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Store workers get 7% pay rise
Western Daily Press
|February 18, 2026
THE John Lewis Partnership is to hike pay for its shop workers by 6.9%.
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The employee-owned firm, which runs the John Lewis department store chain and Waitrose supermarket arm, said the move will see it invest £108 million in staff pay.
JLP’s latest pay increase will surpass the increase in the national minimum wage announced in last November's autumn budget.
This story is from the February 18, 2026 edition of Western Daily Press.
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