Sorry but its time to wake up - this is 2014, this store has not made a profit for many many years. Shopping habits are changing. M&S have tried to make the store profitable by changing the focus. The store is not economically viable and should close.
M&S is doing the right thing here - none of the staff are being made redundant as all have been offered alternative positions in the company.

Woolwich is just one of the 15 or so store marked for closure once their leases are up for renewal or it becomes viable to close the property.

Please be assured that M&S will be opening many more stores this year than it is closing.

#21: mark38 - Save M&S Woolwich

Mark 38 those that have signed this are awake.  Have you heard of something called crossrail and the royal arsenal development representing investment measured in billions which mean a huge commercial opportunity for the future of Woolwich which is what we care about.  If you havent heard of these projects I suggest you look them up and see what benefits they will bring to SE18. Do you think a company like Tesco would have spent tens of millions In Woolwich if they didn't believe it was economically viable.

As for the staff hopefully M&S will take care of them because whenever I shop in the store they work tirelessly in a really difficult store environment so deserve to be looked after.

As for your other comments you seem to have inside knowledge on M&S plans to close more stores 15 or so you say.  If that is true then its disappointing that your company is more interested in shutting stores than investing in the High streets that made your company what it is today.  There is a bright future for Woolwich and if M&S choose to pull out it will be their loss.

#21: mark38 - Save M&S Woolwich

This is an uncalled for comment on a petition that is  about saving a store. You sound like someone who works for M and S and seem to be justifying the closure.  M and S should look at medium term trends not short term one's.

 

The Woolwich store is always busy because of the outlet part, but it would be busier if the store was brought in to the 21st century. Obviously that costs money, but I think like with South Shields, Chatham, Folkestone, Margate, and soon to be Gravesend, Redcar, and Lewisham with part closure, this smacks of saving money because M and S are concerned with short term profit.  If Marc Bolland reads this, it would have made a good M and S simply food. Shame on Marks and Spencer.