What is good to buy from Waitrose?

Millie22

I think HelterSkelter meant the OP not your mother!

This thread was started nearly 12 months ago.

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Thanks for the info HelterSkelter seems like it is the good stuff.

I think HelterSkelter meant the OP not your mother!

This thread was started nearly 12 months ago.

HelterSkelter1

I wonder what she bought and did she like her purchases. We should be told!!

As far as I know/remember from visits she bought a lot of salmon fillets and cheeses. They probably bought a lot of smoked ham, eggs, lamb chops and watercress. Possibly ice cream.Couldn’t tell you what else, she died in 2002 and we didn’t live in the uk. She didn’t like Sainsburys because it was too crowded and wild horses wouldn’t drag her into any of the discount stores. She used to go to Harrods for morning tea from time to time and she loved the sales there where she bought loads of English crockery.

The vouchers will scan whatever you buy, plenty of discounts to be had, good wine promotion at present, one irritation is they don't stock the larger pack sizes.
Mine has just had checkouts reduced and more self scan that’s OK for small shops but large shops, alcohol or restricted items that need authorizing it’s a pain.

I shop there every day as it is a 3 minute walk away and this morning I bought a Cranks wholemeal loaf. The ingredients look very wholesome. I expect other shops sell it.
Waitrose's own sliced wholemeal contains emulsifiers.

Cranks is very nice, but not so good for sandwiches. Great for a buttered slice with honey though.

Skye17

Cougar530

Yes, really! It was a staff member who told me when I couldn’t find the product - olive oil I think it was. This week I had £3 off a tin of shortbread and £3 off something else - can’t remember now, but I bought neither and scanned both vouchers, and got £6 off.

Thank you Cougar530, that is useful information.

Do you have to use the self service tills?
Anyone know if you can buy nonUProcessed bread in Waitrose?

I wonder what she bought and did she like her purchases. We should be told!!

As she got older, into her 80s , that was the only shop my Mum would use. She said she didn’t want to go on holidays or spend money at restaurants so she would buy the best she could get. I wish we had one here. They tried, briefly, to have one similar in the city but it wasn’t popular and didn’t pay. Meanwhile, back to Aldi ….

Grantanow

I usually avoid Duchy stuff (he's rich enough already).

The Duchy shortbread biscuits are delicious. Just like homemade.

MerylStreep

I think the OP might have spent her voucher by now.
*She posted in Dec 2022*

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It's like banging your head against the wall isn't it?

Still, it is interesting to see what Waitrose has to offer these days. My mother went there every week and did her little bit of shopping (always the same items) and had a coffee with some friends.

I go there for their Elsinore pickled herring and they also have a new chilled range of Kombucha drinks. Really love their own brand Greek style yogurt too, much better than Tesco.

Our local, medium sized Waitrose used to have about 6 manned tills, and two self service checkouts. This has recently changed, leaving only one manned till, and the rest are now self service. I wasn’t impressed!

I usually avoid Duchy stuff (he's rich enough already).

Whatever takes you fancy after having a wander round.

My grandson also loves their Chicken Kievs. The one with parmiagiano and truffle is our favourite when he's round.

The Duchy range is pretty good quality. I really like their blueberries.

www.waitrose.com/ecom/shop/browse/groceries/organic_shop/duchy

Rude Health cereals, especially Spelt flakes. They have NO sugar at all. Fudges biscuits are expensive but make a lovely treat.

twiglet77, some people really like that top of the milk cream. Dh and his brothers apparently used to fight over it - and that was gold top (Jersey) milk!
Whereas my own attitude is more on the lines of 🤮.

I think the OP might have spent her voucher by now.
She posted in Dec 2022

The Anyday kitchen equipment and also underwear are really good.
I particularly liked the full briefs, so comfortable ,soft an well fitting and am thrilled with my little kettle. I know in John Lewis they have much greater selection of Anyday things. (their own basic brand )

Not that I buy it very often at all, but I go to Waitrose (or M&S) for British, higher-welfare pork or gammon.

The voucher scheme is now far less generous and far less likely to work if you haven’t bought that item… they have clamped down considerably, the loyalty voucher scheme is so time consuming and clunky, and awful compared to other supermarkets.

I hate that the fresh bread is displayed uncovered, so it’s open to being coughed on, and prodded and squeezed by countless fingers, and by lunchtime it’s dry and horrid. Morrison’s bakery is much better. Also, the Duchy Organic milk isn’t homogenised so the whole milk (blue) has a glob of cream on top, which not everyone likes. Yeo Valley organic doesn’t have the creamy top.

Only their granulated sugar is British (Silver Spoon), the rest is imported. Waitrose own ice cream is nice though, Red Choice tomatoes are good, and I like their organic flour. All their potatoes sprout faster than those from other stores, I think they store them too cold. They used to stock Bart’s organic spices but now they’re only on Ocado, for M&S.

Waitrose really suffers from an unjustifiable snobbery and needs to pull their socks up!

Jazzhands

John Lewis will deliver to Waitrose if you see something online you like from there.

That’s useful info, though I expect the OP has spent her voucher, having started the thread in Dec 22

John Lewis will deliver to Waitrose if you see something online you like from there.

Cougar530

Yes, really! It was a staff member who told me when I couldn’t find the product - olive oil I think it was. This week I had £3 off a tin of shortbread and £3 off something else - can’t remember now, but I bought neither and scanned both vouchers, and got £6 off.

Thank you Cougar530, that is useful information.