aibu to think that Waitrose if posher than M&S food?

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Please settle our argument.....I think that Waitrose food is posher than M&S food, DH think M&S is the poshest? Who is right?

Was gonna say the same, Love. I lived near the Marylebone Waitrose. The posher the area, the fancier the branch. My local Tesco / Sainsbury's were Metro / Local versions.
I'd say Waitrose was posher than M&S. I remember a colleague once saying that Tesco was posher than Sainsbury's. I said, no. Not in London (or anywhere!). She insisted it to be the case in Scotland (she was from Glasgow) & that her local Tesco Extra was considered the height of sophistication!

If you want proper posh it has to be Fortnums but the only things I ever get there are jams, chutneys and gin!

M&S I don't class as a supermarket. Its great for nipping in for a lovely Saturday evening stay-at-home lazy dinner and I get a lot of my meat in there but I'd struggle to do a proper shop.

I've tried Booths when I was up North. Bit meh about it - on par with Waitrose but nothing 'wow' about it.

I'm in the main a sainsburys shopper and I'm very proud of my £266 Nectar card value at the moment!

Sainsbury's has never thrilled my grocery shopping soul. There's not one single product that I love that I can only find in Sainsbury's.

Living near to a Waitrose*

supermarket can boost a home's value by up to £36,000, new research reveals.
In what is being called the 'Waitrosee_

Effect', research from Lloyds Bank suggests house prices near a Waitrose

typically cost more than in the wider area. And there's more, Waitrose dominates in eight out of 10 regions across England and Wales with the largest price premiums.
For example, the average price for properties within easy reach of a Waitrosee_

is typically £36,480 higher than the wider town average (£429,118 compared to £392,939).

Properties in areas with a Waitrosee_

, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's, or even discount chain Iceland are most likely to command a higher house price premium. Generally speaking, homes close to a national supermarket can ring up a price premium of £22,000.


LLOYDS BANK
On the lower end of the scale, properties near a Lidl can boost a home's value by £6,416. The value of houses close to an Aldi, Lidl, Morrisons or Asda has grown by an average £21,400 or 11 per cent since 2014.
'With homes in areas close to major supermarkets commanding a premium of £22,000, the convenience of doing weekly shopping within easy reach may well be a pull for many homebuyers looking for good access to local amenities,' said Andy Mason, mortgages director at Lloyds Bank. 'The "Waitrose Effect" is clear; having a premium brand on your doorstep means buyers typically need to pay top prices. But the research also shows that areas with "budget" stores have, on average, seen the most rapid house price growth in recent years.
'There has been some suggestion that the likes of Lidl and Aldi are increasingly locating in more affluent areas where prices are already relatively high. Indeed, in 2014 house prices in areas with a Lidl were, on average, £4,700 lower than in neighbouring areas; today they are £6,400 higher.'

This is from house beautiful may this year but lots of articles from other publications have similar figures

God. That explains the ridiculous house prices here then! Less than a mile from my house to a Lidl and a Waitrose!

Netto

Is Netto Kwicksave?
And is Morrison's Safeway?
Used to shop in both, as a student.
M&S, when if I was flush (long before "this is M&S food...")

I find out local Waitrose a bit grubby and too small. It's hard to get around the shop at busy times, although I tend to go here for milk/ bread etc rather than m&s mostly based on cost. Our m&s do totally delicious ready meals. Prepared salads etc, so I treat us to those if we aren't going out but don't want to properly cook. (Sainsburys or ocado for weekly delivered shopping)

M&S I don't class as a supermarket. Its great for nipping in for a lovely Saturday evening stay-at-home lazy dinner and I get a lot of my meat in there but I'd struggle to do a proper shop
Yes!
M&S isn't a supermarket. It's the place you nip into when you're nearby and want a quick but nice tea.
I couldn't inagine attempting a full shop there.

M&S for your treats is definately "posher" the only thing I get from there on a regular basis is strawberries, pizza and frozen smoothie mix.

I find waitrose just an over priced supermarket tbh full of sour faced middle aged women and performance parents. My ex used to insist that we shopped there.

They've done up my local aldi which used to be a grubby dive full of tinned food and pasta, it's really posh now and is like m&s without the price tag.

Waitrose
M&S
Sainsbury's
Tesco
Asda/morrisons on par
Aldi/Lidl on par

That's how I would rank it

juicy not sure about netto/quiksave but yes Safeway sold a lot of their stores to Morrisons, some to Waitrose. They're never been the same company though. It used to be that Morrisons had a holding in the north of the country and there were few Safeway. Safeway had their majority of their stores in the south. safeway was An American company. I miss it!

Are people confusing "posh" with "expensive"?

I find Sainsbury's expensive compared with Tesco or Asda, and those three supermarkets I've found to be much of a muchness when it comes to quality - and of course they all stock the same branded goods anyway. They also change their ranges depending on teh demographics of the area they're located in. Not much experience with Morrisons tbh.

Waitrose own brand is good - my kids love their "essentials" frozen margherita pizzas which are about £1.30 and taste really good. Also love Waitrose indian ready meal range, and they have many more ingredients for cooking than they do in Marks. If you see a celeb chef recommending freeze dried raspberry powder or some new Japanese condiment saying that all the supermarkets have it, Waitrose definitely will.

GrilledAubergines - if you're not veggie then the Fortnums Scotch egg is the food of the gods - it's not sausagemeat round the egg, its Haggis it's so droolworthy. I always order them at Christmas with my Game Pie.

laurie I keep seeing that advertised on their Facebook feed. They look yum! And it was Fortnums who invented them I think?