{"id":13882,"date":"2014-03-07T12:03:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T11:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=13882"},"modified":"2014-03-08T00:05:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T23:05:55","slug":"john-lewis-overtakes-marks-spencer-in-the-battle-for-the-consumer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=13882","title":{"rendered":"John Lewis overtakes Marks &#038; Spencer in the battle for the consumer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the crisis at the Co-operative Bank, it&#8217;s great to see another co-operative, the John Lewis Partnership doing so well. It does not have as many stores or as high profits as Marks &amp; Spencer, but it does now have a higher turnover and a much better appreciation of consumer needs.<\/p>\n<p>As a partnership. John Lewis awards an annual bonus to all its staff and everyone receives the same percentage award. This year it is 15% which is equivalent to about eight weeks pay. You can read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2014\/mar\/06\/john-lewis-overtakes-marks-spencer-high-street\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of my younger brothers works for John Lewis &#8211; something to do with supply chain management. He suggested we have dinner this evening. I guess he&#8217;ll be paying then \u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the crisis at the Co-operative Bank, it&#8217;s great to see another co-operative, the John Lewis Partnership doing so well. It does not have as many stores or as high profits as Marks &amp; Spencer, but it does now have a higher turnover and a much better appreciation of consumer needs. As a partnership. John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-matters","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13888,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13882\/revisions\/13888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}