My first shopping expedition at our newly opened Waitrose....

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Norm

Guest
That sounds like a Modern Myth to me!
Nope, I found it a few weeks ago looking for a new washing machine, although I only found it on the lines which JL stocked. Not only does it avoid the price-match, it also means that the only machines that the stocked which were tested by Which? were their own brand lines.

We ended up going to Currys.
 

marinyork

Resting in suspended Animation
Location
Logopolis
I remember when I was a kid in Sheffield there was a chain supermarket called Presto. Anyone else remember it?
I don't know if it was a national chain or not, I was too young to know that kinda stuff.

It was national. They became Safeways on the whole IIRC.
 

srw

It's a bit more complicated than that...
Ahhhh.............
Presto
Liptons
Fine Fare
Safeway

There must have been others that have gone by...

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.
 

The Jogger

Legendary Member
Location
Spain
Mrs Jogger says she shops their for the quality and it isn't that much more expensive. I have chosen to believe her, sort of...........
 

threebikesmcginty

Corn Fed Hick...
Location
...on the slake
Ahhhh.............
Presto
Liptons
Fine Fare
Safeway

There must have been others that have gone by...

There was Mainstop which became International, or the other way around.
 

Fab Foodie

hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
Location
Kirton, Devon.
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... :ohmy: :sad: 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.
 

Maz

Guru
Jacksons...they were on every other street in Hull. Don't know about other towns.
 
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