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Waitrose

Supermarkets & Groceries 90 CITED SOURCES UPDATED 2026-07-04
BDS-1000 Score 216 /1000 D Tier D - Moderate
Military ↗ 0.00 Digital ↗ 0.15 Economic ↗ 2.93 Political ↗ 2.45

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BDS-1000 Dossier: Waitrose

Key Findings

  • Economic: Waitrose has a documented history of sourcing settlement-linked goods - West Bank herbs (discontinued 2014, described as a “purely commercial” decision), Barkan-settlement halva, and Jordan Valley Medjoul dates via the Hadiklaim cooperative - and was one of eight UK supermarkets issued a legal notice in October 2024 by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) over settlement-produce suppliers.12
  • Political: In February 2015 Waitrose Kitchen magazine distributed an Israeli-government-funded “Taste of Israel” promotional pamphlet that mislabelled Palestinian and Arab dishes as Israeli, and since October 2023 Waitrose has issued no corporate statement on the Gaza conflict, a silence trade press attributed to the sector as a whole.34
  • Digital: Waitrose ran a “very small scale,” single-store AI smart-trolley pilot at its Bracknell branch using technology from Shopic, an Israeli (Tel Aviv-headquartered) vendor.56
  • Not found: No public evidence of any military, defence, or dual-use contracting relationship with Israeli state or defence-industry entities; the PAX coalition’s arms-and-financiers report and Israel’s own SIBAT defence-export directory contain no Waitrose entry, and Waitrose’s parent, the John Lewis Partnership, is a fully employee-owned trust with no external - including Israeli - shareholders.78

Target Profile

FieldDetail
Company NameWaitrose & Partners
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom - a wholly owned trading division of the John Lewis Partnership, an employee-owned trust registered in the UK8
HeadquartersNo specific headquarters address documented in the audits; Waitrose operates roughly 329 shops across Great Britain and the Channel Islands9
SectorFood and general-merchandise retail (supermarket)
OwnershipTrading division of the John Lewis Partnership, held in trust for ~70,000 employee-Partners; no external shareholders and no stock-market listing. Group-level debt is raised through John Lewis plc bonds listed on the London Stock Exchange8
Key Executives / GovernanceJason Tarry, JLP Chairman since September 2024 (succeeding Dame Sharon White), chairing both the Partnership Board and executive team under a single integrated JLP/Waitrose business structure since 2025. No Waitrose or JLP executive is documented making public statements on Israel/Palestine, and a review of JLP’s disclosed leadership team found no defence-industry directorships or co-belligerency statements1011
Israeli-Nexus SummaryHistorical and ongoing supply-chain purchases from Israeli and Israeli-settlement agricultural exporters, one single-store Israeli AI-vendor pilot, and a 2015 Israeli-government promotional-content controversy; no military, ownership, or defence-sector nexus identified

Key Facts:

Executive Summary

Waitrose & Partners is a UK-only supermarket chain and trading division of the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership. It has no stores, offices, logistics facilities, or ownership presence in Israel or the occupied Palestinian territories; its only overseas retail licensing arrangement is with Spinneys in Dubai.9 The company’s documented Israel/Palestine nexus runs almost entirely through its agricultural supply chain and a handful of political and reputational episodes, not through operations, ownership, or defence-adjacent activity.

