I came across this the other day. I was at school with Eric. I vaguely knew (from Friends Reunited) that he was at JLP, but I hadn't realised that he'd spend his whole career there. It seems odd that someone so adventurous as Eric would end up with a stodgy grocer/department store like JLP, especially one that is essentially a cooperative.
Probably I'm being very unfair about John Lewis. In practice we tend to get our groceries from Waitrose, or Ocado, and although we complain about John Lewis WGC to the extent that we intend to buy something that they sell, we tend to use it.
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