Marks and Sparks- not as stuck up as you would think

[The Brain]

Don't supermarkets in the states sell clothing?

but "traditional" supermarkets, like the A&P family of stores or Acme, usually don't carry stuff like clothing.

Explains: Gaga?

[Josquius]

I'm still lost on this notion of selling "buyable" food (re: not stale food) in a place where you would buy clothing.

Maybe not somewhere you`d buy clothing but yes, its pretty normal. Though it hasn`t always been so, certainly I remember when I was a kid Asda didn`t do clothes.

[Admiral Yi]

Yeah, that's true of most supermarkets here as well or it used to be until they started building stores the size of airports.

I actually don't know whether M&S started selling clothes or food first. As far as I remember they've always sold both, though some of their shops are now food only.

Do they have a good selection of tires and hockey pucks?

[garbon]

I'm still lost on this notion of selling "buyable" food (re: not stale food) in a place where you would buy clothing.

Maybe not somewhere you`d buy clothing but yes, its pretty normal. Though it hasn`t always been so, certainly I remember when I was a kid Asda didn`t do clothes.

As was said earlier, quite different here apart from the recent rise of super walmarts and targets - although still the clothing quality leaves much to be desired.

I think that's why I liked Sainsbury better as the few I went to were food only joints - though I believe that's also not generally the case. (at least not per their website)

[Sheilbh]

I think that's why I liked Sainsbury better as the few I went to were food only joints - though I believe that's also not generally the case. (at least not per their website)

Generally small urban supermarkets just do food (that's what M&S Simply Food are like too) the bigger generally out of town ones have both.

M&S is weird, they don't do big out of town supermarkets.  They're like mini department stores.  The one in Dorchester, where I am at the minute, is half food, set out like a supermarket, and then half clothes and bedsheets and things.  It is odd, they're even decorated like different shops.