Wednesday, April 18, 2012

M&S suffers slump in clothes sales after it ran out of woollens in freezing February

As the winter chill hit in February the high street giant ran out of women's jumpers. The Mirror has estimated the blunder lost it $5million of sales.The chain flogged 100,000 of its popular jumpers and cardigans ¨C but boss Marc Bolland said it could have sold three times more.He said: "We don't want to blame the weather but February, in particular, was extremely cold and we didn't have enough knitwear."His admission came as M&S announced general merchandise ¨C which includes clothes and homeware ¨C dropped 2.8% in 13 weeks to the end of March.The chief executive also predicted M&S could have sold another 20,000 in its Autograph range. The chain failed to estimate the popularity of new products, such as printed blouses, and items like ballet pumps which sold 100,000 pairs, 76% more than last year.Women who are busty also fall in this category.

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