{"id":356,"date":"2011-02-18T12:18:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T12:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/?p=356"},"modified":"2011-02-18T12:18:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T12:18:48","slug":"john-lewis-reports-sale-slowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/02\/18\/john-lewis-reports-sale-slowdown\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lewis reports sale slowdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The John Lewis Partnership, which is regarded as a barometer of British retailing, today reported a further fall in weekly sales.<\/p>\n<p>The renowned employee-owned chain said department store sales grew 1.4% to \u00a349.8 million in the week to 12 February \u2013 it represented the fourth consecutive week of slow sales following the VAT hike on 4 January.<\/p>\n<p>It follows a 1.2% gain in the previous week and two declines in the last two weeks of January.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, sales at its Waitrose supermarket chain grew 5.4% to \u00a396.6 million in the week to 12 February \u2013 boosted by purchases for Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>The luxury chain is one of the UK\u2019s fastest growing supermarkets and is in the midst of a major expansion programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The John Lewis Partnership, which is regarded as a barometer of British retailing, today reported a further fall in weekly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}