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// M&S has opened a new idea shop at the Roaring Meg retail park in Stevenage
// The shop options clothing, a market-design and style foodhall with ‘Fill Your Own’ stations, a beauty office, an opticians and a 174-seat cafe
M&S opened a new notion shop in the former Debenhams ‘store of the future’ at the Roaring Meg retail park in Stevenage on Thursday.
The 75,000 sq ft M&S store spans two flooring and residences clothing, foodstuff, kidswear, a attractiveness division, an opticians and a 174-seat cafe.
The foodhall follows M&S’s new market-design and style and involves ‘Fill Your Own’ stations. The retailer said the store would carry a “bigger, greater, fresher browsing experience”.
The shop also has a great deal of checkouts for fast company, a cell Scan & Store solution, which is readily available via the M&S Application, and a click-and-acquire support.
Retailer style specialist John Ryan, editor of Newstores, was impressed by the retail store. He reported: “This definitely does glimpse like a large slice of a doable way ahead for the retailer, specially as regards clothing and property.
“What marks this out both equally as a retailer of the upcoming and as diverse from practically any other branch that could possibly be talked about is that it feels like one particular business.”
“If Marks & Spencer can draw classes speedily from what has been done listed here and just take it somewhere else, its garments and dwelling will be in with a genuine preventing likelihood.”
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