I don’t understand Waitrose.

[JensonsAcolyte]

I just went to the big Waitrose because they stock gochujang paste. I thought I may as well get a few bits, chicken, cereal, crisps, pasta etc. All the sort of stuff that isn’t dinners but filler food.

£90!

For four bags of shopping.

And it didn’t feel special or posh or magical or anything.

Why do people shop there? Is it actually a snobbery thing? We have a Sainsburys, Tesco and Lidl within a mile or so radius as well.

The only thing it had going for it for me was the aforementioned chilli paste that I couldn’t get in Tesco. But other than the Ingredients range, the other ranges they offer aren’t very wide.

Will anyone admit that they shop there out of snobbery/classism?

I've never been to waitrose but for gochujang and korean ingredients, hmart UK online is the way to go! I buy the 1kg tubs for just under 6 quid.

They've just closed my nearest Booths, it was a sad day

@SchrodingersImmigrant

Quick add up: £40 on meat/meat products I think? Albeit not sure what “Butchers Lean tasty” is!

We shop at Waitrose, usually after 5 o'clock when they put their reductions out, we get some great bargains.

@JensonsAcolyte

Anyway I’ve eaten half some of the Port Salut cheese now and I think I was probably hangry and grumpy and didn’t soak in the ambience enough or something.

Unless you buy dirt cheap chicken from ghastly battery farms, then you have to pay a reasonable price in all supermarkets. Having shopped at Waitrose for decades, I suspect you chose their most pricy sliced chicken.

Have you price checked with tesco and sains?

You must have bought one hell of a lot of crisps, pasta and cereal to spend £90! I spend that on a weekly shop from Waitrose, which usually includes an organic chicken which we get 3 meals out of.

I'm not a snob about supermarkets but I find Aldi very hit and miss. Some things they sell are fine buy others turn out to be disgusting and inedible. A lot of Asda's food seems to be cheap and artificial and aimed at a child's palate. Waitrose and M&S are more expensive but I'm rarely disappointed with what I buy there and therefore have far less food waste.

The expensive things on your list are the branded things: Itsu, Nutella, cereals. Okay, you say there were no own brand cereals, but there would definitely be a cheaper and almost definitely nicer non-brand chocolate spread in there.

The thing about Waitrose and M&S I'd that their own brands are so nice and high welfare/healthy that you don't need to buy brands. Meat and cheese aren't expensive there, fruit and veg is, but much nicer than other supermarkets. The only things I agree with pp aren't nice in Waitrose are their boxed cakes and sliced bread. Tesco cakes are much nicer.

[quote Doomsdayiscoming]@SchrodingersImmigrant

Quick add up: £40 on meat/meat products I think? Albeit not sure what “Butchers Lean tasty” is![/quote]
Dog food

this Thread is hilarious

I can't go into booths (live locally)
Go in for milk, come out with a giant bill it's too tempting
Morrison's for me, weekly shop yesterday was £39

I don’t get this thread, why would anyone shop at Waitrose when you yourself are shopping at Waitrose. And buying a load of shite when in there.😂

ANIMAL WELFARE STANDARDS ARE HIGHER

[quote Doomsdayiscoming]@SchrodingersImmigrant

Quick add up: £40 on meat/meat products I think? Albeit not sure what “Butchers Lean tasty” is![/quote]
I think that's dog food🤔

But either way. 40 gor higher welfare meat doesn't usually get too much.

I walked into a Waitrose on my lunch break once and walked straight back out again I'm all for paying more for healthy food I shop in sainsburys sometimes M&S but Waitrose didn't interest me at all

Ah x posted😂

And I don't eat meat

@Bluntness100

I don’t get this thread, why would anyone shop at Waitrose when you yourself are shopping at Waitrose. And buying a load of shite when in there.😂

I know! I think I was trying to blame Waitrose for my profligacy.

I did my weekly shop today actually. 4 big bags for life from Aldi (including quite a lot of meat) £87.21. Half a large bag for life of stuff from Booths (no meat) over £30. And I find Booths cheaper than Waitrose.

[quote 21Flora]@ssd it is employee owned so staff are treated well and usually get quite large bonuses[/quote]
Do know this for certain?

A segmented supermarket sector gives consumer choice. Undercover Economist and others cover how essentials ranges are similarly priced across the board. It is what shoppers consider essentials that differs.

ebidgood.blogspot.com/2015/01/book-undercover-economist-by-tim-harford.html?m=1

Yep, glad you can see the funny side, OP.

£4.50 for Nutella? That's just not a Waitrose person type of food, so they can massively overcharge for it. You've been had

@Yorkterrier yes 100% agree animal welfare is my prime reason for shopping there, and I don't eat meat either. The conditions for the animals for dairy and eggs are absolutely horrific, so I trust Duchy Organic for this. Its honestly not much more expensive either. And not full of hormones etc, so I just think its healthier

[quote 21Flora]@ssd it is employee owned so staff are treated well and usually get quite large bonuses[/quote]
I had a temporary Christmas job at John Lewis as a teen, fuckers deducted my expensive uniform from my Saturday job wages.

Looking at your receipt, you have a heck of a lot of crap stuff on there.
Branded sugary cereals, crisps, Nutella, etc, and Tilda rice is around 3 x the cost of Waitrose own brand. I never buy it.

It's not Waitrose who are at fault.

I can spend the same amount on a week's food which includes their own brand porridge oats for just over a quid for a kilo.

I use it for quality and also because I prefer their meat and fish ( 6 sea bass fillets for a tenner) and my alternative big supermarket is miles away so fuel would add to the cost.

They sell the best sushi AND apricot tarts. I’m hungry.