John Lewis will use Fenny Lock’s website to place orders for fashion, small home furnishings and technology products.
Proximity to the Magna Park campus will allow it to pool more customer orders, reducing both the number of packages produced per year by about a million and the number of trucks on the roads, helping the retailer achieve its goal Achieve net zero CO2 by 2035.
This year John Lewis is investing £ 50 million in johnlewis.com and its app and creating other virtual services and events.
It has also signed a three-year lease on a 300,000 square foot distribution center in Bardon, Leicestershire, which it will be up and running in time for Black Friday 2021 this month.
John Lewis currently uses 10 sales offices across the UK to process online and shop orders.
These are Magna Park locations 1, 2 and 3 in Milton Keynes, Blakelands in Milton Keynes, Brackmills in Northampton, Grange Park in Northampton, Corby in Northamptonshire, Redditch in Worcestershire, the Waitrose National Distribution Center in Milton Keynes and a subsidiary in Northampton, where customer returns and engineering repairs are processed to reduce the number of items that land in landfills.