The Latest Breaking News from John Lewis

Black Friday is on the way, but these beauty deals are worth snapping up now

Designer says soulless structures make people stressed and lonely as he launches book and campaign

Supermarket said to be considering third-party deal after share of UK market falls

With the hardware and homeware retailer’s last stores closing, devoted regulars say they will miss it dearly

The ex-civil servant took some tough decisions at the retail chain, but hired ‘theory’ people when she needed to get to grips with the detail, say insiders

Is saving John Lewis the toughest job in retail?

Ellie Muir looks at the story behind one of the more surprising looks of the year

The festive season’s most sumptuous scents

John Lewis is a doughty symbol of London retail, but that does not guarantee it a bricks-and-mortar future. Gamages on Holborn traded in everything from toys to supplying the army with catapults during the First World War, but was an anachronism in swinging London by the Seventies, while Dickins &…