John Lewis is a chain of department stores in the UK which, alongside grocery stablemate Waitrose, forms the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership. John Lewis was formed in 1846 when its eponymous founder opened a drapery shop on Oxford Street. John Spedan Lewis created the “never knowingly undersold” pledge in 1925 and made early moves to establish the partnership business model. Retail Week provides news, analysis, features and opinion about John Lewis and the department stores sector.
The John Lewis Partnership is turning its back on ambitions to be a player in the build-to-rent housing market as it doubles down on its core retail operations.
Department stores and grocery business John Lewis Partnership is investing in staff pay “above and beyond the requirements of the National Minimum Wage” and well above inflation.
Tesco leads the table of festive recruiters, but the change in John Lewis numbers shows how the retailer is focusing on stores this Christmas
The recruitment platform revealed that jobseeker searches for Christmas roles in the UK were up 28% year on year, the highest level it had seen since comparable data began in 2018.
John Lewis has appointed Anna Milne as its new director of merchandising.
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