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Now the owners of Brent Cross Shopping Centre, bear with me, are suing John Lewis
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Simon, why is this important? Its anchor tenant is John Lewis and has been since it opened in the 70s
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But it's had a bit of an argument with the owners of the shopping centre
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Hammerson, over the way it pays its rent. It pays a certain share of its sales in the shop as rent
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But what John Lewis has been doing up until now is they've excluded click and collect sales from the rental calculation
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And Hammerson have got a bit cross about this. And they say, actually, no, you've got to include that
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John Lewis have got out their original lease agreement from the 70s
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which is still the one that stands now, which has no mention of click and collect
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You'll be shocked to hear. What a huge legal error from their team there that they couldn't see it coming
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It does say that telephone orders should be included in rental calculations
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And Hammerson say, well, click and collect is the modern telephone order. Thank you
