To wonder if I'm allowed to shop in Waitrose?

[ohmymimi]

One is opening nearby. I'm probably slightly lower middle class, I have ordered on-line from John Lewis, though, and I've never shopped in my pyjamas without a jumper and jeans on top.

So...

0-20% posh: Aldi, Lidl, Poundshops.
20-35% posh: Morrisons, Co-op, Asda.
35-45% posh: Sainsburys, Tesco, but not Finest or Taste The Difference ranges.
45-55% posh: Sainsburys, Tesco, Full range, and Booths (Up North).
55-70% posh: Waitrose, M&S.
70-85% posh: Farmers' markets, organic farm shops/boxes, anywhere with a philosophy.
85% + posh: You have staff for that kind of thing.

I miss out on Morrisons by just 1%.

If you usually shop in Aldi then make sure you take your Aldi bags to Waitrose

Good offer on at the moment. If you do 4 shops on different days and swipe your Waitrose card, they send you a voucher to spend on gorgeous bits in January. So we split the shopping £50 each and put it on two cards to get 2 vouchers.

The checkout lady rumbled us the other day but smiled sweetly and said Good for you. Well she isn't just any old checkout lady, she a Partnership checkout lady, wouldn't you know....

Absolutely, go for it.

Good offer on at the moment. If you do 4 shops on different days and swipe your Waitrose card, they send you a voucher to spend on gorgeous bits in January. So we split the shopping £50 each and put it on two cards to get 2 vouchers.

The checkout lady rumbled us the other day but smiled sweetly and said Good for you. Well she isn't just any old checkout lady, she a Partnership checkout lady, wouldn't you know....

I'm 83% posh. .

What's tesco?

Just did the test on the link here (rather than the Facebook one) and I am 58% posh on this test rather than the 22% scored on fb - not sure whether I am relieved or dismayed , I was enjoying being disreputable....

As you go through the door, a trapdoor will give way beneath your feet, and you will slide down a chute to be deposited in a corner of the underground car park. A video screen will explain that facial recognition software combined with on-line access to your grocery spending history had made it possible to determine that you care how much food costs, and with that in mind they thought it would be kinder to direct you to one of their competitors. You are invited to help yourself to a brochure beneath the screen with a map highlighting the locations of the nearest Tesco, Sainsbury and Asda.

(Inspired by a scene in "Bill, The Galactic Hero", by Harry Harrison. The funniest science fiction story ever written.)

I do my big shop in Aldi then go straight to Waitrose for a free coffee, a few bits I couldn't find beforehand and a free Guardian there are usually plenty left but few Waily Fails of course Invariably the baby disgraces me by standing up in the trolley seat, shouting at the deli staff (one of whom happens to be its auntie) and requiring full use of the changing facilities.

I receive plenty of tuts on account of my orange hair, odd dress sense, spirited bloody noisy 1 year old and occasional loud parenting slip ups along the lines of 'Ooh, gin! Mummy needs gin!'.

But then I sound quite posh no idea why so might just get away with it.

I live in a small town which has a Tesco metro, a large sainsburys, a large ish Asda and a beautiful, spacious, stress free waitrose. It is a thing of wonder. The only time I ever saw it horribly busy was just before Xmas last year when there was a middle aged, middle class revolt following a run on the organic sprouts.

I nip in after school pick up to buy reduced spatchcock poussin - just so my kids can say poussin in an affected twang at school the following day.

I find overly muddy muck boots and a diesel parka to be the perfect attire for shopping there: half media hore/half horsey posh bint.

In other news, I once saw a pfb actually SLAPPING her mother at the tills in waitrose. On the face. I dropped my poussin I was so horrified. The mum then gave her vile little shite daughter a biscuit to appease her. I think hope she was zapped by the old ladies with a neverknowinglyundersold gun on the way out.

When our local Safeway closed and became a Waitrose I cried......tears of joy. DH cried tears of joy too, when he realised that our house had just rocketed in value as a result .

Note - I am foreign and therefore utterly classless, I can shop ANYWHERE

I'm concerned that OP hasn't updated. Has she tried access and was denied it? Or maybe worse?

Fortnums is lovely. It'd be "Breakfast at Fortnums" not Tiffanys for me.

Been reading back a few pages. What the frickety frick do you do with pomegranate molasses?

Helza - what can I say? I feel sad for you.

52% posh, me - (so just squeaked in)

Waitrose aren't that posh. They're at Fleet Services. That's where you stop for the loo on the way to London.

As long as you aren't an oik, they will probably let you in on a week-long trial.

I wish I'd known about the mince pies. They have inexplicably started to sell some of the Waitrose Heston stuff in Coles (like Tesco). I grabbed some ($10 I think ffs) and produced them with a triumphant flourish during drinks with some English friends. We were SO excited, sighed wistfully about Waitrose and saved them for the end of the evening. They were vile. Completely undid all of the plaudits I got for my Heston Chilli.

I always put my YSL lipstick on before I go to Waitrose. I find if you go on Monday afternoon you get all the good stuff marked down and a free coffee helps calm me down before the school run. Would not be seen dead in our local Tesco!

Never been to Waitrose. Our nearest is about 30miles away. I'll stick to Lidl, being underclass I'll not be welcome.