Level playing field for non essential retailers
I visited M&S at Kew the other day to buy food and was surprised to find that the whole store was open to the public not just their food section. The food section could easily be sectioned off from the rest of the store, but clearly wasn’t.Whilst I fully understand why they would want to keep the whole store open, this smacks of unfairness to other retailers, such as clothes shops. At a guess, the food section occupies about 20% of the total retail space, the remaining 80% is devoted to the M&S range of non food items. Why is this considered acceptable whilst the small independents and chain retailers who don’t offer food are unable to open and therefore substantially disadvantaged by this apparent loophole?
Paul Clements ● 2138d1 Comments ● 2138d