I remember Keymarket in the centre of Abingdon. That's going back a few years...
So, Fab Foodie. You live within walking and cycling distance of a Waitrose, but choose to drive* six miles out to Sainsbury's instead. Isn't that a little odd?
*Before we had a car, my mother used to cycle to the Oxford City Centre Sainsbury's because it was better quality than the Abingdon Keymarket. This was a few years before Tesco's turned up, and when Waitrose was still a rail depot for the MG factory. All of which dates me quite a lot.
Keymarket, MG et al, was before my time, been here about 10 years.
I agree, it irks that we drive out to Sainsburys, but it's a once a week shop for a 5 person household, and that's an overloaded trolley-full. What's even worst is that we drop my daughter off to her job in Waitrose en-route...

Yes, there is a fuel/cost-saving argument, but I think it's weighted in favour of driving to Sainsburys (Heyford Hill, not really far at all0....
I'll discuss with the boss.
But I'll also cycle to Waitrose on occasions for odds and sods and generally cycle into town for ease of parking more than anything else.
We're not as environmentally sound as we
could should be.