You don't need a picture of me. You just need to know I shop in Waitrose. Nuff said.
But, I think my original thought has been lost. It's nothing about snobbiness, more a general observation that on my supermarket oddessy today the people got uglier as I descended down the value chain.
I'm sure jaffa cakes sold in Aldi are the same as those in Waitrose - they're just eaten by less attractive people.
Oh. And thanks for the tip about Waitrose in Lincoln. I need a nice organic beef joint tomorrow and Waitrose do an excellently trimmed one 🙂
So, am I a stuck up ponce because I would rather have confidence in where the food I buy comes from? Especially in regards to animal welfare and preserving the links between farming and the environment? (+1 for the CoOp, by the way, they do a great deal on local and ethically sourced food!)
I can choose to drive 7 miles each way to Tesco/Sainsburys or walk five minutes to Waitrose, its also next to the bus station where I get off on my way home
Not willy waving, just shopping locally,saving petrol costs and valuable time
Did the same in London when my nearest supermarket was Sainsburys in Walthamstow Market.
You don't need a picture of me
Yes we do mate; oh yes we do! Come on, money where your mouth is! Let's see what an amazingly beautiful and attractive person you are! Let us be the judges of where you should and shouldn't shop, eh?
CaptainFlash: I was making a point about snobbishness, not criticising those who shop in a particular supermarket. I shop at Waitrose, ffs, and I'm proper scum! (Standards really have slipped; they let in anyone these days) 😀 it's just that I don't judge people by where they shop; as for their looks, I've seen some stunning ladies in LiDLs, and some right 'munters' in Waitrose. and vice-versa.
Waitrose is just as corporate and ****y as anyone else. I know people who've worked in their head office. They've told me a few interesting facts about Waitrose's 'organic' and 'high-quality' foods, let me tell you.. 😉 (Same crap as everywhere else, just clever marketing).
Happy Shopper FTW!!! 😀
Apart from the obvious troll, why do some think this thread is a bit highbrow ?
No one is willy waving on this thread, but there does seem to be people that feel the need to defend their choice of supermarket....
Go figure.
So, am I a stuck up ponce because I would rather have confidence in where the food I buy comes from?
Nah mate, you're just a stuck up ponce (who doesn't realise his sentences shouldn't finish with a preposition) 😀 😉
(only joking fella, I loves ya really)
Seriously though S****...you're trolling, surely? Or are you this disagreeable in real life?
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Strangely enough, in the world of beautiful people that shop in Waitrose, there are those that try and replace simple words with ones that sound a little more clever, but then mess it up by not spelling them correctly.
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HTH.
Love the grammarnazism, Darcy! 😉
CFH obviously has an American spell checker 😉
Still waiting for those pics, Rs****... 🙄
No. Really no picture of me is needed.
It's like skin cream. Use it and stay younger looking and wrinkle free. Don't use it and look like Dot Cotton by the time you're 30.
Shopping in Waitrose IS my beauty regime. I'm sure I've spotted wrinkles since going into Asda.
I stand by my assertion. People who shop in the more quality supermarkets make more effort and look better for it. Those who are more concerned with filling thier trolleys with cheap food look, well, cheap......
It's like the old saying about owners looking like thier dogs. Same us true for supermarket customers - with Asda being the Staffordshire Bull Terrier of the world.
Edit: sorry about the spelling. I'm typing this from my iPhone
Love the grammarnazism, Darcy!
You're so perfect Flashy that I have to find the smallest little things...
I'll be paying close attention to my spelling/grammar for the next few days 🙂
I shop where ever it is easy to shop. My fellow shoppers have little bearing on the experience.
Waitrose i claim 15% partner discount so i instantly have good reason to shop there, i like the beer/wine range and fresh stuff tends to be brill.
Tesco, big/ or small convenience locally, and coop in my village.
As for only choosing a market because it fits in with the badge on the bonnet of car you drive etc. tosh.
The fatties that I see walking around the local Sainsburys really could benefit from going on the Waitrose diet.
I lost ten pounds when I started doing my weekly shop at Waitrose.
No. Really no picture of me is needed.
Yes it is!
Ha! You've been called on this one, and you can't show your hand! 😆 Come on; where's yer mugshot?
I'm typing this from my iPhone
I find the accused guilty of being a Ponce.
Case dismissed!
I lost ten pounds when I started doing my weekly shop at Waitrose.
So did I when I bought those hand picked and dried vanilla pods from Madagascar along with the olives stuffed with chillies grown by Lebanese pixies followed by Tuna, seduced from the oceans by blind mermaids singing "Rio" by Duran Duran. It was expensive, but hey, I'm worth it 🙂
seduced from the oceans by blind mermaids singing "Rio" by Duran Duran
😆 Quality, DD!
Simply exquisite DD, delectable cuisine befitting of the distinguished English gent you clearly are!
it must be great to be the cream on the genetic pool...
Lol.
'Booths' for me, shame there isn't one nearer.
Co-op is the only one in our village. Loads of fat,old, uglies in there.
it must be great to be the cream on the genetic pool...
Surely you'd know sfb? No? 🙂
Simon (FB), you miserable git, get a life, FFS its just a thread on a website!
you miserable git, get a life, FFS its just a thread on a website!
surely people with lives would not feel the need to slag off the disfavoured on a website ?
Not a bad troll.
is there a pic yet?
Lichfield Waitrose is full of WAGS on a weekend - The car park is like a Porshe / Ferrari battleground.
