John Lewis has plans in place to get its shops open and working again in May. The department store has been closed since March 23, although Waitrose has kept trading in the interim.
Now, with more and more places opening up again, The Mail on Sunday reports John Lewis could be ready to accept customers through its doors again by mid-May.
John Lewis director Andrew Murphy said the plan to get things going again would take six weeks to complete from the starter's gun being fired. "For the last four or five weeks the crisis has been intense and the demands have meant we've been dealing with circumstances changing almost daily," Murphy said. "Over the past seven to ten days there has been a shift.
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