What does John Lewis Partnership’s proposed retail to residential shift entail?

The retail sector was somewhat taken by surprise when the John Lewis Partnership announced last week that it was exploring the possibility of branching out to private rented housing in a post-Covid market.
The plans are a part of five strategic steps for the business to grow, which are: “driven by purpose”, “simplifying how we work”, “strengthening retail”, “expanding into more services”, and “partnering to grow”.
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