Waitrose card.

[summerdays]

Don't forget you can use a John Lewis Card (separate card) to get a coffee and a cake once a month...

I meet a friend once a month there, and last time I then spent £3 in John Lewis, but it does make me feel guilty.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Imagine plebs in Waitrose
One will be heading back to Fortnum & Mason..
'Arrods Food Hall at a push,
What next eh?
'101, how can we help?
I say, old chap there are poor people are shopping here in Waitrose, Constable'

 

[postman]

But the Waitrose in Cambridge is excellent, with great staff and a rather good wine section...

i love a good wine,but i never knew they had a section in Waitrose for it.I'll go down today and complain about the type of people who use the free coffee offer

 

[asterix]

Imagine plebs in Waitrose
One will be heading back to Fortnum & Mason..
'Arrods Food Hall at a push,
What next eh?
'101, how can we help?
I say, old chap there are poor people are shopping here in Waitrose, Constable'

I'm a better class of reject, I went to Harrods. Security wanted to know what I was doing in their shop.

But the Waitrose in Cambridge is excellent, with great staff and a rather good wine whine section...

i love a good wine, whine, but i never knew they had a section in Waitrose for it.I'll go down today and complain about the type of people who use the free coffee offer

Spellcheckers! But I fixed it for you!

 

[Hitchington]

I'm scum, but I'll happily raise my standards to get a free cuppa. I suppose this is what Gideon and co mean as "aspiration?"

 

[SS Retro]

By shopping in Booths leaving Waitrose for the hoi polloi?

I was in Booths yesterday with my daughter who was bit muddy from the park a tweed clad gentleman said to me sonny I think you will will be happier in Waitrose with a street urchin like that!

 

[Saluki]

Its the nearest supermarket to us so we use it and the card a couple of times a week for 'bread & milk' shops. We get a free paper every so often too. We do our big shop somewhere cheaper. We do have coffee and a bun there every so often. I might well be 'the wrong sort' as I tend to turn up in jeans and trainers rather than a twinset and pearls.

Our Waitrose seems to have a fairly eclectic mix of customers though, being the only 'proper' supermarket in town and the fact that its cheaper than the co-op too.

 

[PK99]

But the Waitrose in Cambridge is excellent, with great staff and a rather good wine section...
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Waitrose wine buyers have more credibility in the wine trade than any other supermarket.
Others, of course, have some good wines on their shelves, but Waitrose's wine section is by far the best* - with no overpriced then discounted bogofs, their headline price is always competitive and the offers real, their regular 25% off all wines deals are outstanding value esp for premium wines.

* of the Nationals that is, Booths are a good match for them, but they do not come this far south, i will be in their Windmere branch tomorrow!

 

[asterix]

The French version of Waitrose has eluded me so far.

You get the usual sort, Super U, Carrefour, Intermarche, Leclerc, Casino and you have Aldi, Lidl and Netto. The same kind of people shop in all of them (except maybe Netto which is pretty dire).

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Isn't the Labour Party furious about people getting a free cuppa? Something about poor, downtrodden businesses like Starbucks losing out?

 

[Cheddar George]

I used to use the Waitrose cafe a couple of times a month until they bought in the free coffee card. You can't get near the place now, full of OAP's, I'm sure some of them are arriving by minibus.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

[QUOTE 3009121, member: 259"]Waitrose Essentials brown sauce is an abomination in the eyes of God.[/QUOTE]
arhhh noooorrr don't start that one again please!

 

[PK99]

The French version of Waitrose has eluded me so far.

You get the usual sort, Super U, Carrefour, Intermarche, Leclerc, Casino and you have Aldi, Lidl and Netto. The same kind of people shop in all of them (except maybe Netto which is pretty dire).

Because the bog standard French supermarket is far closer to Waitrose than Tesco. The range an quality in Super U, Carrefour etc, I always find remarkable.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Yes, but I see they have reached Knutsford, which is dangerously close to the midlands.

It is worse than that - they have reached Northwich! At least Knutsford is slightly up market, Northwich is just a dump! (and currently lacking a lot of tarmac...)

And yes the coffee shop was packed full of OAP's last time I went in, and the coffee machine did not have a queue...

 

[Bobby Mhor]

[QUOTE 3008976, member: 45"]Jeremy Vine [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE 3008976, member: 45"]Funnily enough, that's exactly the tack that was taken on the Jeremy Vine show a few weeks ago.[/QUOTE]
Not plagiarised as I have not a clue who Mr Vine is, workmate has now updated me