{"id":65146,"date":"2011-02-05T07:01:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/john-lewis-never-knowingly-undersold\/"},"modified":"2017-09-01T05:49:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:49:46","slug":"john-lewis-never-knowingly-undersold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/john-lewis-never-knowingly-undersold\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lewis: never knowingly undersold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nFor 85 years John Lewis has proudly promised to refund the difference. But\u00a0with the famous pledge quietly diluted, it&#8217;s not easy to claim nowIt is possibly the most famous promise in British retailing: &#8220;Never knowingly undersold&#8221; has been at the heart of John Lewis&#8217;s business since 1925. But a quietly introduced change has infuriated loyal customers, who claim the price-match promise is now slipping away.For many years John Lewis customers have been safe in the knowledge that if they found their purchase for a lower price elsewhere the company would refund the difference. Carrier bags and marketing campaigns have proudly proclaimed to the world that John Lewis won&#8217;t be beaten on price. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2011\/feb\/05\/john-lewis-never-knowingly-undersold\" target=\"_blank\">John Lewis: never knowingly undersold?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; For 85 years John Lewis has proudly promised to refund the difference. But\u00a0with the famous&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-gWK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9890,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/10-john-lewis-refund-has-become-matter-of-principle\/","url_meta":{"origin":65146,"position":0},"title":"\u00a310 John Lewis refund has become matter of principle","date":"April 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r I was promised the money under its \u2018never knowingly undersold\u2019 pledge, but it never arrivedI wonder if you could help me with what has become a matter of principle. 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