With Christmas over for another year and life returning to normal, high street retailers across the country will be tallying up proceeds from the festive season and crossing their fingers that totals hit much needed highs to compensate for a poor year of... Read More
With Christmas drawing ever closer, stores across the UK are in a festive frenzy to achieve the highest possible sales following four years of recession. Yet there are still concerns in the retail industry that economic pressure will see this year’s sales... Read More
Christmas, and the weeks preceding it, is always the busiest time of year for both chain and independent retailers. With consumers formulating lists of gifts and cards to send to friends and family, businesses frantically organising Secret Santa and office... Read More
Gillian Clarke, the National Poet of Wales, has honoured John Lewis with a new poem to mark the third anniversary of its Cardiff branch. Clarke’s tribute is now on display in the department store’s window and she hopes the idea might be extended to other... Read More
In the current economic climate, many large retail groups who, in the years prior to 2008, posted staggering profits annually are now struggling to find their footing with consumers.... Read More
Movehut recently reported that Marks and Spencer is to launch its own current bank account.... Read More
John Lewis is planning to open a pop-up shop in Exeter to give customers a taste of what to expect when their new department stores opens its doors later this year.... Read More
Are you one of the lucky people to have one of the 37 John Lewis commercial properties in your home time? Or like us, do you have at least an hour’s drive to reach a John Lewis store.... Read More
Retail commercial properties have been slammed by a recent study conducted by Weight Watchers, who claim that 34 per cent of women questioned had been made to feel so insecure by a shop assistant... Read More
John Lewis Partnership, who owns both John Lewis and Waitrose, is to launch the Community Matters incentive in John Lewis stores, after it has proven successful in Waitrose commercial properties.... Read More