The longest serving MP in Reading has visited a shopper’s favourite store in the town centre.
Matt Rodda, the Labour MP for Reading Central, recently went to the Marks and Spencer in Broad Street to learn about the functioning of the business.
M&S has been a staple in the town centre for many years, with its food store also proving popular with shoppers.
Mr Rodda said: “It was good to visit M&S in Broad Street, to meet staff and to learn more about this important town centre business.
“The store offers a wide range of food and clothing and is a well-known and popular store in our town centre as well as a major employer.
“It was great to meet staff and learn more about their work and wider range of stock.”
He met David Lavington, the store manager, and Dorothy Belcher, who manages the denim section, during the recent visit.
The M&S has been in Broad Street since 1912, a 114-year tenure.
Before that, it established a ‘Penny Bazaar’ in West Street in 1905.
There are eight M&S locations in the Reading area, which includes the M&S Foodhall in Shepherds Hill, Woodley and Lower Earley and the ‘Simply Food’ convenience stores at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, the Three Tuns junction and Tilehurst Road.
This figure includes the two Simply Food locations at the Reading M4 services.