The strongest documented vector is economic. Waitrose has, at various points, stocked own-brand herbs grown on Israeli-managed West Bank farms (discontinued in 2014, a move the company described as “purely commercial” rather than ethical), Achva-brand halva labelled as originating in the Barkan industrial settlement (documented by War on Want in 2010), and Medjoul dates marketed under the “Duchy” own-brand line and sourced via the Hadiklaim cooperative, whose supply network includes Jordan Valley settlement growers and a packing house at Beit Ha’arava.11718 In October 2024 the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) issued a formal legal notice to Waitrose and seven other UK supermarkets, citing the ICC Act 2001, the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, and the 2024 ICJ Advisory Opinion, and naming Mehadrin, Miriam (Shoham), Galilee, Hadiklaim, and Achdut-Achva as settlement-linked suppliers of dates, mangoes, avocados, tahini, halva, and bakery goods reaching UK supermarkets; no public Waitrose response to the notice has been identified.219 On the political axis, the most concrete episode is the February 2015 distribution, via Waitrose Kitchen magazine, of a paid promotional supplement produced and funded by the Israeli Government Tourist Office that described Palestinian and Arab dishes as Israeli - a controversy compounded by Waitrose’s deletion of critical Facebook comments and blocking of a Palestine Solidarity Campaign commentator.3

Set against this, several claims that might harden this picture do not survive the evidence record and are excluded or carried with caveats accordingly. Waitrose maintains - and no audit found contrary evidence - that goods it labels “from Israel” originate exclusively within pre-1967 borders, with West Bank produce labelled separately.20 The company has told Ethical Consumer it no longer sources Medjoul dates from Israel (now the USA and Morocco), though the exact de-sourcing date is not public.21 Sabra hummus remains on Waitrose shelves, but its Israeli co-owner Strauss Group divested its entire 50% stake to US-based PepsiCo in November 2024, meaning Sabra is no longer an Israeli-domiciled supplier.2223 The ICJP’s naming of Miriam (Shoham) as a Golan Heights mango packer does not establish a Waitrose-specific purchasing relationship - that link is unverified rather than confirmed.2 SodaStream and Ahava divestment actions, often cited in boycott literature, belong to the sibling John Lewis department-store brand, not Waitrose.2425 And critically, no audit - across the OHCHR settlement-business database, Israel’s own SIBAT defence-export directory, the PAX coalition’s report on companies arming Israel, or company profiles for Elbit Systems - found any military, dual-use, or defence-supply-chain relationship whatsoever.713141526

On the digital front, the single identified Israeli-domiciled vendor relationship is a “very small scale” pilot of Shopic’s AI smart-trolley technology at one Bracknell store - a trial, not an enterprise deployment - set against an otherwise UK/US/Netherlands/India/Japan-domiciled technology stack (AWS, Elastic, Flooid, ORTEC, Trust Retail, Oracle, Wipro, Google Cloud, Blue Yonder).5627 Waitrose’s CCTV estate does not use facial recognition, distinguishing it from competitors that have trialled such systems, though it co-funds a UK police facial-recognition matching operation (Project Pegasus) unrelated to Israel.2829

These facts collectively produce a BRS score of 216, placing Waitrose in Tier D (Moderate). The composite is driven almost entirely by the Economic domain (V=2.93), moderated by a Political contribution (V=2.45) rooted in one high-visibility promotional controversy and a documented pattern of public silence, while Digital (0.15) and Military (0.00) contribute negligibly - reflecting a company whose Israel/Palestine nexus is a commercial supply-chain and reputational matter, not a strategic, military, or ownership one.

