September 2024
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Sales at John Lewis department stores have fallen and the retailer has warned that the outlook for consumer spending is “uncertain”. It blamed a “challenging market” for a three per The retailer has been trying to win back customers after a tough few years that has seen it cut jobs and close several stores. years of losses, but also said it would not pay a staff bonus for the second year in a row. And in June the outgoing Chair of the John Lewis Partnership (JLP), Dame Sharon White, insisted the company is “back the second half of the year, which includes the key Christmas trading period. However, announcing the latest results, Nish Kankiwala, Chief Executive of JLP, said that rising sales at Waitrose supermarkets have helped the Partnership – which includes the John Lewis department stores as well as Waitrose – to nearly halve its losses since the start of the year.
John Lewis sales struggle
our transformation plan is working and we expect
This comes after John Lewis recently announced
price pledge, two years after scrapping it. The retailer The new JLP Chair, former boss of Tesco UK, Jason Tarry (inset), joins the company this month.
Anker Innovations’ eufy named UK’s #1 robot vacuum brand Euromonitor, the market research data and analysis
named the UK’s Number One Robot Vacuum one in terms of retail value sales.
provider, recently evaluated all the mainstays that run the spectrum within the robot vacuum category. Its analysis takes into account in-house expertise, publicly available data and insights from industry experts to ensure a solid representation of industry consensus. Since 2016, eufy has been at the forefront of innovation with signature launches, such as the S1 Pro, X10 Pro Omni and X8 Pro (pictured left), combining expertise in smart cleaning. Leveraging more than over 6.38 million products across 59 countries.
“We are delighted that we have been recognised
Faraz Mehdi, General Manager of UK and Ireland. “This is a huge testament to our team and all the retailers that believed in us. We are committed to placing innovation and the needs of our consumers at the centre of everything we do. “With a robust pipeline of innovative products coming through I’m excited to see how eufy can go from strength to strength across robotic cleaning and home security, where we also have a market-leading
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