Marks & Spencer has relocated its store in Weymouth, Dorset, from St Mary Street to Weymouth Gateway Retail Park, creating over 70 new jobs with a heavy focus on its fashion offer.
As well as offering its full Per Una womenswear collection and its Goodmove activewear range, the British high street mainstay has included a denim area showcasing a range of styles – from ‘carrot’ fit to ‘barrel’ leg – while the lingerie section offers shapewear, ‘nursing’ and ‘post-surgery’ bras. Rosie Lingerie, available exclusively at M&S, is also a new addition for Weymouth.
Over in menswear, customers will find M&S’ best-selling Autograph pure Supima cotton performance crew neck T-shirts in a range of colours for £20 each.
Georgia Simpkins-Dowey, Store Manager at M&S Weymouth Gateway, said: “At more than double the size of our St Mary Street store, we can offer the very best of M&S and a much better shopping experience.
“We also have a fantastic range of products, with everything for customers’ weekly shop and delivering that M&S trusted value and exceptional quality.”
The retailer has included a market-style food hall – where customers will find produce from M&S’ Select Farm partners – and an in-store bakery and coffee counter offering barista made hot drinks.
There’s also a hot chicken counter serving up BBQ and butter-basted flavour British rotisserie chicken, as well as M&S’s signature flowers and wine selection.
Additionally, customers can easily collect any online fashion, home and beauty orders via a dedicated click and collect point.
M&S Weymouth Gateway is one of two full-line stores M&S is opening this financial year, alongside 18 new food stores and a number of extensions and renewals across the UK.
Earlier this week, M&S revealed it has completed work on its Pantheon flagship store at 173 Oxford Street in London. The store will operate as its first full-line research and development (R&D) site for fashion, home and beauty.
The British high street retailer unveiled the Pantheon store’s remaining two upper floors on Monday, 13 July, adding its latest menswear, kidswear, lingerie and home collections to the renewed location.
The transformation covers almost 100,000 sq ft and has been completed in stages while the store continued trading. M&S has occupied the building, identified by its green ‘PANTHEON’ lettering, since 1938.
M&S is also set to start work on its Marble Arch flagship redevelopment next year, after it received Government approval for the work in December 2024, after more than three “unnecessary years of delays”. It had first submitted the proposal in March 2021.