1 hour ago Around 200 John Lewis unit could suffer their jobs arsenic the retailer looks to adjacent its in-store wealth speech services and dedicated acquisition wrapping areas.
No last determination has been made but the occupation cuts volition hap successful the autumn if the redundancy plans it is consulting connected are approved.
John Lewis said the determination to adjacent its in-store bureaux de alteration was owed to falling request and that it would determination gift-wrapping services from a specialised country to its tills.
A spokesperson said it would enactment affected unit "throughout the consultation process and enactment redeployment wherever possible".
They added: "As we absorption connected modernising this proposition to conscionable our customers' changing needs, we're proposing to adjacent our in-store overseas speech bureaus arsenic good arsenic our acquisition wrapping service.
"As a result, we're regretfully consulting with partners who presently present these services."
The retailer said customers were progressively ordering overseas currency online and collecting it successful store. It besides said immoderate different customers were choosing alternatively to usage their recognition cards oregon integer payments portion abroad.
It added that the changes to its acquisition wrapping services would marque it much accessible.
The wealth speech closure volition impact 30 shops portion the acquisition wrapping services closure volition impact 25 shops.
The retailer has been going done galore changes nether its chair. Jason Tarry, who took implicit successful 2024 aft a pugnacious fewer years that saw it chopped jobs and adjacent respective stores
It closed its housebuilding limb successful February, successful a determination which besides led to immoderate occupation losses. And, successful March, the retailer said it would beryllium awarding its unit a bonus for the archetypal clip successful 4 years arsenic its profits and income improved.
The bonus had been scrapped during the Covid pandemic, marking the archetypal clip this had happened since 1953.
John Lewis' latest results amusement the concern reported a pre-tax nonaccomplishment of £21m owed to £120m worthy of one-off costs which chiefly related to write-downs successful the worth of aged tech systems.
But underlying profits roseate 6% to £134m. Sales crossed the concern roseate by 5% to £13.4bn.
Sales maturation was higher astatine Waitrose compared with John Lewis. Supermarket income grew by 7% to £8.5bn successful the twelvemonth to the extremity of January compared to a 3% summation to £4.9bn astatine section stores.
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