Marks and Spencer is making an incredible change to 180 stores that will revolutionize clothes shopping

MARKS and Spencer is preparing its dressing rooms with self-checkouts to prevent shoppers having to queue twice.

The high street giant plans to roll out self-service checkouts in 180 of its clothing stores by early 2028.

Marks and Spencer store in Westfield Shopping Centre, Stratford, LondonCredit: Getty

It comes despite warnings from M&S chairman Archie Norman that theft is “creeping” among middle-class shoppers due to self-marriage gone wrong.

The retailer’s chief operating officer, Sacha Berendji, insisted that staff will be present in fitting areas to ensure customers do not leave without paying for their items.

he said telegraph: “We’d like customers to be able to walk straight into the fitting room without queuing, try on what they’ve chosen, then pay there and walk out…”

He added: “Shaful is a major problem in this countrybut there are things we all do to mitigate some of those losses.”

The new kiosks have already been introduced in 28 newly renovated stores.

Such a type is used elsewhere in the world, including Australia.

Department store Kmart Southland in Melbourne is testing technology that identifies clothes taken in a fitting room and displays them on a screen, it reports Sydney Morning Herald.

Customers can then scan a QR code for details and pricing.

It also allows customers to request different sizes or colors from their changing booth.

In the past 18 months, M&S has opened 31 new stores while spending tens of millions of pounds refurbishing 45 existing ones across London and the South West.

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Larger, staff-operated self-service conveyor houses will also have self-scanning technology for cart stores.

The Fosse Park store has already seen four of its 10 staff-operated conveyor belt delivery houses replaced by six new self-service versions.

All over the road, self-checkout stations are installed at retail stores, with Marks & Spencer, Primark and zara some of the early adopters, telegraph previously reported.

This despite the supermarkets, including Waitrose, Morrisons and Asda, reigning in their use.

In the US, self-service houses remove them at Aim stores amid shoplifting concerns.

M&S is opening the first store of its kind as part of a new trial

MARKS and Spencer are making a huge change by opening a first-of-its-kind store as part of a new venture.

The iconic one British retail opens its first exclusive clothing store in Autumn.

For nearly 100 years, girl sold both clothing and fresh produce.

while girl has operated stand-alone grocery stores since 1987, never sold clothes in stand-alone stores.

However, a recent surge in fashion sales prompted the company to try its first clothing store.

The store will be located in Battersea Power Station in London and will open to shoppers in November.

The new store will feature a curated selection of women’s and men’s apparel, with a focus on premium lines and beauty products.

M&S chief executive Stuart Machin said the trial store would “SHOP WINDOW the best of M&S clothing and beauty at exceptional value’.

The store will feature items such as underwear, £99 cashmere jumpers and pieces from the modern Autograph line.

The new M&S store in Battersea is expected to create around 30 new jobs and recruitment was due to start in September.

If this trial proves successful, M&S opening plans more clothing and beauty stores in the UK.

The new store will co-exist with M&S’s existing food hall at Power Station, which opened in 2022.