| Consumer Electronics Show wrap-up: from Palm Pre to porn stars [7 mins][Travalle] | Clued-up staff and price pledge help John Lewis to massive 27% rise in sales [17 mins][Westminster] epa01589351 (FILE) A file photograph showing John Lewis in Oxford Street, London, Britain, 23 December 2008. John Lewis Partnership Plc said 02 January 2009, sales rose last week at its department-store chain, the U.K.'s largest, and Waitrose supermarkets as discounts lured shoppers in the face of an economic contraction. Revenue surged 41 percent from a year earlier to 112 million euros at Waitrose in the week to Dec. 27, the London-based company announced 02 January. EPA/ANDY RAIN |