Comments on: Do Someone A Favour http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/06/do-someone-a-favour/ Giving you your daily blog fix Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:34:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ed the Editor http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/06/do-someone-a-favour/comment-page-1/#comment-647 Ed the Editor Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:56:15 +0000 http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/03/06/do-someone-a-favour/#comment-647 Interesting post, Mike. As a cynic, i did a study of M&S a few years ago and concluded, they were light years ahead of the competition with their stock control and logistics, but on the downside, I would say, never do business with M&S unless you have plenty of other customers. They perfected the classic bait and trap - building up orders till suppliers had to invest to keep up, and then M&S turned round and dropped their prices to the supplier. Of course the suppliers were naive or greedy or both, but M&S did very well at the expense of many firms. Interesting post, Mike. As a cynic, i did a study of M&S a few years ago and concluded, they were light years ahead of the competition with their stock control and logistics, but on the downside, I would say, never do business with M&S unless you have plenty of other customers.

They perfected the classic bait and trap – building up orders till suppliers had to invest to keep up, and then M&S turned round and dropped their prices to the supplier. Of course the suppliers were naive or greedy or both, but M&S did very well at the expense of many firms.

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