John Lewis sees sales fall February 24th, 2008

John Lewis followed up its positive Christmas period trading performance with the news that last week saw the biggest sales drop in almost a year. A director blamed the downturn on the ‘unusually’ warm weather and not read too much into the figures as longer erm trading prospects remain positive.

The claims of warmer weather are supported by met office figures which show February temperatures being 1.2 degrees higher than average. Maybe John Lewis should expand its northern operations as its been cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey up here!