The institution otherwise known as the John Lewis Partnership

John Lewis was founded in 1928. It currently employs 83,000 staff and has a turnover of over £10 billion a year.

In September 2018 John Lewis announced that their profits have fallen by 99% (from £83m to £1.2m), their first pretax loss in over a decade.

Chairman (Sir Charlie Mayfield) has already partly blamed Brexit for this for their disappointing figures. Dominic Raab criticized the chain for these comments.

Charlie Mayfield, said the main reason for its fall in profits was the £40m cost to its department stores of matching twice as many discount extravaganzas than in the same period last year. The results had been hit by heavy discounting at other retailers, which forces its department stores to lower prices under their signature “never knowingly undersold” pledge.

The company also added that the “level of uncertainty facing consumers and the economy, in part due to ongoing Brexit negotiations” made it difficult to forecast trading for the next six months but it expected full-year profits to be down.

“I didn’t actually say that Brexit is to blame for our results. But the fact is that sterling is weaker and one of the factors in that is uncertainty, I hoped not to see a no-deal Brexit, that would be a very bad outcome for the UK and the consequences are extremely unpredictable.”

Despite rumours that John Lewis has spent £5m on hiring Elton John for its Christmas ad campaign this year, Mayfield said the department store had not spent “a penny more” than last year on its advertising.

In January 2017 John Lewis promoted Paula Nickolds, who joined the company as a graduate trainee 22 previously, to be the first female managing director in the department store group’s 152-year history. “Paula has got the partnership in her DNA. “She is ferociously bright and a very good people person. She is hugely respected and a woman with outstanding taste,” said one person who knows Nickolds well.

Richard Hyman, the veteran retail analyst, said Nickolds was a great pick to lead the next phase of development at John Lewis because she was an “old fashioned retailer” who was in touch with what customers wanted and would help keep the brand relevant in a tough economic climate. “Anybody can reduce costs if they compromise on quality or service.

It would be a big mistake for John Lewis to jeopardize the single strongest competitive advantage it has which is customer service,” Hyman said.

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.johnlewis.com

Good luck with that. Think I am right in saying that John Lewis has outsourced their complaints handling? Very easy to blame Brexit for everything, perhaps Sir Charlie and Paula should take a look as to what their customers think?

I have been a John Lewis customer for many, many years and have used them primarily for their excellent customer service. Don’t know what the fuck has happened there but looking at the evidence will not be using them again and think it is fair to say that their time is almost up.

John Lewis RIP. Or Mike Ashley?

Nominated by Willie Stroker

SHAKIRA MARTIN

A no-platforming, gentle soy boy cunting please for this hysterical lady , 31 going on 12 , who has taken to the Osborne Comic aka Evening Standard to voice her dismay over Steptoe (Jeremy Corbyn). She worshiped him, she idolised him she gave her “PERSONAL” backing to this wonderful man, but Mistress Martin is now upset with him, to the point where her voice breaks with emotion.

As far as I am concerned if you go to university you should just get on and study so you can try to get a good job to pay back the money we loan you to live on our charity for 3 years while you study feminism and get pissed in the student bars. In short they should just shut the fuck up. Why is a 31 year old still reliving her student days.

Of course she is a remainer and you can read her grievances here, if you have the patience, and reflect what a self important little up her own arse cunt she is:

https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/jeremy-corbyn-young-voters-a4100906.html

Nominated by W.C. Boggs

Game of Cunts more like.
As I don’t want Sky-TV I’ll confess I’ve never watched a second of this steaming pile of shite. But then I don’t have to because every time I pick up a newspaper it contains countless pages which could be devoted to something sensible and not a load of wankery about some invented fantasy world complete with bollockery language all of its own a la JK Cunty. And then it creeps into the Westminster reportage as in “this is all similar to Game of Thrones” as if I give a shit.

I gather it’s ending soon so this is probably a few years overdue.

Well piss off into oblivion then.

Nominated by Isaac Hunt

Munchie Boxes.

“In this particular take on the Scottish delicacy, you get: two battered pizza slices, battered cod, two battered sausages, two battered beef burger patties, some potato fritters, onion rings, chicken nuggets and a large chips.”….all this for £10 !

What a wise way to invest the last tenner of your Giro once you’ve bought your lottery tickets,baccy and White Lightning cider. No need to fart around cooking proper meals when you can just settle down in front of your 56 inch Brighthouse telly and have a “Munchie Box” delivered to your door….and just think,the leftovers’ll do for the bairns’ breakfast in the morning.

Now I’ve got nothing against the odd takeaway,but you can just imagine the kind of person who’ll be buying this heart-attack in a greasy box. Lazy fat Cunts’ll probably be calling an ambulance on their mobile-phones when they wake up the next morning with rancid guts. Too selfish and entitled to take any self- responsibility, they think that it’s their “right” to live as they like on the taxpayers’ Pound.

Fuck them.

Nominated by Dick Fiddler

Barmy as this sounds, I’d like to nominate Macron because I petsonally think he organised for the Notre Dame cathedral to be set alight. I wouldn’t put it past him to do this so that the people of France can get behind him and all the yellow vesters will just stay at home. Well it wouldn’t be the first time in history that something like this has happened i.e. Nazis burning the Reichstag for their own gain. I smelled a poisson rouge when I heard Macron had popped by the Cathedral at midnight to say ‘Oui, we will rebuild.”

Even if you all think it’s unlikely that Macron did order this act of arson, don’t let that stop us having a moaning session about him. Plus this might be one of the last opportunities to spread conspiracies due to the EU’s new internet laws.

Nominated by Cuntologist

Now I understand why Brexit was delayed. There’s now an opportunity to get a massive EU heritage grant for the rebuilding – using British money.

Add that to your thirty billion divorce deal.

Come on, Nigel. There has to be an angle here you can exploit…

Nominated by Dioclese