Lichfield Tesco is also full of NAGS on a weekend - the car park is like a LADA / Skoda battleground... nuff said.
I couldn't care less what the people in my supermarket look like!
If the cheapest places are full of ugly munts I'm happy to shop there - if it's convenient.
My favourite foodstuff is probably bread, closely followed by cakes, and as such Morrison's are my favourite of the big supermarkets - their bakery is just miles better than any of the others. Unfortunately they don't have much presence around Surrey though - it's very much a Sainsbury's/Waitrose mix here.
Oh and if you have a Lidl in your neighbourhood then you really do live in a sh**e area.
Well there's one in Farnham and Leatherhead - better areas than most for sure.
Breaking news...... they've just opened a Lidl in callmedave's constituency, he is afterall a man of the people!
It's like the old saying about owners looking like thier dogs. Same us true for supermarket customers - with Asda being the Staffordshire Bull Terrier of the world.
I think staffordshire bull terriers are better looking than you actually.
plenty of fitties in local asda, whether I ever get a chance is another matter!
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I like shopping in the cheaper stores, from Aldi through to Morrisons/Asda.
The food is as good as the dearer brands, and I always get called Sir and treated well - especially when well dressed.
CaptainFlashheart - MemberSo, am I a stuck up ponce because I would rather have confidence in where the food I buy comes from? Especially in regards to animal welfare and preserving the links between farming and the environment? (+1 for the CoOp, by the way, they do a great deal on local and ethically sourced food!)
I would be very careful in trusting what a retailer says it does compared to what it actually practices in the real world.
Having worked in the food industry for over 20 years I can tell you that Waitrose & The Co-Op are no different than almost all the others (Tesco are worse though)
I sidestep the alledged ugly customer base of Tesco by getting my shopping delivered. When I do have to go in a store it's usually Morrisons as it has a lush salad bar.
The Co-Op are no different than almost all the others
an insider tells me their ethical investments are equally iffy 🙁
LOL @ some people taking this thread seriously 😆
No question that there is a direct correlation between looks and affluence. Well off blokes tend to marry/have children with good looking totty, as indeed good looking totty go for men with money in order to provide well for them and their offspring. It's the law of nature, therefore on balance, the better the area and the more 'up-market' supermarkets will see a higher proportion of attractive customers, and vice versa.
Drarse In answer to your question, I shop at Lidl and blend in quite nicely - nuff said 😥 Their fruit and veg is excellent and I take a lot of satisfaction from buying naturally shaped produce as opposed to the perfectly round/straight offerings demanded by the 'posh' places.
Most of my shopping is done at the local Co-op, of which there are 2 in my small village. Amusingly, the one at my end is always cheaper than the one at the other, presumably because the other end has a new'ish private estate. I only found out this the other day when a well meaning individual told me that bottles of cider were on special at £0.75 at 'my' Co-op and they were £1.75 at the other. The fact that I was browsing the wine section for a robust red at the time seemed to entirely escape him. Still, it's the thought that counts 😉
Indeed young Woody.
My next supermarket study will be looking into where people with no sense of humour shop. (lidl judging by the responses).......
Still waiting for that pic, Rs****.... 🙄
No question that there is a direct correlation between looks and affluence.
Utter, utter bollocks. Wealthier people simply have nicer clothes, better make-up, perhaps. The only real difference is that obesity is more prevalent in poorer communities. But I see just as many fat, blotchy people in Waitrose as I might in Tesco. As for 'doing themselves up'; it's a supermarket, ffs! Perhaps the Proles are less pretentious than the nice Middle Class types...
I live in London, so you get a wonderful mix of people anyway. In one area, you'll find some stunning Colombian women, in another, gorgeous ****stani women. And so-on. Diets vary between different groups; tbh, many people in Britain eat a lot of crap, whereas many Asians and Africans in some of the poorer areas may eat a more 'basic' yet healthier diet. Certainly more fresh veg and stuff.
I think what the OP wants to say, is that in Asda, you get more fat 'Chavs', whereas in Waitrose, you get more 'Yummy Mummies'. But to take a sneering, condescending attitude toward people based on their looks and perceived 'Class', is just stuck-up ignorant snobbishness. And perhaps a secret plea to want to fit in with the 'Beautiful People'.
Come on, Rs****; let's see the pic! Let's see if you're a Waitrose, man, a Tescos Man, or, God Forbid, an Iceland man....
Good thread in a strange way; exposes the snobs on here, shows up their petty-minded ignorant prejudices, and serves to invalidate anything they may say henceforth, regarding class, culture etc. If you've posted prejudiced shite on here, we'll know you're a snob, and therefore not to be taken seriously in future. Thanks! 😀
There's a link on page 3.
I'm waiting for Rs**** to post up a pic. See if he's actually got the bottle to... 😀
Utter, utter bollocks. Wealthier people simply have nicer clothes, better make-up, perhaps.
Utter, utter bollocks. Go to a riverside pub on a Sunday lunchtime in eg. Barnes and then go to one in Erith...............there is only so much that you can compensate with nice clothes and make-up!
Wealthier people are also less likely to be obese or smoke and generally have an easier life, less real stress etc, all things that help you to look better.
Although when you get to a certain level of wealth the gene pool probably become a bit too restricitve hence all the horsey faced 'rahs'.
i was nearly born in asda in stockton.... thankfully my mum got to hospital in time
'visually offensive people' lol!