Timeline of Relevant Events

DateEvent
2008John Lewis department stores (JLP sibling brand, not Waitrose) cease stocking Ahava cosmetics, manufactured in the Mitzpe Shalem settlement.25
Dec 2009UK DEFRA issues voluntary guidance on labelling West Bank settlement produce; Waitrose states it will follow the guidance.3031
2010War on Want documents Waitrose stocking Achva-brand halva labelled as produced in the Barkan West Bank settlement.17
2011Carmel Agrexco, a historical Waitrose produce supplier, goes into liquidation.32
Jul 2014John Lewis department stores (JLP sibling brand) discontinue SodaStream, manufactured in the Mishor Adumim settlement, after PSC-led protests.24
2014Waitrose stops sourcing own-brand herbs from Israeli-managed West Bank farms, describing the decision as “purely commercial.”133
Feb 2015Waitrose Kitchen magazine distributes an IGTO-funded “Taste of Israel” promotional pamphlet; PSC files an ASA complaint; Waitrose deletes critical social-media comments and blocks a PSC commentator.334
2019Duchy Organic Medjoul dates documented as sourced from Israel via the Hadiklaim cooperative.1
Feb 2020Corporate Occupation publishes an investigation documenting Waitrose’s settlement-linked sourcing history (dates, halva, wine).1
2022–2023JLP explores raising external minority investment; the plan is not pursued and the Chairman confirms the company will remain employee-owned.3536
Dec 2023Activists remove settlement produce from a Waitrose branch in Sheffield.37
May 2024During a coordinated PSC boycott day, a Waitrose spokeswoman states branches report “business as usual.”38
30 Oct 2024ICJP issues a legal notice to Waitrose and seven other UK supermarkets over settlement-linked suppliers.2
Nov 2024Strauss Group divests its 50% Sabra stake to PepsiCo; Sabra ceases to be Israeli-owned.23
Dec 2024ICJP escalates, writing to Waitrose and other chains and to the UK DEFRA Secretary of State.19
2024–2025Activists remove avocados, hummus, and dates from Waitrose branches in Preston and Chorley.3940
Sep 2024Jason Tarry appointed JLP Chairman.10
~2025Waitrose trials Shopic’s AI smart-trolley system at a single Bracknell store.5
May–Jun 2025Co-op members vote to end stocking of Israeli produce (comparator; not a Waitrose action).41
Jul 2025UN Special Rapporteur’s report From economy of occupation to economy of genocide discusses supermarket chains generically as settlement-produce channels; no Waitrose-specific citation identified.4243

Corporate Overview

Waitrose & Partners is a wholly owned trading division of the John Lewis Partnership (JLP), the UK’s largest employee-owned business, held in trust for approximately 70,000 employee-Partners under a written Constitution establishing three co-equal governing authorities: the Partnership Board, the Chairman, and a 58-member elected Partnership Council.844 Since 2025 JLP has operated Waitrose and its department-store sibling John Lewis as a single integrated business without separate divisional boards or Managing Directors.45 Jason Tarry became JLP’s seventh Chairman in September 2024.10

Waitrose has no Israeli subsidiary, joint venture, franchise, or ownership tie of any kind; it operates exclusively in Great Britain and the Channel Islands, with its only overseas retail licensing relationship being two Waitrose-branded stores operated by Spinneys in Dubai, UAE.9 The occupied-territory nexus documented in the audits runs entirely through third-party suppliers: the Hadiklaim date cooperative (whose network spans Israel-proper and Jordan Valley settlements, with a packing operation at Beit Ha’arava), Achdut-Achva (Barkan-settlement halva producer), the historical Carmel Agrexco export house (vineyards in the Golan Heights and northern West Bank), and the Edom UK joint venture linking Glinwell and Valley Grown Salads, documented by researchers as packaging produce at the Beit Ha’arava settlement packing house.1161832 The ICJP’s October 2024 notice separately names Mehadrin, Miriam (Shoham), and Galilee as settlement-linked exporters reaching UK supermarkets generally, though a Waitrose-specific purchasing relationship with these three is not independently confirmed in the record.2

For completeness, the audits document that JLP’s sibling department-store brand, John Lewis, separately stocked and then discontinued SodaStream (2014) and Ahava (2008), and ran a 2015 augmented-reality retail partnership with the Israeli company Cimagine - all attributed to the John Lewis brand rather than to Waitrose.242546

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identified of any mechanism connecting Waitrose to Israeli military, defence, or security-sector activity. Checks spanned the OHCHR settlement-business database, the ICJP’s October 2024 legal correspondence, Israel’s SIBAT Defense and HLS Directory, and the PAX coalition’s catalogue of companies arming Israel and their financiers - none surfaced a contract, tender, dual-use product line, or defence-prime supply relationship involving Waitrose or JLP.13142715 The only occupied-territory nexus identified anywhere in the record is agricultural sourcing (dates, wine, settlement-packed produce), which the audits treat as an economic/political matter rather than a military one.116

