page_title: Marks & Spencer
section_title: M&S Foodhall (standalone)
hierarchical_section_title: Marks & Spencer / Store formats / M&S Foodhall (standalone)
caption_attribution_description: English: Marks and Spencer, High Street, Banstead, Surrey. A quality supermarket very suitable for this popular and well-heeled suburb. The bus is Arriva London DWS7 (LJ53 NFU), a DAF SB120/Wright Cadet, having a break before heading for West Croydon via Coulsdon on route 166. Banstead is the western terminus of this route on Sundays, but on weekdays a third of buses run through to Epsom Hospital via Epsom (one bus every hour on this otherwise every 20 minute service).
context_page_description: Marks and Spencer Group plc is a major British multinational retailer with headquarters in London, England, that specialises in selling clothing, home products and food products, mostly of its own label. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index, having previously been in the FTSE 100 Index from its creation until 2019.
  M&S was founded in 1884 by Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer in Leeds. M&S currently has 959 stores across the U.K. including 615 that only sell food products, and through its television advertising, asserts the exclusive nature and luxury of its food and beverages; it also offers an online food delivery service.
  In 1998, the company became the first British retailer to make a pre-tax profit of over £1 billion, although subsequently it went into a sudden slump, which took the company and its stakeholders by surprise. In November 2009, it was announced that Marc Bolland, formerly of Morrisons, would take over as chief executive from executive chairman Sir Stuart Rose in early 2010; Rose remained executive chairman until July 2010 and then chairman until January 2011, when he was replaced by Robert Swannell.
context_section_description: M&S launched a convenience format, branded Simply Food in 2001, with the first stores opening in Twickenham and Surbiton. The stores predominantly sell food, however some larger stores also stock a small selection of general merchandise.
  A number of these are run under franchise agreements:
  SSP Group runs the stores at mainline railway stations and airports.
  Moto has stores at 45 of its motorway service stations.
  BP has over 120 petrol stations with Simply Food offerings.
  Orders from M&S accounted for more than half of Uniq's food product supplies to UK retailers in 2010 after several years service as a major M&S food product supplier.
  In 2011 it was noted that M&S were operating express pricing; i.e., charging more in their Simply Food branches than in regular branches. A spokesperson stated that "prices are a little higher than at our high street stores but this reflects the fact that these stores are open longer and are highly convenient for customers on the move".
  The Simply Food brand has been phased out in all stand-alone larger stores since the rebrand in 2015 and the stores have now been branded as "M&S Foodhall."
  In March 2019 M&S announced that they would open more supermarket sized food halls (between 10,000 and 15,000 sq ft.) that would stock their full food range in order to attract more families looking to do a weekly shop. M&S have also lowered the price of over 1000 of their popular lines to compete with their larger supermarket rivals such as Tesco and Sainsbury's.
caption: M&S Simply Food in Banstead, Surrey
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