I am in Waitrose. Would I be unreasonable...

[seeker]

......to run beserk up and down the aisles with a machine gun spraying bullets indiscriminately?

stealth I was walking around Kingston yesterday at about 10 in the morning, and the whole centre was completely dead. Except for the Apple shop which was absolutely RAMMED with people. I wonder if they hire them to outnumber the staff (which is hard considering there's 245 of them)

Your Waitrose has a cafe? [jealous]

And how can you not love a store that regards this as an Essential product.

NoWay, did you spot me? Fat, knackered, manic looking middle aged woman with newborn wandering round Kingston waiting for my turn for the Apple lords to deign to talk to me Genius bar slot. :o

NO......they are always there alone or with other men. It is weird to see so many men in a supermarket during the day.

I can't cope with the friendliness of Apple staff. I feel they might lick me, like a puppy.

Also, last time I went in I was served by a kid who said, "ooh, my mum does that with her phone too" .

I also like Waitrose, but none near me (what does that tell you?!).

Mostly the serene is being surrounded by lovely food (sorry I never get that feeling in Lidl, Aldi etc. more panicky "please don't make me eat that stuff"!

But an overdose of smugness can set my teeth on edge ... very slightly...

It aint calm and serene when we get in there!

We have a brand spanking new waitrose, with a cafe and ecologically friendly. It's lovely on a weekday but I HATE taking the kids there. Four of the buggers and they might as well be armed with machine guns for all the noise they make.

barry, have u been to the Apple store in Westfield? They are arrogant, unhelpful twats in there!

YABU. Need to go to Morrisons and start in the car park.

Seeker I feel your pain, DD1 and I ended up in ours on an ordinary term day (no other DCs, she'd had a dentist check up and needed lunch before going back to school)
I felt so scruffy jeans and new animal hoody. Talk about ladies and Gentlemen who lunch!
It was very nice cultured lunch though much enjoyed.

I love our Waitrose. It's near a not so good area. I wonder where they get the customers from as they're not the people from the local area! They must be shipped in!
It also has a cafe.

Hops, this was in Westfield!

He must have been about 22, I am 34. Cheeky fuck!

Gwendoline I was too busy gawping at the number of store assistants to pay much attention to anything else - it was just so surreal standing in an empty shopping centre staring "through the looking glass" at this bizarre landscape not dissimilar to a club on a Saturday night!

Personally, I love Waitrose - it keeps the riff-raff out of the farm shop!

That's what my mum said :o She was posted outside on the bench with dd2, surveying the scene and shaking her head...

Just been there. We're you loitering beside the sushi counter muttering to yourself about 'they all have to die...'?

Please be sure to leave your shopping list in the trolley!

Everything Posie said.

I too feel all serene and "happier with my lot" (however transient!) when in Waitrose or John Lewis Home

I was beaten to a trolley with a very promising looking list the other day. What is worse, the woman who grabbed it didn't look as though she would appreciate the list at all.

Maybe I should be worried about this machine gun thing. I felt it at dd's school recently, sitting in the audience at a dance evening. One more pashmina and I would have cracked.

One of my colleagues brought some Heston Blumenthal mince pies (with Pine Sugar for dusting) into the staff room at Xmas.

Said pine sugar honestly smelled like cleaning fluid.

We don't have a waitrose in my town though. Oh the humanity.

Take your bad vibes out of lovely Waitrose, you're spoiling the nice atmosphere!

Ok our Waitrose is in a posh retirement town, but the lunch customers were more dressed up than at the local properly posh £50 a head restaurant

It's not a nice atmosphere!

It's like a cross between Matins in a village church and the Conservative Party Conference.