To think that people who shop in Waitrose are pretentious prats

[Asdashopper]

well am I ????

Last time I went to a big Tesco's, which was last year on holiday on Cornwall, it was just aisles and aisles of shit I didn't want to buy.

5DollarShake- If you can be selective in which ingredients you economise on pasta and peas are bad ones. Good pasta makes all the difference and all frozen peas except birds eye are shit.

Oh - I also go to Iceland for McCains Home Fries as they are the only acceptable oven chips and nowhere else round here stocks them.

when I lived in Asia I got my housekeeper to shop. I don't know what that makes me. A cunt, probably.

otchayniye!

I spend less in Waitrose (probably because there is less crap to buy), and it is a much calmer experience. You aren't rushed through the tills. We are the common shouty family there. Asbos is awful. I went to the Chandlers Ford branch in the summer. Twas horrible. The sausages were funny looking.

Waitrose essentials loo roll is the bestest, too.

Given our diet is limited by a combination of special diets I don't find Waitrose any more costly- I can;t buy cheap offers anyway, there's always someone can't eat it. Plus things like goat milk butter more widely available.

Now, there isn't one on the town anyhoo so don't actually shop there often, but when I have is same.

Yes, YABU. Inverted snobbery is no less ugly than plain ordinary snobbery. People shop where they find the best balance between quality, price and service that is within their budget. It's really no more complicated that than.

I love love love Waitrose, I go there quite often, and I'm as common as muck. Well I do need to spend all my "new money" somewhere!

I have found the middle way. Cannot bear the hell that is Asda and Waitrose though lovely is abit pricey. But there is a large Co-Op near me which is always empty bar polite grannies and very nice mums. Empty car parks and nice food. Helpful staff because they havent got much to do. Relatively cheap without attracting frightening people. Feeling very smug now.

No Waitrose near here, agree with Vinny Booths is fab, though still a trek for us, worth it though.

Have recently converted from Tesco to Sainsburys. Seems that their half price toy sale really does reel em in. The fruit/veg and meat is loads better quality.

Asda near us is not too bad, I just don't like the food very much.

Lidl is full of people looking sheepish if you recognise them. Have no idea why, I don't think it is actually cheaper anyway, I spend waay more if I go there.
Mainly on their rip-off Baileys

PosieComeHereMyPreciousParker not sure what a class B vegetable is, but if that means that they only stock ones of a certain size and colour there isn't much ethical about that (if it means something else entirely ignore me )

worcester sauce twiglets? They STILL DO THEM??

That is the best news I have had all week.

LOVE Waitrose, especially their essentials range - much cheaper and better quality than most other supermarkets' 'finest' range. :)

I also love Waitrose Cafes, we have been known to seek them out on holidays

YABU and a rude prat.

Waitrose price matches Tesco on hundreds of items (these are labelled), has fresher and better quality fresh produce than Sainsburys, and is a far more pleasant place to shop than any other supermarket I go to. I use the self scanners and the ones at Sainsburys this morning were filthy - I really didn't want to carry it round the shop. Waitrose treats its suppliers well, sources ethically produced meat, poultry, dairy etc, and treats its staff well - if you work for Waitrose, you are a shareholder in the company and profit from their profits.

Of course you aren't being unreasonable.

All Waitrose shoppers are pretentious prats
All Asda shoppers are scummy chaves
All Tesco shoppers are common and cheap
All Morrisons shoppers are Northern and buy pies
All Sainsburys shoppers are middle of the road and boring...

Left anyone out?

BTW NEVER attack Waitrose on MN. Tis against the law But Asda is fair game.

aquamortis honestly I expected the thread to stop when I mentioned them, as everyone should have immediately run to to the nearest Waitrose to pick up a bag or three. I only found them by chance, myself.

I've just checked Ocado, and I don't see them. :( Maybe they'll be up soon.

ooh, I've failed on striking things out. Should have previewed, lesson learned.

Boobalina = £70 for a family of three isn't that impressive ya know.....

What about COSTCO???

I shop there once a month for all the big stuff. Their meat is also fab and it all goes in the freezer..

Otherwise its Ocado or the local village shop for us.

not sure what that makes me - tight rural pretentious prat?

I occasionally shop at Waitrose because it has the only free parking in our town. It's much cheaper than Bootses for normal not fancy organic nonsense baby stuff.

The checkout staff are miserable as sin though. We joke that they kept the staff from when it was Safeways, just washed them and put them back.

We've got a 'rough' Tesco, and a 'posh' Tesco. The rough tesco is absolutely the best place to go for a huge selection of world/ethnic foods that aren't over-priced and poncily packaged for non-ethnic middle-class white indigenous shoppers. Who would pay 2 quid for a tiny jar of Schwartz spice when you can buy a whole bag for 70p? Having said that, there is a limit to how much cumin I can get through, but even so!

lol at Ormirian - was just about to say I was laughing at the level of vitriol at people slagging off pretentious waitrosrs, however everyone was fine with Asda being called chav central yesterday.

I include myself in this by the way - yes I do shop in Waitrose, yes I am a pretentious twat.

The spices etc in Waitrose are ridiculously overpriced - yes you have some prettily packaged Nigella seeds in waitrose for £3 a jar, however go to Asda (or even better, the Indian grocers down the side streets in Gloucester where, frankly, most Waitrose shoppers would be too scared to go down) and you can buy kalonji for 50p a pop.

I agree with Riven that in some places coconut milk is so overpriced - I use it all the time so refuse to pay marked up prices.

Same with tomatoes - i am not paying upwards of 70p for a tin of toms, where in the ethnic foods aisle I can buy indian packaged tins for 15p (indian tomatoes far better for curries anyway, italian tomatoes toO sweet to add a wrong note).