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Waitrose is a food and general-merchandise retailer with no identified ruggedised, tactical, or mil-spec product lines.13 Its identified logistics arrangements (e.g., a UK distribution contract with XPO Logistics) are domestic commercial agreements with no defence or Israel-related dimension.47 Separate UK litigation over F-35 export licensing (Al-Haq v. Secretary of State for Business and Trade) and a House of Commons Library briefing on UK arms-export policy toward Israel do not name or involve Waitrose.4849 Waitrose has publicly denied wrongdoing regarding its Israeli sourcing more broadly.20

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Entity/CheckFinding
Israeli MoD / IDF / Prison Service / Border PoliceNo public evidence identified of any contract or MOU1314
Elbit Systems, Rafael, Israel Aerospace IndustriesNo supply, component, or manufacturing linkage identified26
SIBAT Defense and HLS DirectoryNo Waitrose or JLP exporter entry15
PAX “Companies Arming Israel” reportWaitrose/JLP not within documented scope7
XPO Logistics (UK distribution)Domestic commercial contract, no defence dimension47
Hadiklaim / Beit Ha’arava (Edom UK)Agricultural sourcing - reclassified to Economic/Political, not Military116

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

Waitrose runs a layered, multi-vendor technology stack - AWS and Elastic Cloud for e-commerce and observability, Flooid (UK, later acquired by Japan-listed Glory Global Solutions) for point-of-sale, ORTEC (Netherlands) for delivery scheduling, Trust Retail (UK) for inventory, Netcore Unbxd (US) for AI search, Oracle (US) and Wipro (India) at group ERP/infrastructure level, Google Cloud (US) under a JLP-wide £100m agreement, and Blue Yonder (US) for demand forecasting.275051525354555657 The single Israeli-domiciled exception is Shopic, a Tel Aviv-headquartered computer-vision company whose AI smart-trolley devices Waitrose trialled on a “very small scale” at one Bracknell store, enabling frictionless in-trolley scanning and checkout.5658

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The Shopic relationship is confined to a single pilot store, not an enterprise-wide deployment.5 Waitrose’s privacy notice confirms its CCTV does not use facial recognition or collect biometrics, unlike some competitors.28 Its participation in Project Pegasus, a UK-police-funded facial-recognition matching operation, is a retail-crime co-funding arrangement among ~10-15 UK retailers, not an Israeli or defence-linked relationship.29 No public evidence identified of any ICO enforcement action, GDPR fine, or defence/intelligence-sector technology relationship involving Waitrose.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

VendorDomicileIsrael Nexus
Shopic (smart trolley, Bracknell pilot)Israel (Tel Aviv)Yes - sole identified case56
AWS, Elastic, Oracle, Blue Prism/SS&C, Netcore Unbxd, Blue Yonder, Epsilon, Snowflake, TableauUSNone identified2754595660
Flooid/Glory Global SolutionsUK/JapanNone identified5061
ORTECNetherlandsNone identified51
WiproIndiaNone identified55
DataikuFranceNone identified62

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

Waitrose’s economic nexus runs through payments to Israeli agricultural exporters for both Israel-proper produce (avocados, mangoes, peppers, figs, grapefruit, pomegranates) and, historically, settlement-linked goods.20 Documented settlement-sourced lines include own-brand herbs from six Israeli-managed West Bank farms (discontinued 2014), Achva-brand halva from the Barkan industrial settlement (documented 2010, product page still listed as of 2024 though unavailable), and Duchy-brand Medjoul dates via the Hadiklaim cooperative, whose network includes Jordan Valley settlement growers and a Beit Ha’arava packing house.133176318 In October 2024 the ICJP named Waitrose among eight supermarkets in a formal legal notice concerning settlement suppliers Mehadrin, Miriam (Shoham), Galilee, Hadiklaim, and Achdut-Achva; the notice sought disclosure of Waitrose’s due-diligence procedures within fourteen days, and no public Waitrose response has been identified.2 The ICJP escalated in December 2024, writing again to Waitrose and to the UK government.19

