Andy Street hopes to enter politics, following in the footsteps of Mark Price Tom StockillMark Price and Andy Street both entered the John Lewis Partnership graduate trainee scheme straight from university. Both found the choice between the two straightforward. “I joined John Lewis because it had two golf courses and five ocean-going yachts,” said Price, the self-styled “Chubby Grocer” who rose to be managing director of Waitrose and deputy chairman of the overall partnership. “I thought, ‘Gosh, this has got to be a great company,’ ” he told The Sunday Times earlier this year. In contrast, “M&S turned me down, so that was quite clear”, said…

Source: The Times September 17, 2016 23:02 UTC