Sainsburys is posh, isn't it?

[HoneyDragon]

I mean it is toward the upper end of Poshness isn't it? Coming after Harrods food hall, Selfridge food hall, Booths, M&S, Waitrose then Sainsbury's.

Artisan shops and veg box deliveries probably come between M&S and Waitrose I reckon?

It's definitely posher than Tesco.

I don't know why I've done this op actually. I am so not unreasonable.

My DM used to shop in Kwik Save. 😁

To me, Waitrose is the poshest. I've never actually been in one. Am I missing out?

Then comes M&S. Only time I shop there is around Christmas.

Sainsburys is in the middle. Then Tesco and Asda, Lidl and Aldi.

I do my main shop in Asda and get most of 3yo DS's clothes from there.

Yep, i remember the old days when petrol stations only sold petrol and tinned travel sweets!

Tired - Pissed on the floor????!!!! Please explain!! Who is 'they'?

The clientele of a certain Sainsburys in SE London. Male and Female! Both used to regularly (daily) piss on the floor. One customer once got up on the belt to piss (that was fun) 50 plus shop lifters/card fraud arrested a week. Staff assaulted constantly. That was 20 years ago and got worse since then. I worked in about a dozen JS stores in SE london and the at head office. Some are, always have been, and still are dog rough.

When I move north I was shocked at how poor the Sainsburys were. My local store stinks of bleach in the meat aisle which isn't good.

Sainsburys in Reading has everything security tagged- so it must be pretty rough.

Does no one here shop at Iceland then?

i don't regard any supermarket as posh, more expensive perhaps but never posh i shop at waitrose, m&s as well as lidl, all the same imo. it's the clientele that tends to be different.

I shop at iceland. Its in town, clean and very reasonable.
I can get a few bargains in there!

I don't think it's posh as such but it's definitely a nicer experience. The clothes are nice to browse round (nicer I think than Asda or Tesco) and there are generally nibblies on the deli counter top and tasting things at the weekend so we take the children on a saturday morning to buy nice things for lunch and hopefully get to taste some cheese/pizza/whatever they are trying to launch.

I find the actual shops nicer too, higher ceilings, wider aisles etc.

I'm very disloyal to supermarkets so cost wise it balances out - I just dont get some things when it's a sainsbury shop week because I know I can get it much cheaper somewhere else when I go the following week. Does that make sense.

I find Sainsbury's more expensive for a biggish shop than Waitrose, but poorer quality. Will go if I have to, because it's my nearest big supermarket but prefer a mix of Ocado and Lidl for general shopping.

Would rank a Tesco and Asda below Sainsbos in poshness terms.

I'm a regular at Iceland.

BitchQueen90 I used to work there in the late 90s

I use all the supermarkets, they all have bargains and they're all good for certain things. I have a shopping brain like a computer. Never use a list and know the best prices for everything.

I love shopping, it's my hobby.

It's far from posh, it's basically Tesco's!

I don't think M&S or Waitrose are posh either, just expensive.

I do think Sainsburys is a bit better than Tesco, just because of the fruit and veg. Tesco fruit and veg is kind of horrible. It seems to be either seriously unripe and sour or on the point of rotting where I am even for stuff that is absolutely in season (this may be just that our local Tesco is shite). Sainsers is not posh, though. Surely it's just standard middle of the road? It is where I shop and I am not posh!

Agree with you OP. Posher and more expensive than Tescos. I very rarely get anything from Sainsburys. Tesco, Asda and Iceland are my main ones.

I'm surprised people would put Morrisons below Tesco. My list would be

Farmers market
M and s
Waitrose
Sainsbury's
Morrisons
Tesco
Asda
Lidl
Aldi

I'm old enough to have had a Saturday job at Budgen's in the 1960s. Later when children were small, I worked evenings in Sainsburys. Now as a pensioner, albeit one who is still working, I still prefer Sainsburys to all others. I like M&S for certain items, the £10 meal deals, are great. Although you do have to watch their sell by dates. Very frustrating to get home with bread or cake and find it's already on it's best before date.

I don't know about posh, but I do find Sainsburys easier to get around and, somehow, the customers are nicer than Asda and Aldi. In Asda, on two different occasions, big burly men have stumbled into me. Coincidence maybe, but unnerving when you are older and feel more vulnerable.

Waitrose/M & S
Tesco/Sainsburys
Morrisons/Asda
Aldi/Lidl
although I've always described Lidl as a slightly more up market version of Aldi.

For the record, I shop mainly at Aldi although the quality of their fresh fruit & veg seems to have fallen recently.

My MIL shops in tesco, she is very posh.
My local Lidl is quite posh.
My mum used to shop in Kwick Save, Morrisons and Netto.

Sainsbury's is not posh. It's just expensive. It wants to be posh but the quality isn't there. It's the Hyacinth Bucket of supermarkets. And their sandwiches are crap.
Tesco is cheap and nasty but pretends not to be. Both Tesco and Sainsbury's have ideas above their station.
Waitrose/M&S: try-hards
Asda is cheap and nasty, but knows it.
Aldi and Lidl: hipsters.

Morrisons is my supermarket of choice. Also I have a Wholefoods Market opposite work: next-level artisanal bullshit.

No Morrisons anywhere near us. Waitrose seems fine. No Iceland and no Aldi or Lidl.

It really depends on where you live as to the contingent in any of these grocery stores.

Not posh. Our local tesco is quite posh, but is a little unusual.

where do you live WizardOfToss?

By my post it may sound like I live in the Outback but I live in London.

A lot of stuff from a lot of the supermarkets own brands are actually the same product - I work at Asda and I have had to laugh at some people saying the quality is better at Sainburys etc ... their Taste the Difference range is exactly the same product as Asda's "Extra Special" range - we actually had an issue before Christmas when iirc some of our Extra Special wines had to be recalled because they had been printed up with our labels, but the tops on the bottls all had Sainsburys TtD logos on because there had been a mixup on the production line.

So, go ahead, spend more for the sake of it but I'm quite happy to shop where I work and get the same things cheaper!