Late to the party here but I've 'happened across our local one here in Manchester and well, I love it!
Its now my go-to Supermarket. Any one else? 🙂
Is it Waitrose for dwellers in the northern provinces?
For the Midlands I think as never seen one in the North.
Used the ones in Keswick and Windermere, expensive, but the prepared food is very nice (especially the lasagne) 😛
Usually have a great selection of beers, I particularly like the one in Keswick.
Of course there are (Unless Cumbria and Yorkshire don't count as proper north).
Keswick, Kirkby Lonsdale, Settle, Ilkley. Anywhere with moneyed visitors or locals.
Best. Cheese Shop. Ever.
In a bank balance threatening manner. Its quite easy to get carried away 😳
Of course there are (Unless Cumbria and Yorkshire don't count as proper north).
North Midlands maybe.
And the beer selection is very impressive.
I think it's very much a North West thing. My nearest is in Ilkley but I have seen them in Preston and Windermere too
Booths is amazeballs (apart from the Lancaster one). Surprisingly, the best one I've been to was in Garstang.
Bit pricy for everyday shopping though (and of course I use local independents don't you know 🙂 ).
Is it Waitrose for dwellers in the northern provinces?
Pah - Waitrose is like Iceland compared to Booths.
Yup they're in the NW and parts of Yorkshire supposed to be pretty good.
Best. Cheese Shop. Ever.
Independent ones are the best, we have a great little one in town.
Never been in one (as they're Northern) but I understand their beer range is epic.
Booths is amazeballs (apart from the Lancaster one). Surprisingly, the best one I've been to was in Garstang.
Lancaster's getting a new one: http://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/business/builders-will-go-to-ground-to-build-new-state-of-the-art-store-1-6591633
Never been in one (as they're Northern) but I understand their beer range is epic.
There's none in the North.
New one being built in Barrowford near me right opposite a new build Morrisons M-Local that is half built too.
Independent ones are the best, we have a great little one in town.
I think you'd be surprised Drac. You really would think you were at a high end independent, the selection is that good! Probably as it is an independent. 😉
Possibly, next time I'm in the Midlands I'll take a look.
For the Midlands I think as never seen one in the North.
What do you mean by North? Are you a Viking?
Booths are frikkin ace BTW! Awesome booze aisle.
[quote=Drac said]Never been in one (as they're Northern) but I understand their beer range is epic.
There's none in the North.
🙄
Keswick and Penrith might be South of where you live but they're Northern ™
Like for like it compares well to Tescos on stuff I buy tbh.
Best booze aisle I've ever seen. My pre Xmas visit resulted in many malts!
Keswick and Penrith might be South of where you live but they're Northern ™
Why have you trade marked Northern?
What do you mean by North? Are you a Viking?
There's no vikings any more.
Like for like it compares well to Tescos on stuff I buy tbh.
Bin bags and bleach?
Bin bags and bleach?
Dairy Lea and Stella.
My OH works there,northern based (Preston),family owned business. Very highly rated stores. They are in a buying group with Waitrose,so get great offers. With a Booths loyalty card you can get a free coffee or tea in their restaurants every day... (err like Waitrose). They made their name years ago in tea and coffee and it's still fantastic now.
Best supermarket by a country mile - great butchers, deli and beer selection. Love going to the Ilkley one when I'm back in God's Own Country - wish they would expand down to the South West where I now live.
Booths, the supermarket for grammar pedants because they have a 10 items or fewer aisle.
Like for like it compares well to Tescos on stuff I buy tbh.
Hmmm.... it seems significantly more for everyday items to me, but the trouble with Booths is that there's so much deliciousness on offer that you don't just buy everyday items.
I've not been in a Booths for knocking on 10 years but a couple of visits to the North of Englind they stick out in my mind (Kirkby Lonsdale & Settle ones).
Yeah, I like 'em. Could do with one up here in the North East ((Scotland I mean ).
Is it Waitrose for dwellers in the northern provinces?
Ahem...
Pah - Waitrose is like Iceland compared to Booths.
