Two of our local lady members are both upset by M and S redesigning their Llandudno store. And I am the last to disagree with them. Apart from anything else I hardly ever go in any of their stores.
But, in fairness to M and S, I think I should just mention a couple of facts. I am guessing here but I imagine that M and S have a full time team of sub contractors covering the whole of the country with refurbishments. So, some store has to be done in the peak summer weeks. I find it inconcievable that M and S will not have considered the fact that Llandudno is a summer seasonal town before they decided to go ahead. They havent got to the retail position they occupy by not noticing things like that. Its just that the summer footfall is
greater in, shall I say, Chester.
Now to something factual, something I have seen with my own eyes every evening for the last three weeks. At around 7.15 every evening there are anything up to twenty assorted white vans with all sorts of names on them parked outside M and S. And anything up to 30/40 high visability coated, safety helmeted, goggled etc subbies waiting outside to start their hard days night.
I suppose the only alternative would have been to close the store down completly. Mike