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Waitrose have issued a warning of a profits dip, citing the free newspapers and coffee as the main problem.

 

Not quite on a par with Hoover's free flights a few years ago, but who'd have thought giving stuff away for free could hit the bottom line! Apparently, they now have a right bunch of chavs in the shop, filling up with coffee at the entrance door, sloshing it on the floor all through the shop, picking up a bottle of wine to qualify for a free newspaper and leaving again.

 

When what they thought would happen was yummy mummy would park the Evoque, grab a soothing latte as a reward for being a yummy and then spend millions on posh cheese and hand carved Heston Blumenthal organic butter and nettles statuettes wrapped in Duchy linen.

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Waitrose have issued a warning of a profits dip, citing the free newspapers and coffee as the main problem.

 

Not quite on a par with Hoover's free flights a few years ago, but who'd have thought giving stuff away for free could hit the bottom line! Apparently, they now have a right bunch of chavs in the shop, filling up with coffee at the entrance door, sloshing it on the floor all through the shop, picking up a bottle of wine to qualify for a free newspaper and leaving again.

 

When what they thought would happen was yummy mummy would park the Evoque, grab a soothing latte as a reward for being a yummy and then spend millions on posh cheese and hand carved Heston Blumenthal organic butter and nettles statuettes wrapped in Duchy linen.

 

Its works for me, I'm forever going in for "free" coffee and then drop £30 on booze/cakes/artisan breadsticks. There is a very high standard of clunge in my local one too. B)

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Aldi is the best supermarket.. there, I said it.

 

Their bread is pants, but everything else lasts longer and tastes better.

 

Asda is pants, Sainsbury's is absolutely rubbish, Tesco's is okay..

 

Marks and Spencers own stuff is pretty nice, if you're looking for a treat, but salad/veg goes off waaaay too quickly.

 

Waitrose is like a shittier version of M&S, but they do sell nice "ready meals" that you can just chuck in the oven.

 

But for value for money, freshness & taste, Aldi is the best! :D

Oh.. an morrisons.. I forgot morrisons.. they're salad counter is pretty cool. what with the water vapor shooter things and all, but it's pretty pants too.

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Aldi is the best supermarket.. there, I said it.

Their bread is pants, but everything else lasts longer and tastes better.

Asda is pants, Sainsbury's is absolutely rubbish, Tesco's is okay..

Marks and Spencers own stuff is pretty nice, if you're looking for a treat, but salad/veg goes off waaaay too quickly.

Waitrose is like a shittier version of M&S, but they do sell nice "ready meals" that you can just chuck in the oven.

But for value for money, freshness & taste, Aldi is the best! :D

Oh.. an morrisons.. I forgot morrisons.. they're salad counter is pretty cool. what with the water vapor shooter things and all, but it's pretty pants too.

Lidl > aldi

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Aldi is the best supermarket.. there, I said it.

 

Their bread is pants, but everything else lasts longer and tastes better.

 

Asda is pants, Sainsbury's is absolutely rubbish, Tesco's is okay..

 

Marks and Spencers own stuff is pretty nice, if you're looking for a treat, but salad/veg goes off waaaay too quickly.

 

Waitrose is like a shittier version of M&S, but they do sell nice "ready meals" that you can just chuck in the oven.

 

But for value for money, freshness & taste, Aldi is the best! :D

Oh.. an morrisons.. I forgot morrisons.. they're salad counter is pretty cool. what with the water vapor shooter things and all, but it's pretty pants too.

Ok **frightfully middle class post alert**

 

I won't go in the local ASDA (mostly due full of swap donkeys but also due to the fact they gave me funny looks when Mrs E sent me in their to pick up the manual breast pump she'd ordered in my name)

 

Tesco's makes me sad.

 

Morrisons is too northern for my tastes

 

Sainsbury's is ok.

 

M&S is good for Sarnies but nowt else.

 

Never been in Lidl's or Aldi.

 

Waitrose give me a free coffee and a paper plus a natty little scanner thing... and its simply the only place to get the organic moroccan hummus that Tarquin adores with his olives.

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Lidl and Aldi is where I get most of my food. Sainsburies and Tesco if the cheap shops don't have what I want. It makes me laugh in the On Topic threads, when people say "we're shopping at Aldi!"... We're not, Villa shop at the corner shop where everything goes out of date in a day.

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Lidl and Aldi is where I get most of my food. Sainsburies and Tesco if the cheap shops don't have what I want. It makes me laugh in the On Topic threads, when people say "we're shopping at Aldi!"... We're not, Villa shop at the corner shop where everything goes out of date in a day.

