What's OnShoppingMarks & SpencerM&S has stores in Birmingham and Solihull05:36, 08 Jul 2026M&S has made a big change to food stores in the UK heatwave. M&S, which has stores in Birmingham and Solihull, has invested fridges that can cope with weather as hot as 45C.‌“There is no doubt we were struggling in the nine days of [recent] extreme heat,” Stuart Machin, the chief executive of the food, fashion, beauty and homewares retailer, told shareholders at the group’s annual meeting in London on Tuesday.‌Machin said the group was investing in kit that could cope with 45C heat as the company was “assuming it’s going to get hotter”. He said M&S had invested millions of pounds in increasing the number of security guards employed through a third party, with those workers “trained in how to treat cu