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

Ooh LadyBridgerton - the perfume department!!

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?

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!

Oh Robin you are super posh

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

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!

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? 😄

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 think we sensed you were eye-rolling kittylester
😄

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 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!

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 ?

Why was BlueBelle s post removed? I didn't see it.

45 years ago my DM, who knew who was who 😀 bumped into her plumber in Harrods. She was amused but I think shocked at the realisation that he was far better off than her!

John Lewis was where we bought our School uniforms and where I had a Saturday job. Not in the least posh.

I buy organic veg and free-range eggs for the health of the planet and because they taste better. Wine from Lidl...but if you know anyone with a vineyard...

And wide awake at 2.30

Oh lordy I have chimneys and bedroom fireplaces and I shop at Waitrose. Old and posh.

Oh Georgesgran I have chimneys and bedroom fireplaces so I must be very very old (well I am I suppose)

Anyone who knew Nottingham in the day, and I think I can include kitty in this would have loved Jessops, now that was posh and Griffin and Spaldings also “tres posh” which sadly became Debenhams and went so downmarket.
Jessops is now JL ,still a lovely shop but you need plenty of money to shop there.
I use Sainsbury’s for delivery weekly and shop at Waitrose about twice a year when I am taken but would find it expensive for everyday shopping.
My eggs come with my weekly shop.

My gd says I’m posh… because I use the more expensive supermarket in Portugal, it’s only because I love their dark green bags! I’m actually far from posh 🤣

HelterSkelter1 I totally get your sadness. I was a keen sewer/sewist in those days and spent many hours perched on the stools choosing my patterns and selecting my fabrics. I can smell it now.
When we got the letter to say that the branch was closing I couldn’t face going again as I didn’t want to say goodbye 😢
Don’t get me started on the bus station…

No Waitrose near me and sadly no farm shop either, but my DGS1 says I must be very old because my house has a chimney! I love a trawl around JL in Newcastle though and the M&S there has a brilliant foodhall.

Read somewhere that the Co-op sells the best beef - Aberdeen Angus 😂

NotAGran55. I nearly cried when it closed. I was 26 when I first shopped there. Newly married. We bought baby things there, curtains, china. We had my parents old utility settee covered with a lovely cotton linen material from their fabric department.

An employee came to our little 2 bedroomed victorian house and cut out the material with enormous shears Windsor was a lovely town for shopping...not so now sadly.

My favourite shop is John Lewis and can happily browse around for hours. I usually shop in Waitrose and M & S food hall. I do pop into Morrisons and the co op occasionally. I buy all my meat from two local Farm shops. I also have an occasional Ocado delivery! Am I posh I don’t know 🤷‍♀️

I don't like the word either, but can't think of another that describes so exactly what is meant. I have been described as posh for shopping at Wrose. Silly and I want to reply in a Sybil Falty voice saying. "Oooh I know" but I am no good at voices.

Jones Brothers in Holloway Road, North London was the closest I ever got to John Lewis (it was a partner company to JL.) That was in 1968 when I went with my mum to get my school uniform!