+1
Clitheroe's my nearest. It's ace, but a weekly shop there will leave you with a sore bottom (unless you're a visiting Southerner not used to buying two pints in a pub and getting change from a fiver). Going every couple of months as a treat is far more sensible.
There's no vikings any more.
Not in the Midlands ™
90% of my food shopping is from local independents. However I love Booths.
They tend to buy stuff from local suppliers/farmers e.g. milk. So you do pay a little more but the quality is amazing.
There is talk of one coming to Marple where I live, as long as it doesn't take custom away from the local retailers, I'm happy to have one in the village.
grum - I like Iceland, the staff in there are fantastic and can't do enough for you 🙂
I occasionally use the one in Knutsford. They now stock 3 types of Gluten Free beer, 2 by Nick Hambleton and the best one which is wold top brewery's Against the Grain. The general GF range is also pretty good.
Booths can't be that posh, we have one in Blackpool. Very nice, as long as you're not in a hurry, their staff like to chat to you 🙂
ALE.
Nothing more to say really.
Lady Gresley. They are very friendly. A warmer friendly than Pret. Hard to describe?
Used to frequent the one in Kirkby Lonsdale when up that way. Haven't been for a while. May need to pop over to Meeja City.
The nearest to me is Media City, Salford. I love it to bits. Brilliant food, wines and beers and the staff are genuinely helpful and affable. If I call in for a "few bits" it normally costs £60+ as I get carried away. Last time I popped in I bought a bottle of Knob Creek by accident....
Another Booths fan, although if you really want to blow the budget Cranstons Cumbrian Foodhall in Penrith is always a good bet.
A convenient Booths was the main requirement for my recent house search 🙂
W'mere and Knutsford (in the past). As above good but expensive
I alsays end up with their steak sandwich plus their cafe lets you eat said grub in their.
m&s say only cafe bought food in their cafe
Sorry to buck the trend, but when I lived in LSA, I just didn't get the whole Booths thing, or how they appeal to the 'common man'.
Not a supermarket so limited choice.
Fair enough, but then what they did have was nice, but way to expensive!
Saw some nice motors though, parked outside.
Mark Owen used to work in the kirby lonsdale store pushing trolleys. At least he had his tax deducted at source
Booths always fondly associated with holidays in the Lakes especially the Windermere branch in the old station buildings. Fair spread through Lancashire and Cumbria with furthest East in Ripon at the moment, although there are early plans to come to Malton which is very local to me and will cost me a fortune.
The one here in Ulverston is rather fine! Probably the best in South Cumbria at the moment. It is one thing I will miss if and when we move on (the beer aisle in particular - it is vast and full of loveliness!)
I keep wanting to visit the Penrith one when passing as that looks HUGE but get waylaid by Cranstons. We are considering moving up that way possibly though!
Keswick used to be my local but I would frequent the Media Circus one when I was down south. It was all good apart from the beeb luvvies taking ages in the lift....
Now this sounds my kind of place.Cranstons Cumbrian Foodhall
To everyone saying how expensive it is. Well not really. You are paying fair prices to farmers and local suppliers when shopping at a family run store such as Booths. Tesco just have everyone who supplies them by the short and curlies 😕
Mark Owen used to work in the kirby lonsdale store pushing trolleys. At least he had his tax deducted at source
Really? Mark Owen only moved to Kirkby after he was famous in Take That!? He used to come in the cafe where I worked quite regularly. 😕
grum - I like Iceland, the staff in there are fantastic and can't do enough for you
Knew I should have said Farm Foods. 🙂
I went to Booths last night. I came out with loads of Longley Farm yoghurts, a beef puff pastry pie, fresh pasta and a couple bottles of beer. £15! 😯 Saying that.... I did get a few different yoghurt flavours...
The new Booths at Media City is a really smashing store and the other good ones are Windermere and Garstang. Our nearest is Clitheroe, which is not such a nice building but has all the excellent local produce and an amazing selection of gins and beers, which they sell at good prices - usually eight bottles of something like Wainwright's bitter for £10.00.