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Waitrose maintains that products it labels “from Israel” originate exclusively within pre-1967 borders, with West Bank produce labelled separately - a claim not contradicted by any audit finding.20 It attributes the 2014 herb de-sourcing to commercial rather than ethical reasoning, and has told Ethical Consumer it no longer sources Medjoul dates from Israel at all (now USA/Morocco), though the exact timing is undisclosed.3321 The 2010 Achva halva was transparently labelled with its Barkan origin - the dispute concerned an ongoing commercial relationship, not concealment.17 Sabra hummus, though still stocked, is no longer Israeli-owned following Strauss’s November 2024 divestment to PepsiCo.2223 The Waitrose-specific link to Miriam (Shoham)‘s Golan Heights mango operation is unverified - the ICJP notice names the supplier in relation to UK supermarkets generally, not Waitrose specifically.2 Structurally, JLP has no external shareholders of any nationality - a 2022-2023 exploration of outside investment was abandoned and the company remains fully employee-owned - precluding any Israeli capital stake by design.83536

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Supplier/EntityProductStatus
HadiklaimDuchy-brand Medjoul datesHistorical; Waitrose states no longer sourced from Israel11821
Achdut-AchvaHalva (Barkan settlement)Documented 2010; product page listed but unavailable (2024)1763
Israeli West Bank herb farmsOwn-brand herbsDiscontinued 2014133
Carmel AgrexcoHerbs, flowers, grapes, wineHistorical; supplier liquidated 201132
Mehadrin / Miriam (Shoham) / GalileeDates, mangoes, avocados, tahiniNamed in ICJP notice; Waitrose-specific link unverified2
Sabra (Strauss/PepsiCo)HummusStocked; Israeli co-owner divested Nov 20242223

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

The most significant documented political episode is Waitrose’s February 2015 distribution, via Waitrose Kitchen magazine, of the Israeli Government Tourist Office-funded “Taste of Israel” promotional supplement, which described Palestinian and Arab dishes (hummus, falafel, za’atar, kibbeh) as Israeli and referenced the Golan Heights as Israeli territory; PSC filed an ASA complaint, and Waitrose deleted critical Facebook comments and blocked a Palestinian PSC commentator.334 No published ASA ruling on this specific complaint has been identified.64 Waitrose received the ICJP’s October 2024 legal notice alongside seven other supermarkets, demanding disclosure of settlement-sourcing due diligence, and has issued no public response.2 Since October 2023 Waitrose has made no corporate statement on the Gaza conflict; trade press noted this silence as characteristic of the UK grocery sector generally.4 In May 2024, amid a coordinated PSC boycott day, a Waitrose spokeswoman stated branches were experiencing “business as usual.”38 Activists have repeatedly removed settlement-linked produce from Waitrose branches (Sheffield, December 2023; Preston and Chorley, 2024-2025), and UK Lawyers for Israel documented “Boycott this Brand” stickers placed on Waitrose goods.373965

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Waitrose stated the “Taste of Israel” pamphlet “wasn’t written or produced by us” and that it was no longer in stores.3 No JLP Constitution provision mandates or prohibits positions on foreign conflicts, and the Partnership frames its purpose around employee wellbeing and ethical trading rather than state-conflict positioning.4466 No public statement on Israel/Palestine by Jason Tarry, Dame Sharon White, or any other JLP/Waitrose executive has been identified, nor any lobbying activity on Israel-Palestine trade policy.106768 Unlike Co-op, which voted in 2025 to stop stocking Israeli produce, Waitrose has made no equivalent public announcement - though Ethical Consumer notes Waitrose quietly ceased Israeli Medjoul-date sourcing without public fanfare, and many Israeli product lines were showing as out-of-stock on its website, absent any public statement to that effect.4121 The SodaStream and Ahava divestment decisions belong to the sibling John Lewis brand, not Waitrose.2425

