Waitrose is the food retail division of the John Lewis Partnership where it operates alongside â and increasingly in tandem â with John Lewis department stores. The partnership bought Waitrose in 1937. Waitrose has a reputation for an upmarket food offer with a strong focus on product quality and provenance. Retail Week provides news, analysis, features and opinion about Waitrose and the grocery sector.
Upmarket grocer Waitrose has secured the future of its Hersham store in Surrey by purchasing the freehold of the Hersham Green Shopping Centre.
Waitrose has unveiled a new sci-fi-inspired brand campaign to position itself as the home of food lovers.
As new appointments to retailâs top jobs nearly doubled, UK retail firms picked more women than ever to take leadership positions with many of them first-time CEOs, Retail Week can reveal.
New data has revealed the companies with the happiest workforces, according to participants in WorkLâs Happy at Work Test employee survey.
Waitrose has unveiled plans for a new distribution hub and will begin the process of recruiting for hundreds of new jobs later this year.
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