Dunnes / M&S , cousins ?

Capri

Just looking at Dunnes / M&S websites, not too far off each other apart from M&S stuff being x2/3 times Dunnes prices. And the old St Bernard / St Micheal branding and other similarities I get the impression Dunnes are just shadowing M&S in everything but yet totally unrelated

GingerLily

I guess M&S would be the brand to aspire to for an Irish food and clothing retailer, does Dunnes copy M&S much in clothing? I really hadn't noticed.

I find Marks sizes more accurate than Dunnes and a slightly better quality.

dudara

The old St Bernard branding was quite like M&S at the time, IIRC.

I buy a lot of workwear from M&S. The quality is decent, and it's not too expensive, considering I wear the dresses etc each week.

meeeeh

It's not just Dunes and M&S that are similar, how much variety can there be especially for work staples. But both websites are miles away from Zara for example which I find very easy to navigate despite high number of products.

I don't know how well Dunes are doing on clothing alone but they had biggest grocery market share in Ireland in last three months (Kantar Worldpanel). M&S are struggling at the moment and concentrating on food so I doubt Dunes are trying to emulate them. They are more likely trying to poach customers away from them. I wouldn't be much of a customer of either so I haven't got a clue if it's working.

r93kaey5p2izun

It's funny how different people perceive things differently. I don't see much similarity in the Dunnes/M&S websites and no similarity in their clothes at all. I find the Zara website to be borderline unusable.

Capri

My search on another front was for a simple black short sleeve shirt, Penneys DON'T DO short sleeves ('Only in summer' - WHO wears a black shirt in summer !!) , Dunnes is E12, M&S something like E20. Penneys 'revamped' website is as bad as the original !