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JOhn lewis

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wallopyCOD · 25/10/2005 14:50

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)

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hoxtonchick · 25/10/2005 17:09

love john lewis. esp the basement in oxford st. so much kitchen equipment i didn't know i needed.... also like the free delivery & 2 year warranty on all big electrical stuff. and the fact they always deliver when they say they will. oh god, & i'm only 30 .

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wallopyCOD · 25/10/2005 17:17

i Know
they didnt have my waffle maker as advertised itnheir own chuffin literature

its great btw

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wallopyCOD · 25/10/2005 17:17

here

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hoxtonchick · 25/10/2005 17:18

i so don't need one of those... been to ikea today for necessary purchases of junk.

wilbur · 25/10/2005 17:21

When I get more cupboard space in the kitchen, I will be getting a waffle machine immediately. I bought shop made waffles for celebratory breakfast after ds2's arrival and they were rubbish.

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saadia · 25/10/2005 17:33

My mum used to love browsing in their fabric dept when we were kids and I remember db moaning that "you know it is really possible to die of boredom". I like all their embroidery gadgets and threads etc and their baby gear dept is super.

puff · 25/10/2005 18:28

wilbur - sooo spooky you should say that about Peter Jones. My last "girlie" shopping trip with my Mum was to Peter Jones to buy her outfit for my wedding. She never bought expensive clothes and she was like a child excitedly rushing about in there, it was one of the best days ever to see her so happy.

She was dead 3 months later, but I've been back in since to sort of relive the memories.

TwoIfBySea · 25/10/2005 20:27

I worked in the JL when it opened in Glasgow but only for a few months as the whole ethos was a bit patronising. Plus the manager of the department I worked in was a bully!

I was always astonished at the mark up on the stuff as we got to see the actual price (I worked in the back rooms, doing admin rather than on the floor but we had to do sales every so often.) There was one customer who phoned up the department next to mine screaming down the phone that their bed had been delivered straight from the suppliers and she paid for JL so she damn well wanted a JL van to deliver. That was about the norm in customer demands as well!

They make you pay for your own crappy uniform as well as the fact the pay is really bad so the bonus is just to bring you up to a living wage. SIL went for a job there after I started and she was offered £8,000 for full-time sales assistant in the kitchen dept!

lucykate · 25/10/2005 20:28

never really been a big JL fan, always found it a bit expensive

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wallopyCOD · 25/10/2005 22:02

the waffle maker is fab
the fact that it sdoes 8 finger shaped ones is its usp

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stripey · 25/10/2005 22:10

they will price match so if you find another product cheaper in another shop they will reduce their price so e.g the price of a TV can change day to day. We bought ours their with a great deal and a 5 year warantee for free.

ladymuck · 25/10/2005 22:14

I thought that they had discontinued they "never knowingly undersold" policy - or is that just in London?

PrincessSmartyPants · 25/10/2005 22:17

Partners have green blood.

bosscat · 25/10/2005 22:32

oh Wilbur that is really moving and I know what you mean. I'm always looking at obviously newly wed lovelies with their lookalike sheila hancock mothers choosing liberty print curtain material and thinking "why the hell isn't my mum buying me curtains?"

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wallopyCOD · 25/10/2005 22:34

lol at sheila hancovk

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aloha · 25/10/2005 22:36

Somebody said that in case of nuclear attack they'd head for Peter Jones, because you know nothing really bad could happen to you there.

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wallopyCOD · 25/10/2005 22:37

yes wilbur htink thats almost the most understatedly moving thing i have ever read on here

still think of you when i read winnie to ds2 though

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wallopyCOD · 25/10/2005 22:37

i want to camp out at our "waitrose food and home" for hte night

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bosscat · 25/10/2005 22:38

she bought me a rice cooker once. but it wasn't from john lewis. she thought it was when she took it back but it was from currys!!!! honestly you just can't take someone like that to john lewis can you.

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wallopyCOD · 25/10/2005 22:38

lol

fraud!

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ladymuck · 25/10/2005 22:46

Hmm if you tried Peter Jones schoolwear department I would say that absolutely nothing will happen to you there at all. Certainly no sales.

SueW · 26/10/2005 08:30

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magicfarawaytree · 26/10/2005 08:42

ditto love it - customer services brilliant.

magicfarawaytree · 26/10/2005 08:43

esp for baby stuff - we all know how flimsy pushchairs are and jl very good at after customer services that some baby suppliers are not.