Overheard in Waitrose!

DD2 posted a very funny article on FaceBook recently- with a 'poor' person asking all the posh people to go back to Waitrose now the 'crisis is over'- and stop the hour -long queues at Aldi and Liddle!

I have Waitrose across the street from where I live so I shop there all the time. I don't think they are more expensive than anywhere else if you get their specials and/or their own brand stuff.

I make a special trip to Lidl for certain items including the 1litre tub of Turkish yoghurt.

My best "shopping snobbery" story is this one which I am sure I've told about before but worth a repeat:

We were at a dinner party when supermarkets came up in conversation and one of the women said "I've never been to Lidl" in a haughty sort of way. Her teenage son said "But of course you have, you were there last week". To which she instantly replied "Well, I've never knowingly been to one ...". I laughed out loud. But she gets top marks for a quick come back.

We are getting a small M&S at a garage in the high street, which is being demolished and then rebuilt to accommodate the food store! It should cause no end of traffic chaos when the badly driven 4x4s try to 'just pop in'!

A small M & S is coming to Melton Mowbray and Oakham- you should here the moaning - everyone wants an Aldi - except me give me M & S and Waitrose anyday of the week.

We use ALDI AND Waitrose, find that combination works quite well, then regular forays into my lovely local Coop, local veg shop. Sometimes Sainsburys, dont have Morrison and never Tescos! Would starve first.

Very - I LOVE Booths! At least, I love the one in Keswick which I believe is the largest branch. It's expensive but a lovely place. We went on holiday nearby a couple of times and it's the only place where I have been able to go to shop guilt-free and not care about the prices, because I know it's only for a couple of weeks and DBH hasn't insisted on hunting around for somewhere a bit cheaper.

The only place I have ever seen beggars in Bury St.Edmunds is outside the pedestrian entrance to Waitrose. I would love to know if it works for them. I presume so.

The nearest Booths is at Knutsford, so I am stuck with Waitrose. How deprived am I?

DH just got back from Waitrose, gleefully announcing her was first at the reduced counter! Well it's nice to be first in something! Xx

Yes, as I see now I've googled it! I was wondering why it had never been mentioned before, as there are quite a few GNetters from that area.

It's exclusive to the North West, Ana. Founded 1847, so they see Waitrose as upstarts.

Never heard of Booths

I'm in a shopping desert, dontchaknow, with nary a Waitrose or a Booths - my DD2 has both within striking distance, so is never stuck for a free Guardian and a hot beverage. All my local Coop has to offer is the odd wilted bunch of flowers for a quid - I'm lucky if they have heads on by the time I walk home. I'm told that Booths shoppers tend to look down on the Waitrose riff raff.

Crafting, that comment about John Lewis could very well be applied to our local Tesco - any number of 'supervisors' and staff wearing suits wandering about, chatting to each other, but no one actually willing to respond to a till person's request for assistance or help!

I like Waitrose [for some things] and it's not pretentious at all, in that nobody is like a Stepford Wife [no onesies either] it's just full of ordinary types doing the shopping.A bit pricey for a full shop, but we use it for certain items. Also the bread is never good, as mentioned on another thread.I shall certainly listen out for funny comments though.

Three young shelf stackers were standing in a group chatting together in my Waitrose when one of the older staff came up to them and said where do you lot think you are ... John Lewis! (Only funny if you've ever been to John Lewis and seen all the managers standing round in their suits with clipboards in hand whilst customers try and get some service)

DD was decorating and asked if I had any newspaper she could use. So I popped to Waitrose on Sunday and got a free paper with my shopping! And my free coffee too of course!

Same in Altrincham, merlot. All the mums with their 4x4s picking up kids from prep school and straight into Aldi for wine, cheese, venison etc. I don't know about £4 school uniforms - they should start looking at the colours of local private schools' uniforms - they'd get plenty of customers.

I frequently 'pop in' to our Waitrose. I did just that this afternoon and found a few reduced items that I didn't know I wanted! I often run into people I know from U3A or NWR and have a chat - but not about our posh houses or Mediterranean villas: more likely a bit of local gossip. And you should see the queues after the monthly U3A meeting, as Waitrose shares the Civic Centre car park.

In our town there are more middle class parents of privately educated children in Aldi than Waitrose.

Gosh! Ours is not lime that.. all and sundry in the one here..once saw a girl in her onsie and teddy slippers..when I say girl she was too old for school!

I always call Waitrose The Stepford Wives supermarket. For those of you who have seen the film it's the scene where the wives have been turned into Androids. They are all in the supermarket, full makeup, beautifully dressed and smiling sweetly. On meeting another android, the searing smile is turned on and they comment on the others purchases.
That's what our Waitrose is like. You just couldn't 'pop in there'

She's probably right - someoof the portions in packaged food are far too big for one these days. I do an inline shop at Waitrose whenever they email me a voucher for £10 off my shopping. It works out cheaper than Tesco.

My nephew was in Waitrose yesterday and says all he could hear was customers cracking 'pretentious' jokes in the hope they'd be overheard

I think they are lovely comments - don't we love laughing at pretentiousness. My opposite of this occurred on Holiday in Tenerife in February this year. We were waiting in a queue for the bus when two well heeled couples joined us in the queue and began a conversation between them about their lovely villas in which they usually spent all winter, their fabulous homes in England etc etc etc. They both had multiple bags from the local supermarket but began a conversation about how much they loooovved Aldi. Eventually one of the ladies, large designer handbag, Ray Bans, Tod loafers began to wax lyrical about Aldi Chicken Kiev- 'you know the frozen one. We only have one and share it - its plenty' she said. Perhaps if I didn't have large food bills through feeding us enough fresh food to keep more than a sparrow alive we would have a Villa in the sun as well. LOL .

when Parking doesn't really bother me as I usually walk into Wilmslow and do main shop at Lidl.

I think Waitrose is a bit nearer to me than the ASDA I go to most often, but I use Asda most of all. I am not interested in appearing to be posh.