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