John Lewis

Advantages: Great range of services
Disadvantages: None

...John Lewis is a department store with 29 shops around the UK. They offer a wide range of high quality goods in departments such as: gifts, lighting, pictures, china and glass, linens, haberdashery, furnishing and fabrics, womenswear, lingerie, beauty, nursery, menswear, audio, toys and kitches/kitchenwear. Within the store they stock not only their own range of goods but also other branded names such as, Jigsaw, Joules, Levi and Warehouse in clothing, Bobbi Brown, Clarins and Clinique in the beauty section and Bose, Apple and Canon in electricals. As you can acertain they sell a wide range of products from knitting needles and wool to high end audio systems. All items are of great quality and if anything falls below the standard you will expect they have a great returns and refund policy with a flexible 28 days. They will even return...

rachieb123 12.10.2009 · Read review
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John Lewis Wedding Service

Advantages: Great variety, great service
Disadvantages: None

...very easy to find. Once the list is up and running and people start buying you gifts the fun part for me was logging on and seeing what gifts had been bought and who had bought them. I think I got a little obsessed as I logged on every day to have a look but it was fun. I know some people decide not to look so when the gifts finally do arrive you are surprised with what you have. I do have to say, when our gifts did arrive, even though it was great that we got a lot of gifts it was a bit of a let down as I knew exactly what each of them was going to be, oh well. When you initially sign up with John Lewis they ask you to pick a day when you want your gifts delivered. This was such a nice aspect of the service, you did not have to go and pick them up, they delivered the gifts to you. Basically they keep everything that has been bought...

Spottydog11 11.08.2008 · Read review
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Is John Lewis For Me?

Advantages: Classy, different, special.
Disadvantages: Shop assistants tend to be a bit pushy.

...the comparison of somewhere like Debenhams to John Lewis it has the same kind of appeal. So if you like shopping in Debenhams then chances are you would also be the type of person that would enjoy shopping in John Lewis. I much prefer shopping on the internet because it's more laid back and I don't have the worry of breaking anything and I aint going to get any blisters sitting in my computer chair. Going into a John Lewis store isn't really for me, I'm more down to earth and prefer down to earth tastes than top of the range products. That's just who I am. Saying this though I love shopping on-line and always manage to find something to suit my tastes. John Lewis as mentioned earlier have many products on offer so many that there is usually something to suit everyone. If your feeling down or need something to make you feel special then John...

Mickie26 26.09.2003 · Read review
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John Lewis shopping how it should be

Advantages: Great value, great choice
Disadvantages: Not very many stores!

...John Lewis As I live and shop quite frequently at John Lewis Cheadle my review here will focus mainly on my experiences of that store although I have shopped at several John Lewis department stores. About John Lewis. John Lewis is a large chain of department stores across the UK with the flagship store being Oxford Street in London. The John Lewis partnership also operates the food store Waitrose. There are three stores in Scotland (Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow), there are four stores in the North of England including Cheadle, Newcastle, Sheffield and Liverpool. A brand new store at the Trafford Centre is opening in May 2005. In Central England you can find stores in Cambridge, Milton Keynes, Norwich, Nottingham, Solihull and Peterborough. In the capital you will find stores in Brent Cross, Kingston, Oxford...

nickjj78 23.04.2005 · Read review
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John Lewis?...A good Lewis

Advantages: Plenty of consumer choice
Disadvantages: Can sometimes pay a premium

...As I have written about John Lewis before in my Wedding List review I will not write a 4000 word essay, mainly because it will bore you and my fingers will fall off. I am basing all my assumptions on just the stores I have visited (around 4), of which mostly is the one in Milton Keynes. As with most department stores the shop is huge and you could very easily spend 3-4 hours looking through the entire 3 levels of goods they have to offer. My wife loves to browse everything even if she browsed the same stuff the week before. I have to admit there is something about John Lewis that appeals to me more than most other stores like Debenhams; I think it is because their products all ooze quality. The Store from the outside looks impressive; the window displays are always well designed and modern to keep up with the times. The John...

