Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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12 August 2010
21:1465250 A colourful display of panpiper`s outside one of our country`s surviving top name shop`s early this afternoon, and very good they were too. But where was everybody? Has the whole of Dover gone on holiday?
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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12 August 2010
21:2465255othey were very good colin, let down though by one of the act that decided to dance to the music.
he ended up looking like mr bean.
12 August 2010
21:3265260I love m&s
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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12 August 2010
21:3965265It`s nice to see that this store is still with us Melissa, and it would be nice to see them expand if they could. The store still gives that certain bit of class to the British High street. I`ll use it whenever I can, food or clothes.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
13 August 2010
00:2665284Q. "But where was everybody?"
A. Canterbury or Westwood Cross where there are decent shops.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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13 August 2010
07:2865299But if people don't support the shops we do have Sid, why would new ones open here ?
I send round occasional "blind" emails about "Public Information, Up and Coming Events and Local Business News, including ones I receive from M & S.
I include M & S because I want to encourage as many people as possible to shop there - and other local shops, so they don't move out and the High Street dies.
"Blind" emails mean that no one can see your email address, so you can't receive any spam or scam emails from them; if anyone would like to receive them, just email me to let me know.
Roger
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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13 August 2010
09:4165319the food in m and s now is high quality and very affordable compared to how they used to be.
13 August 2010
10:1565327I love m&s at xmas .
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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13 August 2010
11:2265347Oh dear! Am I the only person who thinks that M&S are vastly over-rated.
I hardly ever buy food there as I make 99% of meals myself. Bulk cook and freeze is still my motto
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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13 August 2010
15:2565375Join the club Jan, I try to cook from scratch myself if I've got the time, but without M & S the town will die. I use them for the Christmas food shop & generally for clothing. You can't beat them for customer care, second to none.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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13 August 2010
15:4165384surely you have never purchased clobber from a high street chain barry?
what happened to your savile row taylor and that bloke injermyn street that always knocked out your silk sirts?
sound like the family pile is diminishing.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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13 August 2010
15:5365388M&S over here have great outlets in all the 12 parishes.The food is reasonably priced and they even put close to sell by dates up for reduced prices at the end of the evening.A practice that has ceased in mainland UK. They are usually on the garage forcourt with a cash dispensing machine and they don't close til 7pm.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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13 August 2010
15:5565389intressting that m&s do melkinis.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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13 August 2010
16:5465395Colin!!! Marks and Sparks clothes are - at least almost - exclusively CHINESE!
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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13 August 2010
16:5465396Chao main
Guest 670- Registered: 23 Apr 2008
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14 August 2010
09:4765442True Alexander and when I was in Sri Lanka one of the locals pointed to some containers and told me that they contained womens underwear for M&S. He said that they had made been made in the local sweat shops.
14 August 2010
10:1465443Perhaps we could persuade M&S to stop using these country's for manufacturing and add a few more to the list who need our Overseas Aid. That's a good ethical idea.
I wish naive do-gooders would realise that we cannot judge the standards in other places by those we set for ourselves. The world is full of differences and that's what makes it so wonderful. Left to those who beat their breast at anything below our norm, or heaven forgive, just plain different, this planet of ours will rapidly become globalised and stagnant.
Sweat shops are okay, particularly in hot and humid climates, it's natural okay?
Guest 670- Registered: 23 Apr 2008
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14 August 2010
10:3765446Sid, I don't think I challenged the morality of large organisations entering in to contracts for the supply of goods manufactured in third world countries.
Whilst these people are clearly exploited, working in terrible conditions for a pittance, without big multi nationals they would starve. Please do not label me a naive do-gooder i've been round this world myself and can see the arguments from both sides but thanks anyway for informing me that some countries are hot and humid, you learn something everyday.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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14 August 2010
10:5365453many big western companies do set minimum standards for their manufacturers to stick to.
not always enforced of cours but it does show that ordinary people do care about the plight of the poor workforce in the third world.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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14 August 2010
15:1665478Dave1, no worry, I think I was meant! Still, Sid, may-be it contributes to explaining why 2.5 million British people are unemployed, that is, the official figure, the real one probably much higher! People who are unemployed in their own Country tend to think of their own immediate financial needs, and couldn't give a hoot for the financial problems of sweet shops in Sri Lanka! At least, that is my maxim and attitude, and I really see to it that I get the odd tenner here and there as self-employed, but it really is difficult to find anyone prepared to have work done, as many people are broke, bust, just about getting to their last penny before the next salary comes in, and the next monthly expense.
I for one don't give a hoot for the financial problems of Sri Lanka or Europe, can't afford to, sir (or Sire?).
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.