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Lucysgirl · 02-01-2015, 22:15

I can more or less pinpoint Spring 1999 when they stocked the women's section with black clothes as the year I stopped regularly entering M&S. I thought it had been on the whim of the manager so drove to Blackburn and was met with a massive wall to wall sea of black - very impressive if you're not wanting to reflect the colours and joys of burgeoning Spring. I notice their new store will only be selling food. The penny must have dropped that nobody is willing to pay more expensive M&S prices for exactly the same foreign imported clothes stocked in neighbouring shops.

If anyone has seen an arrow on a signpost on any Accrington Road with the words "Town Centre" or "Shopping Centre" you've got better eyesight than me. All County Council Highway Departments have got more say on local roads than the people who have to use them. I'm sure the LCC are really pleased with themselves that their blueprint for the runoff traffic from the M65 to flow freely through Accrington via Eastgate and Burnley Road without being tempted to stop at any shop window display has been so successful.

On the face of it, it doesn't seem that any town councillor in the last 4 decades has had any business acument because all they've done is kill off what was once quite a successful little market town.

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Lucysgirl Registered User Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Baxenden Posts: 293 Liked: 39 times Rep Power: 0	Re: M&S Accrington I can more or less pinpoint Spring 1999 when they stocked the women's section with black clothes as the year I stopped regularly entering M&S. I thought it had been on the whim of the manager so drove to Blackburn and was met with a massive wall to wall sea of black - very impressive if you're not wanting to reflect the colours and joys of burgeoning Spring. I notice their new store will only be selling food. The penny must have dropped that nobody is willing to pay more expensive M&S prices for exactly the same foreign imported clothes stocked in neighbouring shops. If anyone has seen an arrow on a signpost on any Accrington Road with the words "Town Centre" or "Shopping Centre" you've got better eyesight than me. All County Council Highway Departments have got more say on local roads than the people who have to use them. I'm sure the LCC are really pleased with themselves that their blueprint for the runoff traffic from the M65 to flow freely through Accrington via Eastgate and Burnley Road without being tempted to stop at any shop window display has been so successful. On the face of it, it doesn't seem that any town councillor in the last 4 decades has had any business acument because all they've done is kill off what was once quite a successful little market town.