Over £1 billion profit a year? Nah, you only need a working CMS at the £5 billion mark

Marks and Spencer is a vast retailing company, which sells uninspiring clothes and nice food. Hundreds of stores, vast profits, and so on. You might expect that such a big company would take some care over their website. And you'd be wrong! In fact, they have revealed lots of old crap which is presumably meant to be internal testing stuff there!

Here is its 'Lunch to Go' web page, linked off the front page of the site. Now, look at the side bar.



Looks reasonable, right? Nothing out of the ordinary?



Okay, things are getting weirder. 'The Lions'? Not sure what it's meant to mean, but it's a broken link. 'Site Stripe - DO NOT DELETE'? Erm, okay... URL1 through 10? Facebook T&C's? Actually, this one is a real page, indicating that M&S may have a Facebook game or something; a terrifying prospect. 'Our Favourites Page 1'? '125', suprisingly, is a real page.



Colin and Delia. Both broken links; I half-expected Delia to be something to do with the chef. myunusualfriends?! Is M&S a niche dating site or something, now?



Yeah, more weirdness. Testing Flash?

Really. Does no-one who works there ever look at this site?