Chalk it up as a mini coup for the John Lewis Partnership. The next chair had to be a nuts-and-bolts operator with recent frontline retail experience, almost everybody agreed, and the employee-owned group has landed someone who fits the bill.
Jason Tarry spent 33 years at Tesco, the UK’s biggest retailer by a distance, and is regarded as having put in a successful six-year shift as head of its UK and Irish operations until he quit last autumn. He was there for the fightback after the 2014 accounting scandal, and was in charge during the wild Covid times for supermarkets.
