Alternatives and competitors
Sites like John Lewis
The 20 closest department store alternatives to John Lewis, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 11 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to John Lewis? The closest matches are Wayfair, Marks & Spencer and Macy's. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About John Lewis
John Lewis johnlewis.com
John Lewis & Partners | Never Knowingly Undersold
Proudly shaping British life for over 150 years, John Lewis blends timeless tradition with modern living across homeware, fashion, and technology. Discover the difference today.
Wikidata: British department store chain owned by John Lewis Partnership
Summary by Claude
Online store of the British department store chain John Lewis, selling homeware, furniture, fashion, beauty, electrical appliances and technology, with delivery and click-and-collect from its UK stores.
- Who it’s for
- UK consumers
- Business model
- Retail sales
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to John Lewis’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to John Lewis
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to John Lewis, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Wayfair.com - Online Home Store for Furniture, Decor, Outdoors & More
Shop Wayfair for A Zillion Things Home across all styles and budgets. 5,000 brands of furniture, lighting, cookware, and more. Free Shipping on most items.
Very close cos 0.914 - 02
M&S | Marks & Spencer | Fashion, Home, Beauty, Food & Gifts
Shop on-trend womenswear, quality menswear, home and beauty essentials and mouth-watering food and drink. Order online with free delivery or collection at M&S
Very close cos 0.907 - 03
department store chain in the United States
Very close cos 0.906 - 04
OTTO - Mode, Möbel & Technik » Zum Online-Shop
OTTO Online-Shop » Viele Marken ✓ Tolle Angebote ✓ Top Service » Ratenkauf ✓ Kauf auf Rechnung ✓ Altgeräte-Mitnahme ✓ Aufbauservice ✓ Jetzt shoppen!
Very close cos 0.903 - 05
We Are Currently Unable to Provide a Shopping Experience for this Country
American department store chain
Very close cos 0.902 - 06
building in State of Mexico, Mexico
Very close cos 0.899 - 07
Target : Expect More. Pay Less.
Shop Target online and in-store for everything from groceries and essentials to clothing and electronics. Choose contactless pickup or delivery today.
Very close cos 0.900 - 08
British retailer
Very close cos 0.895 - 09
LOUIS VUITTON
French fashion house and luxury retail company
Close cos 0.891 - 10
fnac.com
French multinational electronics store chain
Close cos 0.893 - 11
American chain of luxury department stores
Close cos 0.891 - 12
Spanish department store group
Close cos 0.889 - 13
American department store chain
Close cos 0.890 - 14
North American arts and crafts retail chain
Close cos 0.888 - 15
etsy.com
American e-commerce company
Close cos 0.892 - 16
American multinational home improvement supplies retailing company
Close cos 0.890 - 17
leroymerlin.fr
French home improvement and gardening retailer
Close cos 0.887 - 18
Walmart | Save Money. Live better.
Shop Walmart.com today for Every Day Low Prices. Join Walmart+ for unlimited free delivery from your store & free shipping with no order minimum. Start your free 30-day trial now!
Close cos 0.885 - 19
Swedish multinational clothing-retail company
Close cos 0.885 - 20
Women's & Men's Clothing, Shop Online Fashion | SHEIN
From shoes to clothing, from sports equipment to accessories. All fashion inspiration & the latest trends can be found online at SHEIN
Close cos 0.885
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to johnlewis.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones John Lewis uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What John Lewis is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Security
- Akamai Bot Manager cookie bm_sz
- CDN
- Akamai header x-akamai-transformed: 0 - 0 -
- Email hosting
- Proofpoint MX mxa-00921b02.gslb.pphosted.com
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS a11-64.akam.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=ec5478fb46ee84b278f2b8c16e951fa187f62ed39…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=Iu62gpmMq8na6jLmilq9SoiQeVoPwQuJlvVQShFwnk4
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: UFP6IDnwksMxt3yY8_cm_4pdQ-uiwxqvSq6VNAgX1s8
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=tf73g8xccn515y2mdbs3id3hir89fn
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 ip4:193.35.248.0/21 ip4:212.117.224.200/29 ip4:195.11.6.128 ip…
Stack changes
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What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on johnlewis.com 17/20
- Apple Business 14/20
- Atlassian · not on johnlewis.com 14/20
- Adobe 12/20
- Akamai Edge DNS 12/20
- OneTrust · not on johnlewis.com 11/20
- Akamai 11/20
- Miro · not on johnlewis.com 9/20
- Proofpoint 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 8/20
- DocuSign · not on johnlewis.com 7/20
- OpenAI · not on johnlewis.com 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on johnlewis.com 4/20
- Google Workspace · not on johnlewis.com 4/20
- Next.js 4/20