AIBU to think Waitrose is all fur coat and no knickers?

[ANiceLuxury]

Im normally an Asda, M&S and Iceland shopper. I’m fed up of going to 3 different supermarkets a week for groceries (I like different things in each of the above stores) so over the last 2 weeks I ve tried Waitrose online delivery.

Both times the food has not been as good as M&S and Asda. I ve had black potatoes, eggs that have a black tinge to them when cooked and bland strawberries.

Some of the range I bought was duchy (sp) and it’s no different to Asda.

I don’t understand why Waitrose has this upmarket reputation.

I’m starting to think it’s all fur coat and no knickers..

When Ocado swap to M&S and don't stock Waitrose products will you stick with them @Nat6999?

No I won't we have M & S simply food at the retail park 5 minutes from where I live & I have only been in once, the food is too expensive.

has anybody placed an order with ocado ready for the switch over next week ? Interested is there enough variety and price diffrence compared to waitrose stock ?

Does really good yellow stickers discounts and regular money off vouchers. But these just ring the prices down to normal levels.

It's my nearest supermarket and I generally very things from the essentials range. Better quality than Sainsbury's and the fruit and veg are fresh (whereas in my nearest Sainsbury's the fruit looks as thought it had been locked around the floor and the veg is always limp).
Ours has friendly staff and us well-laid out with a logic to location of items.
I recently shopped in Morrisons. Staff were mostly invisible, although those I did encounter were polite. It was less expensive but fresh food perished quite quickly. Some good veggie/vegan items but not all the standard things I would expect, and they layout of the store made no sense so I wasted time wandering.

OP, it's only no kecks in the heatwave, my grandson was amazed that I'd been a commando when I referred to my commando gardening dress.

I adore Waitrose and when visiting relatives in Preston we go to the store in Walton on the way home. Shop in Sainsbury and M & S, think the steak in Aldi is good but the rest of the meat is a disappointment, tried ASDA meat but not keen.

Shopping is subjective, what's good for one is not necessarily good for all. My children have fled the nest so I only shop for two these days and can justify a treat now and then.

Waitrose have lemon and mint San Pellegrino, nowhere else seems to have that flavour, they also have Smoked Haddock Chowder, Covent Garden range that nowhere else has so it's worth the trip for me. Their reductions can be amazing too.

I switched to Waitrose at the start of lockdown as the aisles are wider and it’s always a lot quieter with far fewer feral children. The trolleys were all being cleaned in front of you. Mask compliance is also almost 100%

The shopping experience is just so much nicer than all the other supermarkets o I think I’m sticking with them

Waitrose is for the serious cook. Their range of trench food is excellent

M&S is for the microwave white kitchen type cook. Full of sugar and additives. Imported out of season fruit and veg heavily treated to preserve it

I find the self checkout experience in Waitrose to be the best and most relaxed.

Lemon and mint pellegrino is also available in booths - I love it

I've been shielding so only getting groceries online - mainly from Sainsbury's. More recently I've been able to get groceries from Waitrose too. My experience is that Waitrose has lots more choice, but the quality isn't anything like as good with online deliveries as it is in-store. Really disappointing. Sainsbury is pretty consistent by comparison.

Smoked Haddock Chowder, Covent Garden range

We like this too, and our Sainsbury nearly always has it!

I don't live particularly close to a Waitrose. It's about 20 minutes away and I have to drive past Tesco, Asda, M and S and Morrisons to get there. I tend to shop in Tescos but I do use the Waitrose to collect things I have ordered online from John Lewis. Whenever I do this, I have a look round the store and pick up nice bits that you don't get elsewhere - biscuits, wine, toiletries etc. Recently we went to housesit for my brother when he had to go away for work. He lives closer to Waitrose so went there to do a "big shop." It was the most awkward store I have ever shopped in. Really difficult to find anything. I didn't think they had much choice either. The fruit and veg was good but I wouldn't say it was a great deal better than I usually get from Tescos.

I live a 5 minute walk from a Waitrose, so it's very handy for last-minute loaves of bread, or a pint of milk. It's also good for when you have a sudden hankering for something, but aren't quite bothered enough to get in the car and drive somewhere.

My Waitrose is fine usually. It's not huge, but has what you want. One time though, I bought some pate, and when I got it home I discovered it was out of date...

Lemon and mint pellegrino is also available in booths - I love it

Loved Booths when we lived in the NW, sadly they've not made it to Norfolk, a market opportunity there?

Asda - narrow aisles, loud piped music, rush rush rush
Sainsburys - no music, wide aisles, more time - also waitrose

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It’s all about the lovely I store experience with Waitrose, nice displays, gorgeous food, lots of things laid out so you get ideas, fresh fish counters etc etc Online is just like anywhere really

And the joy of shopping without hearing a 20-year-old woman with three children shrieking, “K-den! Shardonnay! Xristal! Fackin’ pack i’ in and come over ‘ere or O’ll wallop yous!”

I don't have a Waitrose within a reasonable distance. I do very occasionally order on line, specifically for booze and cheeses that I can't get in Sainsburys. I've not been overwhelmed by the rest, and the in store bakery is rubbish. M&S is better IMO, although I am too tight to do a full weekly shop there. Nip in every couple of weeks for nice deli stuff instead.

Waitrose has the worst children - ours is full of overly entitled Junos and Arlos getting in the way

How odd, I rarely see children in my local Waitrose and when I do, they're always behaving themselves. My local Tesco, however, is often awash with the little fickers and at least 50% of them are running around, apparently unsupervised, or bawling their heads off.

I agree that Waitrose isn't all that good for fruit and veg, but their meat is far better than Tesco imo. I find so much of Tesco's meat pallid, watery and tasteless. We stock up and fill the freezer when they have offers in Waitrose like 3 packs of steak for £10, 2 packs of "gourmet" sausages for £5 and their fab Hereford beef burgers with cracked black pepper all round the edge (£3 for 4). The rest of the time, I get my meat from the butchers or the farm shop. I often get veg from the farm shop, too.

If we had a Sainsburys local to us, I probably wouldn't bother going to two different shops, but the nearest one is a 20 mile round trip, and that seems a bit daft when there are 2 supermarkets, a butcher and a farm shop all within 2 miles.

What is the point of these threads? Do you want us to applaud because you’re a wise salt-of-the-earth type who tells it like it is, unlike the rest of us fools throwing our money about?

I go to Waitrose because I can see it from front door. I don’t go to Asda because it smells like BO and despair. Not much more to it than that.

Waitrose have lemon and mint San Pellegrino

Aldi do a copy of this and it tastes exactly the same. No discernible difference.

All San Pellegrino drinks are shit now they have sweetener in them!