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M&S First Self-Service Shopping System
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M&S Woodgreen 1948

In 1948 M&S became the first company in Britain to trial self-service food shopping. The experiment at the Wood Green store in London was a great success, despite the problems caused by rationing, and having to employ staff to package food before it went on sale © M&S Company Archive