{"id":4099,"date":"2018-11-07T07:32:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T07:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/marks-and-spencer-sales-continue-to-fall\/"},"modified":"2018-11-07T07:32:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T07:32:02","slug":"marks-and-spencer-sales-continue-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/marks-and-spencer-sales-continue-to-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Marks and Spencer sales continue to fall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"M&amp;S store\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/11440\/production\/_104202707_m-s.people.g.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Marks and Spencer has reported falling clothing and food sales and has warned that it sees little improvement in sales this year.<\/p>\n<p>Overall like-for-like sales, which strip out store openings, were down 2.2% for the six months to the end of September.<\/p>\n<p>Like-for-like food sales fell 2.9% and clothing and home sales slid 1.1%.<\/p>\n<p>M&amp;S warned trading conditions for the remainder of the financial year will remain &#8220;challenging&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are expecting little improvement in sales trajectory,&#8221; the firm said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46122177\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Marks and Spencer has reported falling clothing and food sales and has warned that it sees little improvement in sales this year. Overall like-for-like sales, which strip out store openings, were down 2.2% for the six months to the end of September. Like-for-like food sales fell 2.9% and clothing and home &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}