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Chat => General => Topic started by: oldspice on March 26, 2010, 02:26:30 pm

Title: Brands at M&S
Post by: oldspice on March 26, 2010, 02:26:30 pm
My M&S is full of branded goods!

I came across Heinz soup, Cadbury Flake, Jacobs Cream Crackers! What is happening? If I want to buy branded goods at that price I'd go to Waitrose! I want M&S to stay brand free.

What do others think?
Title: Re: Brands at M&S
Post by: Forth Bridges on March 26, 2010, 07:38:31 pm
My M&S is full of branded goods!

I came across Heinz soup, Cadbury Flake, Jacobs Cream Crackers! What is happening? If I want to buy branded goods at that price I'd go to Waitrose! I want M&S to stay brand free.

What do others think?

M&S has done this because a number of customer would like to by some branded goods, its only the most bog stranded of all products that will be put on self
Title: Re: Brands at M&S
Post by: goldencup on March 28, 2010, 09:06:26 am
Bog stranded?????
Title: Re: Brands at M&S
Post by: oldspice on March 28, 2010, 12:51:30 pm
Yea, I think that's when you go to a unfamiliar town in Scotland and find they don't have any loos.
Title: Re: Brands at M&S
Post by: goldencup on March 29, 2010, 10:06:08 pm
 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Brands at M&S
Post by: smurfboy on March 30, 2010, 03:39:39 pm
I heard about this ages ago, but it only just seems to be kicking in. The theory behind it is that while most people who shop at M&S food do so because they like their products and its reputation for quality, brand loyalty kicks in for certain products (Heinz Ketchup and Kellogg's Cornflakes were two of the brand highlighted). If M&S stock these too, the customer doesn't have to go elsewhere to complete their shopping.

While it's an intriguing idea and I can see the thinking behind it, I'm not convinced it will work. I'd wager that very few people do their 'big shop' at M&S, so will have purchased things like their favourite brand of coffee when doing that. I can see people shopping in M&S thinking 'ooh, I need some ketchup actually' and grabbing the Heinz bottle, but if it hadn't been there would they really have gone to the trouble of going elsewhere to get it - or would they simply have thrown the M&S version into their basket?
Title: Re: Brands at M&S
Post by: goldencup on March 31, 2010, 03:12:41 pm
The latter...
Title: Re: Brands at M&S
Post by: loulou on April 10, 2010, 09:18:43 pm
and how does that make you feel GC?
Title: Re: Brands at M&S
Post by: goldencup on April 11, 2010, 12:28:06 pm
Lazy or time-poor depending how you look at it!