Named Entities and Evidence Map

ActorRoleDocumented Position
Israeli Government Tourist OfficeFunded 2015 “Taste of Israel” supplementContent disputed by PSC as mislabelling Arab dishes3
Palestine Solidarity CampaignFiled ASA complaint; organises boycott actionsNo ruling published on 2015 complaint64
ICJPIssued Oct/Dec 2024 legal noticesNo Waitrose public response identified219
Jason Tarry / Dame Sharon WhiteJLP Chairmen (2024–present / 2020–2025)No public statements on Israel/Palestine identified1067
UK Lawyers for IsraelDocumented anti-boycott sticker vandalismActivist material, not a Waitrose position65

BDS-1000 Score (V4)

DomainIMPV-Domain Score
Military0.000.000.000.00
Digital2.501.502.000.15
Economic5.804.505.502.93
Political5.004.006.002.45

The composite is driven by Economic as the maximum domain, reflecting Waitrose’s documented - if partly discontinued - history of purchasing settlement-linked agricultural goods and its inclusion in the ICJP’s formal legal notice to eight UK supermarkets. Political contributes the second-highest score on the strength of the 2015 “Taste of Israel” controversy and a sustained pattern of public silence on the conflict since October 2023. Military and Digital register as negligible, anchoring the overall Tier D (Moderate) result: this is scale-free Impact × Magnitude/Proximity scoring, evidence-only against the four domain audits, with all scores fixed by human vetting.

Methodology Note

End Notes

Footnotes

  1. https://corporateoccupation.org/2020/02/13/apartheid-in-the-fields-from-occupied-palestine-to-uk-supermarkets-2020-update-part-7-3-ms/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12

  2. https://www.icjpalestine.com/2024/10/30/8-national-supermarkets-threatened-with-legal-action-for-selling-illegal-goods-from-israeli-settlements/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  3. https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-british-supermarket-is-being-accused-of-promoting-israeli-food-propaganda/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  4. https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/why-uk-grocery-has-been-so-slow-to-speak-out-on-gaza-famine/707765.article ↩ ↩2

  5. https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/waitrose-trials-ai-smart-trolley-system-in-uk-first/708665.article ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  6. https://techstartups.com/2022/08/09/israeli-tech-startup-shopic-bags-35-million-bring-ai-enabled-smart-cart-top-u-s-grocery-chains/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  7. https://paxforpeace.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/The-Companies-Arming-Israel-and-Their-Financiers-June-2024.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_Partnership ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitrose ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  10. https://www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/media-centre/latest-news/2024/19446 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  11. https://www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/our-company/team ↩

  12. https://johnlewispartnership.pressarea.com/pressrelease/jlp/details/22218 ↩

  13. https://www.sibat.mod.gov.il/Industries/directory/Pages/default.aspx ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  14. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  15. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session31/database-hrc3136/23-06-30-Update-israeli-settlement-opt-database-hrc3136.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  16. https://whoprofits.org/companies/company/4005 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  17. http://inminds.com/article.php?id=10363 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  18. https://jordanvalleysolidarity.org/reports/hadiklaim-in-the-jordan-valley/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  19. https://www.icjpalestine.com/2024/12/13/as-supermarkets-gear-up-for-christmas-windfall-icjp-calls-on-the-government-to-review-supermarkets-complicity-in-illegal-israeli-settlement-trade/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  20. https://www.fruitnet.com/fresh-produce-journal/waitrose-denies-claims-over-israeli-products/151292.article ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  21. https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/food-drink/Palestine-Israel-dates ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  22. https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/sabra-houmous-extra/633760-653550-653551 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  23. https://newsgpt.ai/2024/11/25/strauss-group-sells-sabra-hummus-stake-to-pepsico-for-244-million/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  24. https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/israel-palestine-ngos-protest-against-john-lewis-partnership-for-selling-sodastream-amid-boycott-over-alleges-ties-with-israeli-settlements-includes-company-comments/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  25. https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/01/14/bds-movement-victory-john-lewis-stops-stocking-ahava-products-in-britain ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  26. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/3794 ↩ ↩2

