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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/john-lewis-lifted-by-clothing-sales.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="John Lewis reported a jump in weekly takings to £88 million after colder weather boosted demand for clothing ranges" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-john-lewis-lifted-by-clothing-sales.jpg" alt="John Lewis reported a jump in weekly takings to £88 million after colder weather boosted demand for clothing ranges"/></a></p>
<p>Department store chain John Lewis has reported a jump in weekly takings to £88 million after colder weather boosted demand for clothing ranges.</p>
<p>The total covering the seven days to Saturday represents a 12% rise on the same week a year earlier and is also 14% higher than the previous week as the group&#8217;s 32 stores and home shopping division gear up for Christmas.</p>
<p>As well as fashion and beauty products, other strong sellers included Kindle e-book readers, Apple iPads and SLR digital cameras.</p>
<p>John Lewis, which is seen as a bellwether of Britain&#8217;s high street, described trading last week as &#8220;excellent&#8221;, particularly given strong comparatives with the same week a year earlier. Sales were up 29% on two years ago, it added.</p>
<p>At supermarket chain Waitrose, which is also part of the John Lewis Partnership, sales of £98 million were 8% higher than a year earlier.</p>
<p>The business, which has 239 shops in England, Scotland and Wales, said its sales figures showed that shoppers&#8217; preparations for Christmas were already under way.</p>
<p>Howard Archer, chief UK economist at IHS Global Insight, said the latest figures were encouraging and suggested that for John Lewis at least sales are gaining decent momentum towards Christmas.</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;Retailers will be hoping that consumers decide to splash out and have a good Christmas despite all of the economic worries and concerns.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is also likely that retail sales will benefit to a limited extent in the final weeks of this year from consumers looking to make purchases of more expensive items ahead of the January VAT increase from 17.5% to 20%.&#8221;</p>
<p>While John Lewis&#8217; department store sales have traditionally been seen as a bellwether for the health of the consumer, Mr Archer said in recent times the retailer has comfortably out-performed the sector as a whole.</p>
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