Hot weather cools John Lewis sales
The retailer said like-for-like sales growth across its 33 stores and website dropped to 0.1 per cent in the week to 24 September, against a 15.1 per cent increase a year earlier.
Nat Wakely, director of selling operations, said fashion unusually failed to beat its performance last year – with a 0.7 per cent decline compared with a 3 per cent increase – but this was down to the effects of the higher temperatures.
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Hide Ad“The knitwear figures tell it all in terms of the weather when compared year-on-year,” Wakely said.
The weekly sales update revealed a 1.4 per cent year-on-year dip in sales at John Lewis’s Edinburgh store.