Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Marks & Spencer
The 20 closest department store retail alternatives to Marks & Spencer, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 12 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Marks & Spencer? The closest matches are Shein, H&M and Target. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Marks & Spencer
Marks & Spencer marksandspencer.com
M&S | Marks & Spencer | Fashion, Home, Beauty, Food & Gifts
Shop on-trend womenswear, quality menswear, home and beauty essentials and mouth-watering food and drink. Order online with free delivery or collection at M&S
Summary by Claude
Online store of the British retailer Marks & Spencer, selling women's, men's and children's clothing, home goods, beauty products, gifts and food, with home delivery or in-store collection.
- Who it’s for
- UK shoppers and international customers
- Business model
- Retail sales
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Marks & Spencer’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Marks & Spencer
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Marks & Spencer, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Women's & Men's Clothing, Shop Online Fashion | SHEIN
From shoes to clothing, from sports equipment to accessories. All fashion inspiration & the latest trends can be found online at SHEIN
Very close cos 0.915 - 02
Swedish multinational clothing-retail company
Very close cos 0.911 - 03
Target : Expect More. Pay Less.
Shop Target online and in-store for everything from groceries and essentials to clothing and electronics. Choose contactless pickup or delivery today.
Very close cos 0.910 - 04
etsy.com
American e-commerce company
Very close cos 0.912 - 05
British retailer
Very close cos 0.908 - 06
John Lewis & Partners | Never Knowingly Undersold
Proudly shaping British life for over 150 years, John Lewis blends timeless tradition with modern living across homeware, fashion, and technology. Discover the difference today.
Very close cos 0.907 - 07
Wayfair.com - Online Home Store for Furniture, Decor, Outdoors & More
Shop Wayfair for A Zillion Things Home across all styles and budgets. 5,000 brands of furniture, lighting, cookware, and more. Free Shipping on most items.
Very close cos 0.907 - 08
OTTO - Mode, Möbel & Technik » Zum Online-Shop
OTTO Online-Shop » Viele Marken ✓ Tolle Angebote ✓ Top Service » Ratenkauf ✓ Kauf auf Rechnung ✓ Altgeräte-Mitnahme ✓ Aufbauservice ✓ Jetzt shoppen!
Very close cos 0.899 - 09
Poshmark: Buy and sell fashion, home decor, beauty & more
Buy, sell, and discover fashion, home decor, beauty, and more
Very close cos 0.900 - 10
fnac.com
French multinational electronics store chain
Very close cos 0.898 - 11
department store chain in the United States
Very close cos 0.897 - 12
chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom
Very close cos 0.894 - 13
Australian online fashion retailer
Very close cos 0.896 - 14
online luxury fashion marketplace
Very close cos 0.896 - 15
American chain of luxury department stores
Very close cos 0.894 - 16
French multinational chain of cosmetics stores
Close cos 0.892 - 17
Walmart | Save Money. Live better.
Shop Walmart.com today for Every Day Low Prices. Join Walmart+ for unlimited free delivery from your store & free shipping with no order minimum. Start your free 30-day trial now!
Close cos 0.894 - 18
Chinese online marketplace owned by PDD Holdings
Very close cos 0.896 - 19
British online fashion and beauty retailer
Close cos 0.893 - 20
Shoes, Sneakers, Boots, & Clothing + FREE SHIPPING | Zappos.com
Fast, FREE shipping on just-landed sneakers, boots, heels & more from your favorite brands. Now that's a win.
Close cos 0.894
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to marksandspencer.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Marks & Spencer uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Marks & Spencer is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- Contentful page source: images.ctfassets.net
- JavaScript frameworks
- Tag managers
- Tealium page source: tags.tiqcdn.com
- Security
- Akamai Bot Manager cookie bm_sz
- CDN
- Akamai header x-akamai-transformed: l - 0 -
- Azure Front Door header x-azure-ref: 20261106T093355Z-178f79cc84cvbpk6hC1AMSqdgs0000000yxg000000…
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT v=spf1 a:production.store.mns.demandware.net ip4:194.221.14.0/24 ip4:…
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 a:production.store.mns.demandware.net ip4:194.221.14.0/24 ip4:…
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS a13-66.akam.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=fVmTYsw6MpsVaS_v7lmnvSEvDkp0MVeeKMD278SjBe0
- Miro TXT miro-verification=9e69bad10aa720e09b6455c33a411bb90ca89817
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Marks & Spencer adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Apple Business · not on marksandspencer.com 19/20
- Microsoft 365 17/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on marksandspencer.com 14/20
- Atlassian · not on marksandspencer.com 13/20
- Adobe · not on marksandspencer.com 11/20
- Akamai Edge DNS 9/20
- OneTrust · not on marksandspencer.com 9/20
- Miro 8/20
- Proofpoint · not on marksandspencer.com 8/20
- DocuSign · not on marksandspencer.com 8/20
- Akamai 7/20
- OpenAI · not on marksandspencer.com 7/20
- Stripe · not on marksandspencer.com 6/20
- Google Workspace · not on marksandspencer.com 6/20
- Next.js 5/20