Calling the middle classes...!

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If you could only save one, and the other would disappear overnight...

Marks and Spencer or Waitrose/John Lewis?

Can't stand Percy Pigs 🤮

low end high street ?

low end 😂

Booths is quite N England-centric, isn’t it? We don’t have Booths this side of the border.

Well as there are only 3 JL sores in Scotland and 6 Waitrose i couldn't careless about them. Even if i was still in the Shires i would want M&S over the JL partnership.

They are completely different shops. JL is a department store. If I could only use one ever again of course it would be JL, you can’t buy luggage, a washing machine, a pram, haberdashery etc., from M&S.

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Am I missing something here? Most people are working class and couldn't afford to shop there regularly so you'd have to be middle class (or above) for that.
Like I said though I'm a peasant who enjoys the occasional cake out of the m and s bakery I just couldn't shop there regularly

I've just come back from Little Waitrose at a motorway service station. Nobody stopped me at the door or required me to fill in a questionnaire. Maybe it's different at service stations though.

No Waitrose close to where I live so I will keep M&S.

I can’t choose!!!!😬

I will keep M&S as I can't afford JL prices, but can just about stretch to the odd cheese and celery sandwich.

Both M&S and Waitrose/JL suffer from quality issues. Both food options are terrible, tasteless fruit and veg, and, often, watery meats. I prefer my local butchers, greengrocers and speciality shops.

For anything else, I usually can’t get the brand I prefer in JL or M&S so no great loss. Bin them both. Aspirational hellholes.

John Lewis and Waitrose.

I feel M&S has lost their touch a little over the years. Only thing I will miss is Percy the Pig on occasion.

Waitrose/John Lewis - without a doubt.

M&S

Since moving out Edinburgh John Lewis and Waitrose are too far away

Please don’t make me do this.

“Percy the Pig!” 😂😂😂 Your post has made my day!

Save M&S! I worked at JL in my late teens/early 20's and it was like a weird cult so I've never found the love for it that others seem to have.

Booths. I'd save Booths. Better than both M&S or Waitrose.

Percy the Pig is crap since it went woke and vegan (they had 2 versions before which was great)

But I dont think most people do shop there regularly.
It is treats and top ups- that is the food that they sell and how they market.

Those buying M&S through Ocado probably buy more of a weekly shop but I would suggest that a relatively small number of food customers are doing a full weekly shop.

You are very optimistic to think that you can buy them in JL most days. Their stock control is dire. Probably more chance of getting a pram than a pair of black women's socks

JL/Waitrose without a doubt.

I'd need an amalgamation. M&S for the clothes, J Ls for the household goods. I dont care about M&S food or Waitrose, I buy both but neither in any great quantity.

The only thing I really buy from either is underwear from M&S, so I’d have to save them. I don’t think I’m properly middle class though and suspect this is one of the markers. I’m a teacher, as were my parents, but I’ve never felt ‘middle class’. Culturally working class, that’s me.