 Within a year, the store was looking for ways to manufacture sandwiches at an industrial scale.However, the first pre-packed sandwiches date from well before this.British Home Stores sold pre-packed sandwiches in the 1960s (see the Radio Times 3 November 2018 p. 167), and earlier even than that, Marks and Spencer (Brighton branch) began selling them in the 1950s, and then in the 1960s in the Oxford Street branch, London.