To think Waitrose is actually a cack supermarket

[Gemsy83]

With a very limited range?

In regard to the comment much earlier about being sad people if supermarkets make us happy...well it's a fact of life that all of us have to eat and that food is a huge part of our lives. Shopping - alas - is too. So why not have a place with decent food, friendly service and choice?

I am really fussy about what I feed my family...

Tesco staff get a share of the profits

I love Waitrose an unreasonable amount. I get excited about the fact that all their portk products are free range. Have you tried to get free range ham in sainsburys

I've never had off meat from Waitrose. If you want to shop online you're better off using their own internet shopping site, rather than Ocado.

I like their gourmet ingredients and their mushroom and mascarpone pizzas.

Couldnt do a complete shop there though for price and variety reasons.

I go to the Sheffield one.

The bread is always fresh. The meat and fish are always good quality and nowhere near use by. Never had any off meat. The fruit and veg actually looks nice enough to eat (and after some of the stuff I have had from Asda and Sainburys in the past this is a v good thing.)

I like some things about Waitrose, loathe other things.

Love:

The hot chickens are yum (Tesco's are vile)

The fishmonger's in our local one, although pricey, is very good - very fresh produce and the fishmongers are knowledgable.

Their essential range is good value and pretty good.

Loathe:

They are cold. Always so very cold!

Over-priced fruit and veg which really isn't any better than any other supermarket (...and is always freezing cold to boot. See above)

Ridiculous amounts of poncy packaging they use. Seemingly everything comes in a foil container, double wrapped in cellophane and with a poncy cardboard sleeve.

The 'bakery'. The bread is alright, but the baked goods are awful, bordering stale. Solid cakes, rock hard iced cupcakes. Yuck. Sainsbo's bakery vastly superior.

My local one is full of wax-jacket wearing Tory grannies with lemons up their arses in their mouths.

How dare you question the wonderfulness of Waitrose, it's like insulting the Queen

Actually I do a monthly Asda trolly dash to get all the non perishables[sp?]. I fill my trolly and save a fortune compared to Waitrose prices.

I then visit Waitroses several times a month for all the food and nice bits.

I'm with Deaddei way back and intend to also have my ashes spread in my local Waitrose.

(Made me roar btw Deaddei)

YANBU

It's really really expensive.
The meat is often off when you buy it.
Even their Essentials range is expensive.
They call you Madam (bleugh)

Morrisons is the best supemarket, but I am trying to avoid them all.

I get bread from the bakers
Meat from the butchers
Cheese from the deli
Veggies from the Greengrocers
Tins from the skanky cheapo frozen food shop
Eggs from nearby small farm.(proper free range £2 for a dozen)

But I am lucky to work near good small shops which are much much cheaper than Waitrose, especially as you don't come out with loads of rubbish you didn't really need and that will make you fat!

Waitrose is fab and for everyone that says they are expensive, they price match almost all their branded goods now with Tesco so that isn't expensive at all. Agree their own brand stuff is more expensive than say, ASDA, but it also far superior to their muck.

You can't say that in here !

we don't have one here

I love the indignant waitrose defenders ..whenever someone dares to say on MN they don't like waitrose

Neither do we. One had opened up in Wells a few miles away and caused outrage by seeming to get suspiciously generous planning permission.

The one near me closed down last year ...its not missed

YANBU OP I don't like especially like waitrose either and I think the range in our medium sized local store is poor.

It is also strangely white and souless, I find it quite depressing to be honest.

That being said I did order my wedding cake from Waitrose and it was very nice!

I usually shop in Sainsburys but don't have any particular brand loyalty it just happens to be our nearest supermarket.

I love love love Waitrose, particularly our local one. But I think the branches that used to be Safeways aren't as good.

All the staff are really nice and helpful, they have a brilliant range (much better than the massive Tesco near us) and it's a nice environment to shop in. I don't think it's any more expensive than other places for the stuff we buy.

I am biaised though as they gave me a free bottle of champagne when I had DD .

I didn't have her in Waitrose itself BTW, have just been going there for years and they are nice.

YABU I LOVE Waitrose, a much more calm atmosphere than Tesco

I'm lucky we have waitrose as our local shop less than five minutes away but I do admit to nipping across the street to buy White sliced loaf and normal White potatoes from iceland!!!
The meat in waitrose tastes like meat not the tasteless protein you can buy in asda.
I do pop to the other side of town to tesco occasionally to have a browse through the clothes books DVDs etc though.

We use, and love, Ocado. Tesco delivery, which we used before, were lamentable and the final straw was when they turned up without any bread and said they had no suitable substitute at all. Waitrose has a fantastic range of interesting food. Although having been to Booth's while on holiday once, I do have envy. It was brilliant.

My mother adores Waitrose because 'you get a much nicer class of assistant there'. I once had to take her to a Tesco and she was muttering the whole way round - by the time we got to the checkout I was ready to kill her...but she finished me off by saying to the (extremely pleasant) cashier 'You get better cardboard boxes in Waitrose you know..'.

I gave the poor girl a very sympathetic smile

I'm shocked. Traumatised. How could anyone think like that.

Waitrose rocks for food (not for branded cleaning products which are very expensive).

It's my nearest supermarket and that's why I shop there.

DS (4) is a fussy eater - he only ate meat when it was from waitrose. So must be good.

He's now a veggie at 4.5!But still grateful to waitrose.