AIBU to want to shop at John Lewis for buttons, not a Brazilian?

[Quandry]

OMG. Never mind Brexit. If anything is likely to drive me out of the UK it's this:
John Lewis to swap haberdashery for bikini waxes and prosecco bars under new boss

The last bastion of Middle England is to be RUINED by some new upstart boss who thinks we care more about our minge than our muslin!

I'm warning her - there will be rioting in the streets...

A nice hair salon would be better. Or revamping their cafes to provide more choice.

Not Brazilian waxing and prosecco.

I've never had a bikini wax but I can't imagine it's likely to be 'fun'
Even if I was pissed on prosecco

Why would I go all the way to Peter Jones or Oxford St to get a wax I can get nearby?

"Yes hello John Lewis customer service. My minge is not as well topiared as 'minges R us' down the street. I enclose a picture of last months minge done at 'minges R us' and today's minge which was topiared at the Croydon branch by Sharon.

I will expect a refund under your 'never knowingly undersold' policy as Trevor's not happy"

Who the actual fuck in the history of shopping has wandered into a department store and thought, oh I know I'll just get my fanjo out. Hmm I need some eye cream perhaps but not I'll have some random person pour hot wax on my lady garden. Ffs.

And I like wool and buttons. I've just learned how to use them. Next on my list of useful things to do is learn to sew. I was going to buy a pretty machine from John Lewis. Gits.

No! I love the JL haberdashery. I get all my buttons etc from there, and most of my yarn.

I still want to buy buttons and most certainly do not want my pink button's surrounding area defuzzed by a John Lewis partner next to the Bobby Brown counter.

I have recently marveled at the wonder of John Lewis made to measure blinds service, delivered in 7 days- to my house where I have prosecco- I don't think they have it right here, I wouldn't go there for a wax!

I will have no reason to go into Lewis's if they get rid of the haberdashery department.

One the highlights of me trundling up to Newcastle for the day is fondling the wool in the haberdashery and sighing over the buttons and ribbon etc

Do you remember when JL Newcastle was Bainbridges, Gatekeeper?

I go to John Lewis because they have everything and I can absolutely rely on it to be in stock. I might come with an errand list of a new mattress, two school dresses, some bobby pins, an alarm clock, sheets and a jumper for me.

Many of these things are available cheaper or better elsewhere, but I can rely on it and don't have to wait, they deliver the lot the day after. If they get rid of parts (even not so high selling ones) I might not go at all.

So lose the bobby pins and I might get my mattress cheaper from IKEA and the jumper from a larger choice at the Jaeger store since I have to go to more than one place anyway.

Ffs. First Brexit, then Trump. Now JL is going down the pan?

That's it. I give up. I'm going to live in a cave. On an island.

I think their new boss is misjudging their customers if they think this is the right thing to do. I concede that perhaps haberdashery may not be massively profitable, but waxing and prosecco bar is so TOWIE - not at all what JL stands for.

To say nothing of setting back Women at the top 50 years - of course all we are concerned about is waxing and wine FFS. I would rather they bring back the focus on customer service, sorting out pricing and insurances on household white goods and furniture and didn't jump on the latest fads just for the sake of it - they need to be a cut above mainstream otherwise they risk devaluing their brand significantly

for the love of all things sacred, NO!

Not that I'm a huge haberdashery dept user but it is one of the best going - can't they have both - brazilians and buttons??!!

Boots tried having beauty salons in its stores didn't it? It didn't work out very well

oh ffs

not everyone aspires to the Essex lifestyle of preening and sipping cocktails in-between shopping for bags

this not what John Lewis is about at all its a grown up shop for grown up's who want quality products at a good price. we can pretend if we so wish we are ladies who shop sipping prosecco at a number of bars that have popped up and do we really need another waxing/nail salon

This is indeed shocking but, then, it's a sad and unpalatable truth that John Lewis harberdashery departments have already been downgraded. They're a shadow of what they were 25 years ago - the departments in Oxford Street and Sloane Square used to cover half a floor and now they're basically a cubbyhole.

Truly, we are living in the end of days.

Services lost money big time for Boots. Just saying.

Exactly, paxillin, reasons to visit. You need lots of them as a shop to get customers in, especially if you're not the cheapest.

The city I live in has a very recently opened, new JL. The haberdashery section is much smaller than I would have hoped for :(

What?! I like a bottle glass of prosecco more as much as the next person and I can't craft for shit but even I would hate to see the JL haberdashery go. I like to browse the shiny things and pretend I can knit.

Silly bitch.

What EnthusiasmDisturbed said.

I remember the much-lamented Pratts of Streatham and the days when JL in Reading was Heelas.

I think I have found my people.

I actually wrote to JL about their Haberdashery Department a couple of years ago. It's utter crap. They NEED me to get in there and sort it out. They're missing all kinds of boats with it. I live in hope but every time I go in there I come out disappointed. They let me down and they let themselves down.