Comments by "May L" (@MeiinUK) on "John Lewis: can kinder capitalism compete in ruthless retail? | FT Film" video.

  1. But most young people had cars as well to drive to and it gives them the freedom. If some of those stores either created a nice space to have kind of like co-working spaces or gatherings. And young millennials are very green conscious. M&S wear are now cross generational move. I.e. bridging the age gap and it's modern. So that allow the average family to cut costs ?.... It needs a good strategy for the young generation though.
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  2. M&S changed all their stores too. It looks like an Asda which I don't like. Their offerings changed to a lower price point as well. M&S got their food everywhere. In service stations. In small local middle class stores. Small but near good schools. Near good families. It's like a convenience store but it still serves like a big store. So they didn't go for a flag ship.. but they played around with their strategies. Definitely a store near car run routes. Drop offs for school runs. Has school kits to grab as well. Etc etc. Maybe they didn't trust a lot of big data but decent small local knowledge...
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  3. It has to... cos it is the only way..... for humanity.
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  4. Personally, I think John Lewis should've not spend so much money on buildings, or whatever, but literally take Burberry off the footsie and buy it ! (And then relicense back their deals back to the likes of Japan.. like they used to... and create jobs again.... and rerun some of the mills. But to turn it back round.... and turn those factories into green ones.)
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  5. Buy a part of Burberry and have custom made items or only those items that they could buy from JL's stores... (that brings in tourists).... and then re-assess if they could maybe also then expand into countries like Japan ?... So.... Cos those who loves the British brand, would always come back. And there isn't anything that is more than JL.
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  6. They can only also turn this thing around too, if they also in some ways connect with Lloyds... and use their cards or whatever... as a service... And then also tap into India.. and open one or two basic stores there instead.. .And leverage. And then to bring in that typical middle class thing.. into both Uber Upper Middle Class of India.. as well as keeping the UK's middle class as middle class. (And people in India reveres classic British fashion and cuttings as well.) And maybe time that JL considers actual TV as well ?... In India, say.
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  7. Imagine if John Lewis provided some form of childcare structures.... "Free coffee with childcare".... That will pick up the millennials... And move forward...
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  8. Companies had to do that, cos we were still trying to recover from the financial crashes.. So saving quite a few million people, is better than not saving anybody... So... And they held their own, to be fair... but it does mean that the rest of us also doesn't survive either? So it feels like everyone is equalised.
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  9.  @leoprg5330  : Nobody shops any more, cos it is too expensive.. and we are all living in mostly HMOs.... and living by hand outs, or by actual low wages.. etc etc etc. It matters not that we watch these form of videos.. it doesn't do anything for the average individual that cannot get out of the matrix. Blue pill, or the red pill ?
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