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

...John Lewis Wedding Service John Lewis Wedding List I got married last year and probably one of the most exciting parts (ok marrying the love of my life was pretty exciting too but?..) was the gift list!! We didn't have to think for very long about where we wanted to go. We had considered Debenhams but they didn't have enough of a range to pick from and we wanted something a bit more upmarket shall we say! So, we decided upon John Lewis as they just have some lovely things in there. We got married in October so we went into the store in Milton Keynes in about August to set up the list. The list only goes live (this is when people can access it and actually buy you presents) a couple of months before the wedding so there is no point in doing it early. Also, as we were helpfully told, if you pick something very early to put...

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.

...I shopped at John Lewis for my first time, last year. Before I shopped there I had heard various stories and reports of this store. My viewpoint was that this was a posh store, a bit snooty and not really for me. Let me say, I have only been to a John Lewis store once and mainly shop on-line. John Lewis stores to visit are special shops, quite posh, but you feel good shopping there. My viewpoints have changed now and although I wouldn't shop at John Lewis all the time for special occasions and gifts it's very good. I was introduced to John Lewis with a £10 gift voucher off my first order of £20 or more. I bought a lovely vase for my friend, Laura. She was delighted with the quality yet simplicity and style of this vase. There were 3 vases of declining size which, when placed together made a complete looking vase...

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!

..., painting and decorating equipment, bathrooms and much, much more!! Basically if you are after a good quality make of household item (e.g. Miele washing machine) then John Lewis offers very knowledgeable staff, price matches quality items and a very wide selection! They also have a great TV and DVD electrical department which also features mobiles, landline phones and PCs. The department is not huge so there isn't a never ending selection but they do have the latest models and frequently introduce newer products. John Lewis also stock lots of accessories such as cords, SCAT leads etc. truly making it a one stop shop! GROUND FLOOR: Here is householders dream as you wander from the wild and the exotic from carpets and flooring to lampshades, ready made bedding and curtains, rolls upon rolls of material (literally hundreds of them!!) to...

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...

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Janome J3-18 sewing machine

Advantages: Simple to use, 18 stitch selection, 4 step auto button hole, easy threading
Disadvantages: None

...This is my first machine as I started sewing about 3 months ago. I cannot praise this machine enough - it's an entry model yet incorporates so many features including 18 stitches, 4 step auto buttonhole and really simple threading guide. On first opening this machine, I used the clearly written instruction manual and was sewing in no time. The instructions are step by step and I quickly learnt how to thread the needle and the bobbin to start sewing. It's a really sturdy machine and I have found it really easy to master, as well as sort out any tangles and problems. It is pedal operated, with a nice long lead that stretches comfortably to nearby plug sockets. The cable leading from the machine to the pedal is also long enough to work comfortably at a standard table height. Now that I have been sewing for a few months I have found that...

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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 - 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

...Having spent years dreaming about owning a laptop I also spent the same amount of time searching for the perfect one. There are so many things to consider and with the computer market changing every second it completely confused me ? somebody who is extremely computer minded and very confident on them. I knew that I wanted to spend about £1,000 and I wanted to get the best machine I possibly could for that money. I spent at least a month trawling all of the appropriate shops: 1. Dixons - good offers, knowledgeable staff, 12 month warranty 2. Currys - ok staff, ok prices, awful finance tie-ins, 12 month warranty 3. PC World - far too big, took me ages to speak to any staff, 12 month warranty 4. Every computer website on the entire net - couldn't touch the product After all that I popped into my local branch of John...

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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