John Lewis to replace weekly sales updates with twice-yearly ones

Struggling retailer’s weekly data was used by City analysts to gauge high-street conditionsThe struggling John Lewis Partnership is to stop publishing its weekly sales figures and said it would in future provide updates on its trading only every six months.The decision to keep a lid on its sales figures – which have detailed the performance of the department stores and the Waitrose supermarket chain by department compared with the previous two years – comes as the group’s