  27. https://www.elastic.co/customers/waitrose ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  28. https://www.biometricupdate.com/202504/caution-urged-as-uk-supermarkets-check-out-facial-recognition ↩ ↩2

  29. https://www.biometricupdate.com/202309/uk-police-retailers-partner-to-fight-shoplifting-with-biometrics ↩ ↩2

  30. https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/uk-issues-new-guidance-on-labelling-of-food-from-illegal-west-bank-settlements/ ↩

  31. https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2009-12-02/debates/09120233000002/IsraeliGoods(Labelling) ↩

  32. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmel_Agrexco ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  33. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/amena-saleem/uk-supermarket-waitrose-suffers-brand-damage-promoting-israel ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  34. https://palestinecampaign.org/tag/waitrose/ ↩ ↩2

  35. https://internetretailing.net/john-lewis-partnership-considers-changing-its-structure-to-enable-new-outside-investment-reports-suggest/ ↩ ↩2

  36. https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/john-lewis-partnership-vote/ ↩ ↩2

  37. https://tellthetruthsheffield.org/2023/12/17/protesters-take-direct-action-at-waitrose-and-marks-and-spencer-in-call-for-boycott-of-israeli-goods/ ↩ ↩2

  38. https://www.thejc.com/news/buycott-combats-morrisons-and-waitrose-israel-boycott-f4edwynh ↩ ↩2

  39. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-847169 ↩ ↩2

  40. https://bdsmovement.net/news/consumer-boycott-uk ↩

  41. https://www.grocerygazette.co.uk/2025/05/19/co-op-votes-boycott-israeli/ ↩ ↩2

  42. https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ahrc5923-economy-occupation-economy-genocide-report-special-rapporteur ↩

  43. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/forever-occupation-genocide-and-profit-special-rapporteurs-report-exposes ↩

  44. https://www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/~/media/Files/J/john-lewis/corp/documents/constitution-of-the-john-lewis-partnership.pdf ↩ ↩2

  45. https://www.bheta.co.uk/news/john-lewis-waitrose-to-be-run-as-a-single-business ↩

  46. https://www.israel21c.org/john-lewis-partners-with-cimagine/ ↩

  47. https://www.logisticsmanager.com/xpo-logistics-wins-waitrose-partners-contract/ ↩ ↩2

  48. https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2025/07/04/challenge-to-export-of-military-parts-that-might-be-used-by-israel-fails-in-the-high-court/ ↩

  49. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9964/ ↩

  50. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01459419 ↩ ↩2

  51. https://www.logisticsmanager.com/waitrose-com-offers-more-with-ortec-advanced-planning-solutions/ ↩ ↩2

  52. https://retailtechinnovationhub.com/home/2024/5/31/grocery-giant-waitrose-chooses-trust-retail-inventory-management-solution-to-replace-legacy-technology ↩

  53. https://www.intelligentcio.com/eu/2024/01/24/waitrose-invests-in-ai-driven-search-platform-netcore-unbxd-for-personalised-online-shopping/ ↩

  54. https://www.theregister.com/2014/02/28/john_lewis_goes_oracle/ ↩ ↩2

  55. https://www.wipro.com/newsroom/press-releases/2024/wipro-extends-relationship-with-the-john-lewis-partnership-to-complete-cloud-transformation-project/ ↩ ↩2

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