Not to buy stuff online from companies that think the North doesn't exist?

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I'm looking at you Uniqlo - loads of branches in London and Home Counties and nothing at all in the rest of the country. Is our money not good enough?
Today I have had an e-mail from Rituals inviting me to attend a special evening. Very nice but I'm in Leeds and my closest branch is over 100 miles away in Leicester whereas there are 11 branches in London. I'm not likely to buy smelly stuff online without being able to sniff it beforehand so what's the point?

@Fabellini another highlander here! (Late to the thread ) I would be up for an eastgate meetup! (Although coffee blend near to the cancer research shop do a good coffee and a mean bagel!)

Spare a thought for those of us who live overseas and have none of these shops. We do have a shop that sells Tesco's things and another that sells Waitrose things but normally rejected stuff. So we get chocolate advent calendars in January etc which reminds me they might have Easter eggs this week

There has been rumours for a while that Booths in Lytham is closing down. They built one a few miles away in St Annes a few years ago. Funnily the Lytham one always seems busier than the St Annes one even tho SA store is right next to a large new housing estate with no other shops close by for competition

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Thirsk, Helmsley, Northallerton - it's all the same in my special world of geographical fuckwittedness.

. I'm surprised there isn't a Booths in Northallerton yet but I guess now isn't a good time for expansion.

I'm not, unless Lewis&Cooper has gone downhill since I lived over that way.

@MorningsEleven that cake sounds divine! I used to love the shortbread bats covered in chocolate with smarties for eyes that they used to do at Halloween.

The only Booths I've been to was near Settle I think? I was visiting a Southerner-now Northern friend who explained that it is Northern Waitrose and said that Waitrose stops at Leeds. Leeds is As North As Waitrose Gets.

Leeds is As North As Waitrose Gets.

They've spread up a bit, even a few in Scotland now - I posted a link to their map up thread.

I must have imagined the ones in Harrogate, Ponteland and Hexham then.

Her words not mine. I looked it up as I was surprised at that and have found branches up country. Should have added that as a disclaimer.

I have just been to a Waitrose at Gretna services, and there is also a big one in Edinburgh.

there is also a big one in Edinburgh

There's 2 in Edinburgh - Morningside and Stockbridge - and Waitrose is also in Glasgow. Don't think they've hit the Central Belt.

There is Waitrose in Stirling it opened 2/3 years ago I go for theessentials liquid soap its a pound and i feel right posh buying it 😃

Is there? I've not been to Stirling in years
Used to pop there occasionally when I worked in Grangemouth for a little skive.

Yes its on Burghmuir road where the miners welfare used to be there is a TKmax too