SERVES Marks and Spencer right for its downfall. The company's profits have plummeted from a peak of £1.2 billion to only £481 million for the year to April. Only!
This maybe wouldn't have happened if it hadn't sold out and moved production from this country to the cheap sweat shops abroad.
Leigh's Shirt Factory, in Chapel Street, was a proud supplier of M&S goods, but the company turned its back on them and the workforce lost jobs.
The clothing arm has been going downhill ever since, but former Tillies' employees won't be crying in their beer for the firm's fall.
If it wanted to command the same respect from shoppers and remain a huge success, it should have stayed with its local manufacturers and kept on backing Leigh, and Britain.
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