Tag Archives: Valentine’s Day

Total sales for John Lewis & Partners were down 3.4% last week (to Saturday February 16) on the same week last year. The department store group’s trade director Simon Coble said: “Home sales were down 7.6%. However, we had a record week for Valentine’s Day products with sales up 27% …

Tesco will give its unsold Valentine’s Day flowers and bouquets away to good causes this year ‘to make sure not a single stem goes to waste’. The supermarket chain said: ‘Despite high demand for bouquets in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, some stems and bunches will inevitably remain unsold despite …

Waitrose & Partners has introduced a multi-coloured single rose for Valentine’s Day, following the launch of its Language of Love bouquet- an arrangement of rainbow roses which sold out in 2018. The bouquet proved so popular with online shoppers last year that the supermarket has increased orders of it for this …

Total sales excluding fuel were up 2% at Waitrose & Partners last week (to Saturday February 9) compared with the same week last year. The supermarket chain’s supply chain director Wim van Aalst commented: Chinese ingredients, sauces and stir fry were in strong demand as shoppers celebrated Chinese New Year …

Divisional sales excluding fuel at Waitrose last week (to Saturday February 17) were up 3.6% compared with the same week last year. Sales of prepared meals increased by 3% boosted by the supermarket chain’s Valentine’s Day meal deal, which proved popular with customers. Wine sales were also up 11%, helped …

Divisional sales excluding fuel at Waitrose were up 1.7% last week (to Saturday February 10) compared with the same week last year. The supermarket group’s supply chain director Wim van Aalst said customers were making preparations for Valentine’s Day, with Champagne sales up 24%, strawberry sales up 11%, flowers up …