One Christmas Mrs Gti and I were doing some last-minute shopping in Clitheroe where they had a packer at the end of each belt, to keep the shoppers moving briskly. Ours was a very tall, senior-looking gentleman whose name badge I didn't read. I casually asked him if they knew how many tons of product was going across the tills in a day like that and he came straight back with a string of statistics and inside knowledge that astonished me. As we left the store Mrs Gti told me: "That was MR BOOTH!"
Booths is my local supermarket and to be honest it's quite comparable and more often than not cheaper than the big supermarkets. I think the reputation for price is because there are plenty of things in there which are quite a lot more expensive, so the final bill ends up more.
I don't like this move to self service tills. Part of the reason for going in there is the staff are so friendly. I'm boycotting those tills and to be honest it looks like a lot of people are also. They've cut half the tills in our one now so the queues are even worse than usual!
Fantastic selection of beers/ales/ciders, and they started in Blackpool donkeys years ago.
Only place I can get Ringwood Brewery stuff up here!
Drac - ModeratorThere's no vikings any more.
[b]are[/b] NOT "is"
...and it's northern [u][b]England[/b][/u].
I don't like this move to self service tills.
I refuse to use them anywhere. But then I remember the good old days when a chap used to come out to fill your car up and wash the windscreen. You tell the kids of today that...
As we left the store Mrs Gti told me: "That was MR BOOTH!"
I understand that, within the business, he'd b referred to as Mr Edwin. (And Simon Booth as Mr Simon, etc.)
Rather charmingly traditional, yet friendly at the same time. Whatever they call them, the service at my local store (Hesketh Bank) is excellent and my daughter insists we go into the cafe before we shop. Cheese and ham toasties.... yum!
I like them- had a good fry up breakfast in the one in Keswick, and I hear they're a bit more ethically committed than some of the others. As a Midlander though I only ever see one when I'm up in the Lakes, and even if there was one locally I doubt I'd do all my shopping there.
Booths is great, as others have said, tye beer selection is excellent as is the rest of the booze.
They sell mini kegs of St. Peters, Budvar and Adnams. Bonza!
When I worked for Arighi Bianchi in Macclesfield the boss was of course Mr. Bianchi as was his brother and father and sons. So it was traditional to call them Mr. Paul, Mr. Anthony and so on. as with Booths.I understand that, within the business, he'd b referred to as Mr Edwin. (And Simon Booth as Mr Simon, etc.)
[b]Bunnyhop[/b] there's even a cafe upstairs
The one in Kendal is my local when we're down at the inlaws. The cafe in there is very nice.
And it does knock waitrose into a cocked hat- more fortnum and mason really.
The one here in Ulverston is rather fine! Probably the best in South Cumbria at the moment. It is one thing I will miss if and when we move on (the beer aisle in particular - it is vast and full of loveliness!)
Yes yes yes! The few times I make it up there to visit the family, the beer aisle is the first port of call. Not ashamed to admit I usually weep with joy when I get there.
When I worked for Arighi Bianchi in Macclesfield the boss was of course Mr. Bianchi as was his brother and father and sons. So it was traditional to call them Mr. Paul, Mr. Anthony and so on. as with Booths.
I remember being tasked by one of them to sell the business. Deal was forever on and off. I had to question the capacity for even short term decision-making....
Kendal was is decent. As has been said "ale"! Great for that! Good selection. And they do a fair bit of good meats, game, rabbit, guinea fowl and the likes.
It's fairly common in companies to call people "Mr (first name)" - our Chairman used to be called Mr Dennis and his son Mr Paul.
Unfortunately my name being Ben, my Sudanese customers all call me "Mr Bean" for some reason!
Edit - double post
There is talk of one coming to Marple where I live, as long as it doesn't take custom away from the local retailers, I'm happy to have one in the village
Is Stockport a village now? Blimey, ruralisation moves on apace 🙂
It was when I was a lass, all green fields, as far as the eye could see.Is Stockport a village now? Blimey, ruralisation moves on apace