I am really posh - that's according to DGD3!!

Ah we’re all scrubbers here, we don’t even have a Waitrose or John Lewis ( or Lydl or whatever it is ) . We av got a swimming pool,though, does that count ?

I fell out big time with JL after they closed the store here which was a huge shock to our system. We were told, loftily, that we could always shop on line, or, if we wanted the “in store experience” we could always go to Leeds! Leeds!! Known hereabouts as “The Eternal City up the Road”! No thank you!

Sago

I’m screaming inside,,,,,,..I hate the word posh.
I would hate be described as posh.
I want to put posh in room 101.
Sorry.

Sago I completely agree.
I was just about to say this!

...I think we sensed you were eye-rolling kittylester
😄

Glad you spotted that notspaghetti

Those were the days, utbb. We rarely go to Nottingham nowadays. The car park in Leicester leads straight into John Lewis.

I buy my eggs from nearby farms when available or have organic eggs delivered with my organic milk from the milkman. I have an organic veg box delivered bi-weekly and organic citrus fruits direct from Spain via CrowdFarming. Meat from the local butcher, Top ups from the Co-op, Waitrose and Aldi. Does that make me posh? 😄

Kendal Milne was truly lovely to shop in many years ago (but to be honest i mainly "browsed) - with it's beautiful Portland stone "international modernist" style, smart "powder rooms" and liveried lift attendant. I seem to remember gorgeous rugs in the tea room.

It was just so glamorous!

The word posh doesn’t bother me as I would never in a million years be called it 🤣

Oh Robin you are super posh

NotSpaghetti

Kendal Milne was truly lovely to shop in many years ago (but to be honest i mainly "browsed) - with it's beautiful Portland stone "international modernist" style, smart "powder rooms" and liveried lift attendant. I seem to remember gorgeous rugs in the tea room.

It was just so glamorous!

Going into Kendal Milne used to be fabulous, even the smell as you went through the door! Loved the tunnel under Deansgate to get to the men's department too. I used to say that all our best crockery and cutlery was delivered to us for KM when we lived abroad, omitting that is was seconds in their Sale!

Yesterday I had a delivery of Guinea Fowl from the Wild Meat Company.

I don’t think this an any way makes me superior, I will also be going to the market later this morning for fish, eggs and vegetables, is this considered to be an upmarket or downmarket act?

This is such a funny thread, also does one perhaps have different clothing for Waitrose say compared to Asda?

Ooh LadyBridgerton - the perfume department!!

BlueBelle

I would say she’s got it sorted I ve never been in Waitrose or John Lewis and there’s no farms near here 🤣so I m definitely in the lower end of humans 🤣

🤣🤣🤣

I don’t pay for my eggs. My daughter gives me eggs from her own hens. What does that make me? A beggar? A scrounger?

I have been to Waitrose, a 12 mile drive, but since Aldi opened just over the road I shop there. Better for the environment!

I have been to JL but it is the only shop worth going to in my city, so I rarely bother.

I try to buy as little as possible. Better for the environment and less for my children to deal with when I die.

Posh doesn’t enter my vocabulary.

I utterly loathe the word “posh”, I was called “posh” at Secondary because being the GD of a classics master, good speech and proper grammar was the order of the day!

I too have been known to fraternise M&S food hall (or delivery via Ocado) and would love to shop at a farm shop but alas none near us.

Posh! Piffle!

Sago

Yesterday I had a delivery of Guinea Fowl from the Wild Meat Company.

I don’t think this an any way makes me superior, I will also be going to the market later this morning for fish, eggs and vegetables, is this considered to be an upmarket or downmarket act?

This is such a funny thread, also does one perhaps have different clothing for Waitrose say compared to Asda?

Goodness! You ARE “posh”

I have a JL 10 minutes up the road which has an in store Waitrose so not surprisingly I use both occasionally. I really life I go to Sainsburys and Lidl (if only they did more GF).
I suppose this makes me a tiny bit posh 😂

It's all about discernment,
Waitrose have stuff other supermarkets do not imo,
Arrowroot biscuits, black skinned tomatoes for example.
Excellent eggs and quality meat.
I don't think they are particularly expensive and as all food is pricey why not have the best?

Cossy

I utterly loathe the word “posh”, I was called “posh” at Secondary because being the GD of a classics master, good speech and proper grammar was the order of the day!

I too have been known to fraternise M&S food hall (or delivery via Ocado) and would love to shop at a farm shop but alas none near us.

Posh! Piffle!

Ah but you did have an extremely posh independent department store very near where you are now, in what used to be considered a well to do road 🙀😹

When we first came to live “oop north” we lived in a Manchester suburb for a year and I made a trip into town and into Kendal Milne for the first time.
I went to purchase a pair of stockings, this was mid 60’s when tights were possibly unknown.
When I had chosen them the snooty assistant asked if I really only wanted one pair as they usually sold them in dozens.
I did eventually come to love that shop for it’s uniqueness and character, it was ruined by The House of Frazer takeover.
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I felt that I had better add that I must confess to being a foodie to the extent I have my GD buy me cheese from The Cheese Hamlet in Didsbury, M/C. Anyone know it?

Boz

I felt that I had better add that I must confess to being a foodie to the extent I have my GD buy me cheese from The Cheese Hamlet in Didsbury, M/C. Anyone know it?

No but I know Didsbury, had an aunt who lived in Stockport who would take me to Didsbury which she said was posh. Actually it is quite posh.
She used to take me to Fletcher Moss Park, not sure if it is in Didsbury but was included in the trip.

Can anyone think of a suitable word to use instead of posh, I agree it is a bit derogatory so what is a good alternative?

I occasionally slip into Fortnum's for something special as a gift, on my way to or from my club, so I guess I might be considered posh. I shop regularly at JL and Waitrose; does some of my poshness rub off on them?

My mum called posh people 'well to do'. I don't like calling people posh but have told someone they were wearing a posh dress.