B_O_M_B_A 03.08.2008 · Read review
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John Lewis is my shopping mecca

Advantages: friendliest staff you could meet, well established
Disadvantages: price matching is a bit suspect

...for shopping and shopping in John Lewis. Now to the pricing. I wouldn't say I buy everything I need in John Lewis as the pricing policy confuses me slightly. John Lewis is competitive but mainly with other high street stores and their policy of price matching means you have to fill in a form and give them details of where you found the price. So you can't buy an item until they have checked this out. This puts me off, so I have never tried this and do not know how long it can take. Furthermore, John Lewis does not price match with internet, which is reasonable. But the John Lewis internet site does not price match with other internet sites so I find that a bit bemusing! Also, I wouldn't say I agree with the "Never Knowingly Undersold" blanket quote across the whole of John Lewis John Lewis pricing never exceeds RRP, so if other...

jupiter28 27.03.2008 (28.03.2008) · Read review
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John Lewis's, I wish I was rich!

Advantages: Good stock, classier than Debenhams!
Disadvantages: Not many stores around

...I am getting married in March and have decided to go for a wedding list arrangement so that I don't receive 75 toasters / kettles etc, you get the picture. Also I think that it's nice to actually buy someone something they really want, rather than just crossing your fingers and hoping for the best. There were a number of shops where we could have hosted our list, or indeed we could have hosted our wedding list with a number of different stores through an online agency. We weighed up the pro's and con's of all of the options and the one that floated to the surface screaming 'pick me, pick me' was John Lewis. *****What's it like then***** The John Lewis I visited was a Solihull and was only opened in 2001. The store is 3 floors, with an art gallery above that has art for sale through the store. What I really appreciated was that...

josarah 09.11.2005 (01.02.2006) · Read review
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John Lewis.......Upper Class Heaven (Supposedly)

Advantages: Wide range of high quality products
Disadvantages: Busy and the ease of breaking things

...when it comes down to asking a member of staff for help it usually involves a 20 minute hunt to find someone. At times I have also been slightly concerned about who they recruit, just the other day I was being served by someone who didn't look a day over 12! I have to admit it was quite a shock to be served by what looked like my little brother in a suit. But still, I shall not complain because although scarce to come by the staff have never been rude and on that very rare occassion that I have managed to track someone down they have always been more than willing to help. Location *********** As I have already said before John Lewis is located in the Mall, Cribbs Causeway. The shop is in an excellent location as many shoppers go to John Lewis as well as visiting all the other shops. You can easily leave the shop to go for a coffee...

LukeRichardson 22.11.2006 · Read review
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John Lewis - Laptop Heaven

Advantages: Fantastic friendly staff, salespeople that aren't on commission, 2 year warranty on laptps
Disadvantages: End up spending too much because I love it there

...Lewis (Cheadle) and was completely ready for the salespeople. In most of the other shops I had been to I was virtually ignored by the male staff so they could concentrate on the 'real' purchasers - men. Being young I was made to feel completely patronised by the sales staff who talked to me as though I was stupid (not the case!). John Lewis took me completely by surprise; I was on the defensive when ?Gary? came over to speak to me. At that time I didn?t know where to begin because all of the visits to the other shops had just added to my confusion. Gary asked what I wanted the laptop for I said (apart from looking good I am a girl after all!) the internet, word & excel. Based on what I had said and after a long time chatting about them, Gary recommended two laptops the main difference being the operating systems, one was a Mac...

zippyfi 19.05.2003 · Read review
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John Lewis JLPA02 - With any indoor aerial reception is an issue.

Advantages: Small, easy to move around the room.
Disadvantages: High price for low build quality.

...My history with indoor based television aerials is not good. Images of trying to hold the aerial perfectly still with one hand, the remote in the other and tuning the freeview receiver all at the same time inevitably spring to mind. Living roughly twenty miles away from the transmitter, the unamplified aerial resurrected from the back of a cupboard gave me extremely grainy picture on terrestrial and only 1 multiplex of channels on digital. For those of you who don?t know, digital TV is broadcast in blocks of channels, called multiplexes. You either get all of the channels in a particular block, or none at all. It was therefore with some trepidation that I went to John Lewis and was once again bombarded with a selection of indoor aerials, all promising to give me the strongest, cleanest digital TV signal I?d ever seen. I made my choice...

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