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...“Not just high, but catastrophic” said the Demographic Users Group (DUG), a group of some of the UK’s biggest employers in consumer-facing businesses, from supermarkets chains John Lewis and J Sainsbury’...
...Karen Lewis, head of the union, called the school closures “racist” and “classist”....
...Such a windfall is not enough to move house but some may be spending it on a downpayment on a car, said Keith Lewis from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders....
...Rich Lewis, a director at the firm, says a slight majority chose the former even though the latter is actually the better bet....
...Specifically, whether China has reached what economists refer to as the Lewis turning point (LTP) – named after Arthur Lewis, the theorist who described the phenomenon – when labour markets become squeezed...
...Stores could use the boost; John Lewis, emporium to the middle classes, said sales had slipped for the second week in a row, although the upmarket shirtmaker T.M....
...There was evidence from high street retailers that that might be the case; John Lewis said sales rose in the latest week after it matched a competitor’s price reductions, and supermarket chain Wm Morrison...
...Next’s chief executive said that he expected a pick-up in consumer spending next year and John Lewis, while unveiling sharply falling profit margins, said it was continuing to invest in new stores....
...And John Lewis, retailer of choice for the middle classes, had reasonably solid sales, despite some gloom after the riots....
...“It was a unique week of trade with a lovely party feeling, but inevitably the bank holidays had a detrimental effect on footfall,” John Lewis said, unveiling a drop of 9.2 per cent for sales in that week...
...John Lewis, purveyor to the middle classes, registered a smart bounce in sales with growth in some outlets rising year on year by double digits. The price manufacturers pay for raw goods fell sharply....
...John Lewis wants to open 10 stores in city centre high streets. Not only is that good news for flagging town centres, but good news for the economy; business investment packs a punch....
...noting that sales in June were also boosted – probably temporarily – by an unusually early start to summer sales at some of the nation’s largest retailers including Marks and Spencer, Debenhams and John Lewis...
...After outperforming most of the retail sector in 2009 and 2010, John Lewis is now seeing sluggish sales since its new financial year began in February....
...That is hardly news to John Lewis, purveyor to the middle classes: after two weeks of falling sales, it reported a slight rise....
...“This was a fifth successive week of muted sales for John Lewis sales,” said Howard Archer, economist at IHS Global Insight....
...On Friday, John Lewis, the department store group that is regarded as a bellwether, reported a fifth consecutive week of lacklustre sales....
...“The slowdown in John Lewis sales is particularly notable as the company has been clearly outperforming the retail sector as a whole for some time.”...
...John Lewis, the department store chain whose loyal, middle-class shopper base did not abandon it even through the worst days of the recession, reported that the value of sales in its latest week of trading...
...John Lewis, the department store chain whose customers remained loyal even during the worst of the recession, has been reporting very soft increases in weekly sales from its premises open for more than a...
...Vicky Redwood, economist at Capital Economics, noted that other recent indicators of sales volumes from the British Retail Consortium and from John Lewis, the department store chain, suggested shoppers had...
...John Lewis – to date the most durable of retailers during – reported another week of tepid sales. Morrison, the supermarket, also warned something had happened to the consumer mindset since January....
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