All Waitrose & Partners articles – Page 18
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NewsJohn Lewis Partnership half-year losses mount
John Lewis Partnership plunged to a £25.9m loss in its first-half and total sales fell 1.2% over the period as shoppers shunned big-ticket buys.
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NewsJohn Lewis revenues fall despite record homeware sales
John Lewis & Partners’ weekly sales declined despite its own-brand homeware range registering its “biggest week” this year.
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NewsJohn Lewis Partnership sales continue to fall
John Lewis Partnership’s total weekly sales continued to decline as customers avoided the shops to enjoy the last of the warm weather.
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NewsJohn Lewis sales fall despite warmer bank holiday weather
John Lewis Partnership’s weekly sales figures were down year on year, despite record-breaking temperatures over the recent bank holiday weekend.
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NewsSupermarkets slammed for offering ‘dodgy’ pricing deals
Supermarkets have been slammed for continuing to offer “dodgy” special offers and discounts, despite the introduction of government rules designed to stamp out such deals.
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NewsWaitrose sales fall amid changeable weather
Waitrose’s total weekly sales fell across the board last week as changeable weather altered people’s shopping behaviour.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Sustainable retail – do shoppers love it or hate it?
Unilever has warned that it will sell off brands that do not ‘contribute positively to society’. Retail Week analyses what effect this will have on the wider retail sector.
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NewsJohn Lewis seeks blueprint to reconcile robots and humans
Department stores and grocery group John Lewis Partnership aims to find a formula for how robots and people should best interact as machines become ever more prominent participants in everyday life.
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NewsWaitrose to extend refillables trial after initial success
Waitrose is set to extend a packaging trial to three new stores, after the success of its ‘Unpacked’ refillables concept in Oxford.
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NewsSupermarket sales decline for first time in two years
Grocery sales have declined for the first time since June 2016, according to the latest data from Kantar Worldpanel.
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NewsWaitrose offloads seven stores putting 700 jobs at risk
Waitrose & Partners is to pull down the shutters on seven branches as it focuses on profitability, affecting almost 700 employees.
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NewsJohn Lewis’ own-brand fashion label boosts sales
John Lewis Partnership posted an increase in its weekly sales figures bolstered by sales of its own-brand products and continued clearance offers.
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NewsJohn Lewis sales jump driven by fashion clearance
John Lewis’ sales jumped last week off the back of strong results across its fashion range, but Waitrose struggled across its categories.
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NewsTrafficking gang used slaves to supply top UK grocers
Retailers including Tesco, Marks & Spencer and Asda were supplied goods from supply chains that used slaves from the UK’s largest human trafficking network.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Is a Halloween Brexit retail’s worst nightmare?
As the two remaining candidates for the Conservative Party leadership both pledge to leave the EU on October 31 come what may, retailers are growing increasingly anxious about the Halloween deadline.
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OpinionOpinion: JLP must beware death by a thousand cuts
John Lewis partners have been dealt a blow by the news that some of them will lose their partnership status – and thousands of pounds each year.
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NewsWeekly sales rise at John Lewis department stores
Sales at John Lewis department stores rose 3.8% last week, when fashion performed best.
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NewsWaitrose drivers to take John Lewis returns in efficiency push
Waitrose drivers are to collect returns for stablemate department store chain John Lewis as the John Lewis Partnership creates efficiencies across the business.
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OpinionLeader: Tumultuous times demand unconventional thinking
The surprise appointment of Ofcom boss Sharon White to succeed Sir Charlie Mayfield as chair of the John Lewis Partnership was unforeseen, but not unwelcome.
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NewsJohn Lewis merges home improvement businesses
John Lewis & Partners is to merge its home improvement businesses Home Solutions and Opun as part of a push to “create a truly differentiated home improvement offer”.