To think that people who shop in Waitrose are pretentious prats

[Asdashopper]

well am I ????

[southeastastra]

the thread yesterday was asking for this one to be started, however 'ironic' it was meant to be.

and btw co-op is the best and most ethical shop so there

[expatinscotland]

YABU.

Who cares where people shop? If it suits them, so what?

[WoollyMittens]

I do all my shopping at The 'Trose

What exactly am I pretending to be?

[MsKalo]

Ho ho! I lurrrrve waitrose but don't shop there a lot as it is sooooo expensive! I don't think I am a pretentious prat but I have seen plenty of pretentious arseholes in there - and there do seem to be more arses in there than other places! ;-)
Some of 'the people who shop in there are sooooo up themselves but not all!

[Miggsie]

Nice small stores, friendly staff, good food, no aisles and aisles of crap, very little likelihood of getting a trolley rammed into your ankles, my company does discount vouchers as a staff perk...

Pretentious, moi?

[granted]

I love Waitrose. Favourite shop in the whole world. Never considered if it's pretentious - it just sells food doesn't it? How can eating yummy food be something you do to pretend anything to anyone - you just do it because it tastes nice, right?

Sadly too poor to have a Waitrose habit - just a v v occasional treat. People in there seem perfectly normal to me, just a bit richer than average.

[susie100]

I love Ocado, often just as cheap as Tesco and the van drivers are so nice. One unpacked my entire shop for me when I had a broken leg.

Asda - have not been back since I heard a child beingn called a stupid cunt by its mother and when I said something to comfort the neat hysterical 3 year old, was told to my mind my own business as I was a stuck up cow. Nice. Also the food always goes off after about 2 days so no good for a weekly shop.

however, best is sainsbos in my view.
World food section is ace and I can find lots of Italian goodies in there that remind me of home :)

[TheEvilDead2]

Not pretentious, but confused. Waitrose is crap.

[NoahAndTheWhale]

I go to Morrisons generally. A Waitrose just opened in the last week very near to Morrisons so may go in. I do like Waitrose but it has too many tempting things.

I go in Asda sometimes but not for a big shop. Tesco ends up with me buying too many non-food items. Am getting an amount of things in Sainsburys at the moment due to getting extra nectar points on them (am a sucker for more points ).

But Morrisons is good for our usual shop.

[Odelay]

i think waitrose is a bit wank and there is a definite touch of emperors new clothes regarding their 'superior' quality, perhaps if you live off ready meals that may be true, but a carrot is a carrot wherever it comes from. however it is the only supermarket in the town where i live, and indeed for about 15 miles around so we all have to shop there - even the chavs

[PosieComeHereMyPreciousParker]

Nice Tescos? Golden Hill.
Two Waitrose, one in Henleaze and one in Clifton/Park Street.
When I do my price comparison Sainsburys/Tesco or Asda comes up. Usually Tescos.

[piprabbit]

I think the OP has missed the point completely.

Going to the supermarket yourself, any supermarket, is simply too common. Nobody shopping in a supermarket has any claim to pretentiousness.

I, of course, do all my shopping in small local retailers. My butcher wears a straw boater and stripy apron and my fishmonger puts aside the best of the catch for my perusal. Who do you think shops at the new frightfully expensive artisanal bakeries?

Unfortunately, the wicker basket I use doesn't hold much shopping so I do need to top up with the bulkier bits and pieces. I get an organic veggie box delivered weekly, and a lovely man from Ocado delivers the rest.

If we have a real emergency, then I may send the au pair to the supermarket to pick up a couple of items.

[ElspethDiggory]

YY Southeastra - the Co-op is the best! Shame I don't have a big one near me otherwise I would definitely do my weekly shop there.

[PosieComeHereMyPreciousParker]

Odelay, Waitrose is pretty ethical and stock class B vegetables and their range of foods is brilliant.

[NerdyFace]

Best line ever, heard by my partner in a Tesco in Swansea

"AMBROSIAS!!! OCTAVIUS!!! STOP FUCKING AROUND WITH THAT BARBIE AND COME HERE NOW!!"


Now for anyone in the know, "Ambrosias" was the name of the dog from "Labyrinth" so my partner had to pick herself up off the floor from laughing from imaging a child riding towards the mother on a small dog!

[Islandlady]

Well I am afraid you will have to call my CAT a pretentious prat because when we were in London we only went to Waitrose to buy their own brand cat food as he likes it above all others.

They are building a Waitrose in East Cowes in fact I think it opened yesterday so as its a nice sunny day I might pop along there
any thing to keep puss happy plus I cant go to the independant Butchers in West Cowes at the same time

[nancy75]

I love waitrose, i have only been in one asda and my feet stuck to the floor - once i managed to free myself i vowed never to return!

[PosieComeHereMyPreciousParker]

NerdyFace

[5DollarShake]

Odelay - I've tried various Supermarket own brand ranges and in most cases, simply wouldn't buy them a second time because either the food is rank, or the product doesn't work - washing powder being a case in point.

The Waitrose Essential range is great - never had a problem with any of it.

Also, they use free-range eggs in WE products such a mayonnaises and sauces.

And as Posie says, their products and ingredients are more ethically sourced.

[5DollarShake]

I remember having to boil Sainsbo's Basics dried pasta for about half an hour to get it even approaching something like al dente. And their frozen peas were like bullets.

[LunarSea]

We do:

Tesco... nearest, but local one isn't huge. OK, nothing to paricularly write home about, but not bad either.

Sainsbury's... most of the time. By default really as ds1 one does an activity nearby which means I've got to be there for an hour twice a week anyway.

Lidl...buy selectively, not for a full shop: good for pesto, continental deli meats, decent but inexpensive orange juice, part baked walnut bread/ciabatta, chocolate, frozn goose, german sausage, continental Christmas foods (leberkuchen, gluhwein, etc). Often get Waitrose shoppers saying "ooh where did you get ?" to Lidl items!

Aldi...see Lidl - but isn't very local so don't use it often.

Waitrose... occasionally (bit of a pain to get to as it's in a town I'm not usually stopping/shopping in) - good for an intersting selection of cheeses, or something different for a special meal.

Morrisions... good for bread, sausage rolls, fish, real Wensleydale, frozen baby sweetcorn (can't find that anywhere else).

M&S - too expensive for regular use. Occasionally splash out on the meal for £10 deal.

Iceland - occasionally if we're catering for an event (frozen bhajis are good) and need to bulk buy.

Makro - used to be good for bulk buys/more restauranty desserts but they closed the local one

Asda....rarely. Never entirely convinced by the quality of non-branded things, and always has horrendous queues for the tills.

Farmfoods... good for stocking freezer with standby frozen veg the others don't have. Local one got taken over by M&S and closed though.

[sherby]

its Cowes not West Cowes

[Boobalina]

M&S are good for their 3 for £10 on meat - which includes roast beef / whole chickens blah.. and is nice meat.

Waitrose essentials are really good too. I can do a weekly shop for a family of three for £70