To think Waitrose is an obscene rip-off

[SomeGuy]

I know they have lovely food, and you have to pay more for better-quality meat, etc., but surely there is no excuse for this:

Lindemans Framboise 375ml (raspberry beer)
Asda price: £1.64
Waitrose price: £2.19

Chimay bleu (trappist beer)
Asda price: £1.74
Waitrose price: £2.39

These are just bottles on a shelf.

Similarly canned food:

Heinz Spaghetti bolognese 400g
Asda 70p
Waitrose 98p

Toilet paper:

Andrex toilet quilts 9
Asda £4.76
Waitrose £5.35

and I could go on.

Don't care if ripoff. I have zero patience for supermarkets and when I do need to go to them Waitrose is the only one that doesn't make we want to open fire with a machine gun.

Will pay more for peace and quite and the lighting appears to be different and doesn't give me a migraine within 30 seconds of entering the place.

I heart Waitrose, it's a civilised experience.

Sorry meant to say their Essentials range is comparable to cheaper supermarkets but the value is excellent

I'm very impressed with their essentials range.

I love Waitrose. I can't afford to buy essentials such as washing powder and toilet roll there but there fruit and veg is vastly better in terms of taste and quality than anything at Tescos/Asda and lasts longer. Also they reduce items daily and their reductions are significant, 25-50 per cent off (sometimes more) rather than £1.99 down to £1.68 like you get on the Tesco's bargain shelf.

And yes Waitrose does employ a greater number of good looking posh young men.

Re essentials DH and I had to ROFL @ the "essentials smoked salmon" the other day.

I love to shop somewhere that smoked salmon is an essential. It's ludicrously fab!

Yujm, have first ever Waitrose delivery booked tomorrow (just opened locally)- usually shop at independents but can't this wek.

Anywhere that sells geranium cupcakes is OK by me, and TBH the price differences on the things I buy were so miniscule that the free delivery did indeed cover it.

We must have a superior type of Asda near us then,because,I shop there and am definitely not a scrunchie wearing fishwife.A lot of my friends shop there too and they are all far posher than me.

I went in a Waitrose once,in Okehampton I think,but it didn't strike me as any better than anywhere ese.

The Asda man just came, I have to say he was a very nice young man in fact, he said 'Your delivery sir', and 'Would you like me to take your plastic bags away for recycling sir' and so on.

Re: essentials smoked salmon, Sainsburys sell Basics smoked salmon, albeit trimmings. And you should check the smoked salmon thread about the lice and diseases about whether it really should be essential....

Finally re the alcopopness of raspberry beer, this one: www.beermerchants.com/Index.aspx?Page=product-details&ProductID=37 is most definitely not alcopoppish. It's delicious, but rather pricey for every day consumption, probably as it's aged for 2 years in oak vats and brewed in Lambeek itself.

I just remembered - it wasn't smoked salmon (DH and I were fairly sure but couldn't quite remember so guessed) it was this.

Fillet steak is definitely an essential in our house... and lice free I hope

£27/kg though, the Sainsburys Taste The Difference variety is cheaper than that.

And Asda do it for £18/kg.....

Sainsburys, asda etc are all a drive for me though. I just wander up to waitrose and rofl at the luxurious items. And manage to feed us very well on an amount that surprised my friends who shopped elsewhere.

Each to their own.

Our local supermarket is a Waitrose and I like going there because there is always a chance you might hear this over the tannoy: "Will a Vegetable Partner come to the checkout area please?". I love that.

And I like the cake section. The DSs and I always stop to see what is there before going to the checkout

Also Tesco and Sainsbury's are just too BIG.

yes molly there is something to be said for less is more in the size department. not too much to take in all at once, more manageable.

wonder what the op will make of that

a vegetable partner? Do they ever tannoy for the fudge packer as well?

And there we have it.

That joke, someguy, is while you feel more at home in asda.

I'm not even sure where the nearest Asda is. They don't have them in these parts. We haven't even got a Tesco near us. It's all Sainsburys and Waitrose.

Anyway, on the topic of fudge packers, there's a good 50s educational film here: Billy's Dad is a fudge packer

Another in the same vein: vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=12335247

I've worked out why I find tesco better. I don't buy my meat/milk/fruit and veg/eggs/some other stuff at the supermarket anyway so am only getting basics. For basics waitrose is expensive.
If I had more money I wouldn't start shopping at waitrose though, I would drop the supermarket altogether

It seems half the MN population wear Boden and shop in Waitrose and the other half wear Cherokee and shop in ASDA

well Hoegarden Beer was the same price in Waitrose as it was in Lidl.

Firste er delivery today- fab.

Apart from the ppermint choc cupcakes which are divine rgew drier was no youngster but very professional and polite (my old Tesco one always had a mona about something), the wholelot came oacked in bags for life, they do more free fro foods and I am a convert.

I am also wearing Boden but it only cost me a tenner on Ebay LOL

I've just had a Waitrose delivery (its my 3rd) and they forgot two items. I rang customer services and I got through to someone straight away. They also give me £10 off. I think that was because I didn't order for a couple of weeks as I'd been to tescos as they had given me £12 off if I spent £80.

I once found a pickled beetle in a jar of Waitrose capers. I took capers and beetle back to Waitrose customer services in store and the manager apologised profusely. Then a couple of weeks later I received £25 in John Lewis vouchers through the post.

Love Waitrose!