text: John Lewis UK store sales up 4. 5% in week. LONDON 1996-12-06 
   The John Lewis Partnership said its UK department store sales rose 4. 5 percent in the week to November 30 compared with the same week a year earlier. In the 18 weeks to November 30, sales were up 13. 6 percent year-on-year. Total sales, including the Waitrose supermarket chain, rose 5. 8 percent in the week and were up 11. 4 percent in the 18-week period. --Rosemary Bennett, London Newsroom 44 171 542 2774
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