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John Lewis and Waitrose merge to become the ‘Future Partnership’
John Lewis and Waitrose is merging its operations from February 2020 to become a single business under a new strategy to be known as the ‘Future Partnership’.
It is all part of their parent company the John Lewis Partnership’s (JLP) strategy to bring the two brands closer together and accelerate its plans to differentiate amid ever-challenging retail conditions.
This involves cutting 75 of its 225 top