I would like to tell you out shopping in the United Kingdom. Marks and Spencer is Britain's favourite store. Tourists love it too. It attracts great variaty of customers from house towives to millionaires. Princess Diana, Dustin Hoffman and the British Prime-minister are just a few of its famous customers. Last year it made a profit of 529 million pounds. Which is more than than 10 million a week.<br>It all started 105 years ago when a young Polish immigrant Michael Marks had a stall in Leeds market. He didn't have many things to sell: some cotton, a little wool, lots of buttons and a few shoelaces. Above his stall he put the now famous notice: "Don't ask how much - it's a penny." Ten years later he met Tom Spencer and together they started Penny stalls in many towns in the North of England. Today is 564 brances of Marks and Spencer all over the world: in America, Canada, Spain, France, Belguim and Hungary. ...
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