Both John Lewis and Waitrose have enjoyed a positive week, allowing its parent company the John Lewis Partnership to record another week of solid sales growth. For the second week of its fiscal year ending February 10, the partnership raked in £200.34 million in sales – a 1.6 per cent year-on-year increase. Separately, the partnership’s eponymous department store chain recorded 1.7 per cent year-on-year increase in total sales, while Waitrose recorded a 1.6 per cent rise