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John Lewis celebrates a bumper week



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Published Date: 27 December 2006
RETAIL giant John Lewis is celebrating after notching up a bumper week of sales in the run-up to Christmas.
The firm shattered its own trading record in the seven-day Christmas countdown.

Sales hit £94.3 million, beating the same week in 2005 by 16.3 per cent.

Gareth Thomas, retail operations director at John Lewis, said: "Last week was a big surprise to everybody.

"We never normally take record sales in the week before Christmas.

"It shows how last-minute some shoppers had left their Christmas shopping.

"We had record sales of cosmetics, perfume and women's lingerie.

"These tend to be bought by men as they don't require too much imagination."

However experts believe fewer were shopping this year because of factors like internet retailing, supermarkets "muscling in" on non-food products and rising domestic fuel bills.



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  • Last Updated: 27 December 2006 11:50 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

KTCB41,

27/12/2006 15:38:12

John Lewis are great, it's their snooty arrogance that does it. They don't have a sale they have a "clearance". Most of the stuff in the clearance is a "special purchase" but they only bother to make special purchases at this time of year and their buyers take the rest of the year off and we get the normal stuff and their normal price.

If they made a effort to make special purchases for the rest of the year it would be even better we wouldn't have to rush up to the clearance.


 

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