{"id":2110,"date":"2018-09-13T06:18:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T06:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/john-lewis-profits-slump-99-in-challenging-times\/"},"modified":"2018-09-13T06:18:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T06:18:56","slug":"john-lewis-profits-slump-99-in-challenging-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/john-lewis-profits-slump-99-in-challenging-times\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lewis profits slump 99% in &#8216;challenging times&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"John Lewis store\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/CF9E\/production\/_103405135_cl76kzjb.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Profits at John Lewis have fallen to almost zero in the first half of its financial year.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Charlie Mayfield, chairman of the John Lewis Partnership, said: &#8220;These are challenging times in retail&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The owner of the department store chain and Waitrose supermarkets had warned in June that its half-year profits would be wiped out.<\/p>\n<p>Its latest results showed profits for the six months to 28 July had fallen to \u00a31.2m, down 99% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45506322\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Reuters Profits at John Lewis have fallen to almost zero in the first half of its financial year. Sir Charlie Mayfield, chairman of the John Lewis Partnership, said: &#8220;These are challenging times in retail&#8221;. The owner of the department store chain and Waitrose supermarkets had warned in June that its half-year profits would &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}