JOhn lewis

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now i love it BUT as i walked around it yestreday i thought:

someof hte stuff there is really expensive
surely if yo have loads of money you shop at flasher places?

also are allt he staff robots?

whya re they obsessed with labels? ( as in price labels)

i go there because they have great baby feeding and changing rooms and a fab cafe.

but also they often - surprisingly - have quirky interesting stuff that you don't see elsewhere. i have got great fabric, stationery, socks and kitchen items there that are v. funky not blah.

As a partner you can stay at any of their 4 holiday places which are like hotels for about £18 per night Bed, breakfast and evening meal. They are at the Lake District, Brownsea Island, Odney and Leckford

I once fainted in JL in Bluewater and the staff were excellent

I like John Lewis.

I am 40 so I am supposed to.

And after 25 years they give you a 6 month paid sabbatical

Used to work almost next door one until 17 years ago... Came back to Ireland, still no John Lewis, but when there is something I need I know they'd have it. Comforting is the exact word!

I think as far as retailers go, JLP is probably the best to work for.

25 bloody years?

if you work for the national trust you get a christmas pudding every year after you retire! lol

Lovely shop but gone to the dogs recently. I used to be a partner but wasn't really cut out for it but a couple of good bonuses in the 80s did buy my first car and a teeny weeny little house. They have next to no staff these days and you can't get the level of expertise you used to but if you find anything cheaper elsewhere within a certain radius you should get the stuff at the lower price. They don'tmatch internet prices anymore sadly. Best thing is kids lunchboxes in my Johnlewis Place To eat. £2.50 and they choose 5 things which include rolls fruit cookies crisps jelly cheese and biscuitsetc. I have travelled wide and far comparing but none are as good as mine and some are pretty crap - Bristol do dearer boxes and 1 of the things is a freshness wipe fgs

I know a John Lewis Section Leader of Haberdashery.

If you get a JL credit card, they send you JL vouchers... AND you can use the Waitrose scan and shop facility and never queue at a check out again. Sigh.

there never is a queue in my local Waitrose

caitlin moran funy about them ( and other stuff today)

"Rich list

Coutts Bank announced last week that the price of happiness is £2.6 million. That is what you need to win, earn or steal before you can tell your boss to go jump off a log, and take early retirement.

Coutts calculates that the necessities for early retirement include: a five-bedroom house with two staff; two luxury cars; an apartment and a yacht in the South of France, and two top-end holidays a year. Obviously it does not include the cost of a leather-bound year planner in its list ? it generously gives you one of those when you open an account with an initial deposit of more than £1 million. Really, if Tesco hadn?t claimed the catchphrase, Coutts?s ethos could be summed up with a jaunty ?Every little helps?.

But anyone scanning the above list of necessities will be left with a few questions ? the main one being ?Jeez Louise, when did I become such a cheap date?? Personally, I reckon I could easily scum by with a mere £500,000 ? no cars, no Barbados, no yacht. Just £2,000 a year on black cabs, a mad half-hour in John Lewis?s upholstery department, curry every Friday and the remaining £489,000 on two standard open return tickets, recklessly bought on the day of travel, to Wolverhampton, not changing at Rugby or Crewe."

i feel very comforted in John Lewis

dh loves it because he saw all the managers thanking the check out staff for their hard work (Salisbury Xmas Eve) and now thinks they are terribly caring

ewww they do that publicly to MAKE you think that!
secretly they kick them when you aren't looking

I love John Lewis too .

erm finbars dh has to give out turkeys in w rose
he hates it( i think) an thinks it patronising

dh is too straightforward to realise that

oh yes and the clincher was that all the managers were wearing nice black suits

i would love to work for JL, or waitrose. we have both in town, plus ocado in the next town. 'partner' discounts will be the bonus i think lol.

they ahve to work at bracknell to wear anthign else than a white shirt ffs

i coudl NEVER work for thm
petty crap

well it works on dh

he thinks its all simply marvellous and a cut above tescos (he refuses to shop there)

Love John Lewis and Peter Jones esp since they gave me a 10 yr warranty on my new washing machine. Alway makes me a bit sad in there tho as there are loads of mothers shopping with adult daughters saying things like "but, darling, if you got them in the blue they'd look much better with the bedspread". Makes me miss my mother sooo much, sometimes I just gaze at the furnishing fabrics and feel weepy. No other shop does this to me.

wilbur thats so sad

but think at least ou wont hadvt o have a blue tuble dryer

That's true, and at least I no longer have to wait hours while she searches out the perfect pair of slacks.