John Lewis Partnership (JLP), which operates department store group John Lewis & Partners and supermarket chain Waitrose & Partners, has announced that this will be the last Christmas when it sells Christmas crackers with plastic toys inside. Instead, crackers will be filled with toys made from recyclable materials such as …
Read More »Sales of cooking product up 13% at John Lewis
Total sales at John Lewis & Partners were up 8.5% last week (to Saturday October 19) on the same week last year, as customers shopped promotions across fashion and beauty in-store and online, according to the department store group’s buying director of fashion Christine Kasoulis. She said: “Fashion sales were …
Read More »John Lewis reveals what’s hot, what’s not and what’s next in housewares
John Lewis & Partners has released its annual Retail Report which looks back on sales trends at the department store group over the past 12 months. ‘How We Shop, Live And Look’ analyses internal shopping data from August 2018 to August 2019 to get an insight into the products which …
Read More »John Lewis shares Halloween top sellers
With two weeks to go until Halloween, John Lewis & Partners has shared its top sellers to help kick off this year’s celebrations. The department store group said: ‘With customers increasingly pulling out all the stops for Halloween, wreaths, wall hangings and table decorations are set to be bigger and …
Read More »John Lewis shoppers get into the Christmas spirit
Total sales at John Lewis & Partners were up 11.9% last week (to Saturday October 12) on the same week last year. The department store group’s electricals & home technology buyer director Laurence Mitchell said: “Customers purchased new season items due to cooler weather and enjoyed shopping promotional events across …
Read More »Cookshop sales up 18% at John Lewis
Total sales for John Lewis & Partners were up 4.8% last week (to Saturday September 28) on the same week last year, due to a ‘great customer response’ to the start of its 20% off promotional Home event, which continues until October 6. The department store group’s customer director Craig …
Read More »Home sales at John Lewis down 13.4%
Total sales at John Lewis & Partners were down 12.4% last week (to Saturday September 21) on the same week last year. The department store group said the performance was due to warmer weather impacting sales of new season products. John Lewis & Partners trading director Simon Coble commented: “Home …
Read More »John Lewis is first UK retailer to offer Nestle’s KitKat Chocolatory range
This week John Lewis & Partners will become the first UK retailer to sell Nestle’s KitKat Chocolatory range of bespoke and handmade KitKats including exclusive ‘Best of British’ bars. At a 2,000sq ft pop-up shop in the department store group’s flagship branch on London’s Oxford Street, customers will be able …
Read More »John Lewis weekly home sales down 10.7%
Total sales at John Lewis & Partners were down 6.1% last week (to Saturday September 14) on the same week last year. The department store group’s shop trade director Maggie Porteous said: “Home sales were down 10.7% as we were annualising a competitor price-match event. However, our own-brand House range …
Read More »John Lewis extends Click & Collect service with Co-op
John Lewis & Partners’ Click & Collect service is set to become available in more than 50 Co-op food stores, it has been revealed today (Thursday, September 12). The department store group said: ‘The roll-out of the service to more Co-op shops forms part of our strategy to invest and …
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