Shoppers browsing furniture at John Lewis’s Oxford Street branch far from pleased by comments
The poet Sir John Betjeman once remarked that when the end of the world came, he would want to be in the John Lewis [then Peter Jones] flagship store on Sloane Square, as “nothing unpleasant could ever happen there”.
From poetic tributes to wedding gift lists and annual Christmas commercials, the apparent fondness for the John Lewis brand is a quintessentially British trait.
