Are you 'stuck up'?

[Ramy48]

If you only shop at Marks and Waitrose?

We shop in m&s and waitrose and are definitely not stuck up. I would argue that you don't have to be flush either.

No, but you are probably wasting lots of money if you are

I've never really bothered buying food from M&S unless an emergency as our nearest one is right in the middle of town so a PITA. Those chips sound yum though!! I wish they had an online shop and delivery service.

No. Waitrose actually comes out cheaper on my grocery comparison

Nope sorry ipadmad. As with Shoot waitrose comes out either cheaper or the same, hence why we changed from tesco.

The bonus is that you don't get ripped off like you do with tesco.

It does make you sound a bit posh!
I live in a rather affluent area but there is a Lidl opening within walking distance soon and the whole town is alight with expectation. I have tried all the different online options and found tesco the best overall though. If I could afford it I would live on waitrose and m&s.

Sparklingbrook that's good to know about Iceland. M&S is closer to me though and Iceland is in the dodgy part of my town where the local drug dealers like to congregate so I tend to avoid it.

When I was a child my mother was a LP and a student. We were very hard up and we didn't have a car. She only shopped in Waitrose because it was the only supermarket within walking distance. She used to walk round with a calculator as she did her shopping. Probably a totally irrelevant anecdote, but there you go

I much prefer shopping in M&S and Waitrose to other shops tbh. I have autism and as a result have sensory issues. The lighting in some other places (Asda is the worst culprit ) just causes me stress and I find I can't stay in there for long. I never have a problem with the lighting in M&S or Waitrose though so I find shopping there a lot less stressful than other places.

Also where I'm from they don't tend to be as busy as other places. The Asda near me (yup, going back to Asda again ) is always overcrowded which again doesn't help my sensory issues.

If this makes me stuck up, then so be it.

Toads, both our local Tesco and Asda are hellish from a sensory point of view. Our nearest big superarket is a Tesco extra and DS1 used to scream all the way around it, as a baby.

Sainsburys is much better, as it has a proper suspended ceiling. The new, smaller one that doesn't is just plain smaller, so we usually get out before anyone flips. Loved the quietness of Waitrose, when we had one. The beauty of our nearest decent M&S food hall is that it's not a vast one, but has 95% of the range, yest is small enough for me to get around alone, or with just one boy, while DH entertains the other(s) in nearby Smyths, or wherever.

DS1 is driven to distraction by the coloured stationery display near the food hall checkouts, though. It's never perfect, with orange in the blue and small notebooks in with the big ones, or sage green in with emerald green. He gets quite upset by it.