 

for vastly overpriced good too :lol:

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Lidl and Aldi is where I get most of my food. Sainsburies and Tesco if the cheap shops don't have what I want. It makes me laugh in the On Topic threads, when people say "we're shopping at Aldi!"... We're not, Villa shop at the corner shop where everything goes out of date in a day.

 

The good ones were from Aldi. The rest were like some unidentified meat we bought out the back of a van in a pub car park.

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Aldi is the best supermarket.. there, I said it.

 

Their bread is pants, but everything else lasts longer and tastes better.

 

Asda is pants, Sainsbury's is absolutely rubbish, Tesco's is okay..

 

Marks and Spencers own stuff is pretty nice, if you're looking for a treat, but salad/veg goes off waaaay too quickly.

 

Waitrose is like a shittier version of M&S, but they do sell nice "ready meals" that you can just chuck in the oven.

 

But for value for money, freshness & taste, Aldi is the best! :D

Oh.. an morrisons.. I forgot morrisons.. they're salad counter is pretty cool. what with the water vapor shooter things and all, but it's pretty pants too.

Ok **frightfully middle class post alert**

 

I won't go in the local ASDA (mostly due full of swap donkeys but also due to the fact they gave me funny looks when Mrs E sent me in their to pick up the manual breast pump she'd ordered in my name)

 

Tesco's makes me sad.

 

Morrisons is too northern for my tastes

 

Sainsbury's is ok.

 

M&S is good for Sarnies but nowt else.

 

Never been in Lidl's or Aldi.

 

Waitrose give me a free coffee and a paper plus a natty little scanner thing... and its simply the only place to get the organic moroccan hummus that Tarquin adores with his olives.

 

 

New Tesco's are good, I've been in the older stores, and they're pants.

 

I've been in new and old Sainsbury's (Redditch = old, Blackheath = new(ish) and it's overpriced and poor quality. Seriously, the worst supermarket in my opinion.

 

Aldi is good, it's much cheaper and the quality is still pretty high, imo.  Some of their meats are brilliant.  Fruit and Veg is a must, they last longer than anywhere else.

 

Morrisons - near Rubery is ok.  pants layout, some of the booze is well priced and their veg/salad is very decent, but everyday shopping is expensive.

 

Waitrose - good ready meals, some quite rare things are gettable there, but everything is over priced.  In some cases, literally double Aldi prices, for worse quality stuff.

 

Lidl - some good offers, but the quality of the food is no frills, it's basic but you wouldn't give other people that food they came to your house :lol:

 

Eames - what next, you're going to tell me you have a Range Rover for your horse boxes!? ;)

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Aldi is the best supermarket.. there, I said it.

 

Their bread is pants, but everything else lasts longer and tastes better.

 

Asda is pants, Sainsbury's is absolutely rubbish, Tesco's is okay..

 

Marks and Spencers own stuff is pretty nice, if you're looking for a treat, but salad/veg goes off waaaay too quickly.

 

Waitrose is like a shittier version of M&S, but they do sell nice "ready meals" that you can just chuck in the oven.

 

But for value for money, freshness & taste, Aldi is the best! :D

Oh.. an morrisons.. I forgot morrisons.. they're salad counter is pretty cool. what with the water vapor shooter things and all, but it's pretty pants too.

Ok **frightfully middle class post alert**

 

I won't go in the local ASDA (mostly due full of swap donkeys but also due to the fact they gave me funny looks when Mrs E sent me in their to pick up the manual breast pump she'd ordered in my name)

 

Tesco's makes me sad.

 

Morrisons is too northern for my tastes

 

Sainsbury's is ok.

 

M&S is good for Sarnies but nowt else.

 

Never been in Lidl's or Aldi.

 

Waitrose give me a free coffee and a paper plus a natty little scanner thing... and its simply the only place to get the organic moroccan hummus that Tarquin adores with his olives.

 

 

New Tesco's are good, I've been in the older stores, and they're pants.

 

I've been in new and old Sainsbury's (Redditch = old, Blackheath = new(ish) and it's overpriced and poor quality. Seriously, the worst supermarket in my opinion.

 

Aldi is good, it's much cheaper and the quality is still pretty high, imo.  Some of their meats are brilliant.  Fruit and Veg is a must, they last longer than anywhere else.

 

Morrisons - near Rubery is ok.  pants layout, some of the booze is well priced and their veg/salad is very decent, but everyday shopping is expensive.

 

Waitrose - good ready meals, some quite rare things are gettable there, but everything is over priced.  In some cases, literally double Aldi prices, for worse quality stuff.

 

Lidl - some good offers, but the quality of the food is no frills, it's basic but you wouldn't give other people that food they came to your house :lol:

 

Eames - what next, you're going to tell me you have a Range Rover for your horse boxes!? ;)

 

Not quite. Freelander - but looking at upgrading to a Disco. ;)

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