the #WaitroseReasons fail

Basically, the reasons why "you shop at waitrose"

Par example?

OK..

12m Joseph Guthrie‏@TheAuracl3
I shop at Waitrose bcuz itz where I cn link al de fit wimmenz, innit. #WaitroseReasons

15m Phil‏@AlteredCourse
I shop at Waitrose because I can wear chinos and still feel like a peasant. #WaitroseReasons

17m james rose‏@undercoverman

I shop at Waitrose because I like watching Daily Mail readers support neo-socialist institutions #WaitroseReasons

17m jonhickman‏@jonhickman

I shop at Waitrose because I'm a social media commentator working on a rather pedestrian critique of the #WaitroseReasons fail for my blog

21m Martin Carr‏@Martin_Carr

I shop at Waitrose because all the other supermarkets are full of povs and stainers. #WaitroseReasons

and how it began:

Waitrose ‏@waitrose

Finish the sentence: "I shop at Waitrose because ________." #WaitroseReasons

10 Sep Tony Dolce‏@TonyD9999

@waitrose excellent staff in Kingston Alex Dolce is amazing #WaitroseReasons

10 Sep Waitrose ‏@waitrose

VIDEO: Take a look at just some of the reasons to shop with Waitrose: http://bit.ly/TC2lPX What’s your number one reason? #WaitroseReasons

haha @ Martin Carr...

I used to shop at the 'trose but that's because my door step was practically on their car park and also when they reduce food they don't just knock a couple of pence off, they knock whole quids off.

Sorry, I know that's not very funny.

my entry:

Mark G
#waitrosereasons I shop at Waitrose cuz my family did in 1973 and I thought we'd be shopping on the moon by now, but no.

most of these are awful and not funny

As some bloke just tweeted, this is hardly the social media marketing disaster it's being held up as. At the end of the day it's given Waitrose renewed publicity which they would probably welcome, however many lolz people are getting out of them at the moment.

yeah and there are barely any tweets about it anyway. twitter is so full of reactionary shit from armchair lefties.

also Waitrose is the leftiest national supermarket iirc

but that never stops a kneejerk lib-u-like

yeah exactly. plus like, are tesco or sainsburys supposed to be somehow superior, morally?

tesco label their value products really clearly for people with reading difficulties

sainsbury's sponsored the paralympics or something

tesco's rats are now free range.

sainsburys once retweeted a blind boy.

This is neither funny enough nor a big enough failure to actually merit a thread.

no but if i post 25 snarky comments i've been told i get a free Waitrose shopping voucher

like

dammit 18 still to go

Well, it seemed 'fresh', so if it does not eventually turn into a lolfest didaster of epic proportions, my bad.

hmm, did I mean didactic or didaster there? Poll!

or even disaster..

also Waitrose is the leftiest national supermarket iirc

also it has the best stuff in it. i fucking love shopping at waitrose, when i can afford it.

actually, 1) it's closest 2) it's local 3) the only shop that does the earl gray tea w/like best 4) particular nutty muesli 5) it's close.

also it has the best stuff in it. i fucking love shopping at waitrose, when i can afford it.

it's not necessarily expensive if you pick and choose, but in practice it tends to be hard to resist the pricier stuff the fruit and veg tips it over the edge, but the standard is indeed far better than everywhere else.

only problem is it's actually quite expensive, except for booze which is remarkably cheap. I guess you get what you pay for though. I can't really afford to shop there unless it's for a few "bits".

their own brand shower gel is quite cheap, and is the tits. and OH their fennel salami. and they carry fentiman's orange jigger.

lots of the essential stuff isn't particularly expensive.

Yeah but if you did your whole weekly shopping there I guarantee it would be significantly pricier. They do have some pretty good offers. I know this, I lived in their car park and would have regular heartattacks when my g/f would come back with a £30 plastic bag of food that would have usually been about £12 anywhere else.

idk i think you have the option of buying expensive stuff but you dont have to - like LG said, the essential stuff is comparable to tesco prices

i <3 waitrose and wish there was one near me

I generally use the price of a red pepper as a barometer of inflation and shopping comparison.

I love the Colombian coffee faux Magnums (which Magnum stopped making). They also used to do really good, interesting ready meals (would occasionally get a reduced one for lunch) but now they seem like the bog standard fare.
It's weird, I look at the prices of most things in Waitrose and think they're reasonable - not for everything, but usually they don't seem way off - but added together I spend way more there than I think. The answer is probably that Tescos etc prices are just far cheaper than I would guess.

tescos are fuckin supermarkets as hitler would have run em

it's the veg and fruit, definitely. meat and stuff isn't hugely pricier in waitrose.

tesco is indeed awful tho, sainsburys is a lot nicer. my view is slightly coloured by tesco on bethnal green road which is hellish.

I feel such burning, seething resentment every time I give Tesco my money. There is no other shop I know of that I use so much that fills me with such contempt for the human race.

They've just opened a wee metro-size one at highbury corner and I've been in loads. In fact I've kind of defected from lidl. There's obviously tons of ultra pricey stuff, but like dog latin says, when they reduce things they practically give it away. Bagels for 9p! Crab pate for 50p! Their discounts make me feel like dr zoidberg.

Also, the whole partner thing. <3 u, lewises.

In fact I've kind of defected from lidl.

I mis-read that as 'I've defecated in Lidl'.

hah!

RIP Afrikan Boy

what supermarkets *don't* do zany cheap end-of-day discounts? have seen straight up moshpits at the reduced counter of the Tesco round the corner from me

Right enough. Maybe I just notice them more in waitrose because I can't afford normally priced stuff..

the other week i had two people in quick succession note that they'd seen me around the local tesco. i felt so bad about myself.

One time, returning home from dropping off w&k's at grandparents for 1/2 term hols, basically a week in the house on my own (=4nights before returning on Fri)...

Popped into Tescometro, found zanyoffers, got all week's evening mealstuffs for a grand total of £2.74

Thesedays, passing through M&S, you do see hoards of people waiting for the chuck-out man with the yellow stickers. How many people take their prizes home and say "OK, kids! Here's tonights evening meal! Executive Sandwich Platter with side order of Hommus!"

We shop at Waitrose but I am mad at them since they recalled their Chinese range and replaced it with totally inferior product. The egg fried rice is all gluey mush now and the chicken fillets are disgusting. FML.

Yeah, they packed the Thai stuff, didn't they?

I feel such burning, seething resentment every time I give Tesco my money. There is no other shop I know of that I use so much that fills me with such contempt for the human race.

― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 17 September 2012 19:50 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This. I think I started a thread a while ago about how Tesco have pretty much taken over from any other shopping method for me, simply because there are about three of their express stores to and from my way to work. And I fucking hate myself for shopping there, but they also happen to be cheap and way more convenient than anywhere else.

I do not give ANY money to Tesco, ever - all their goods could be 5p and that wouldn't change. Also, I'm probably not shopping anywhere that does UK tax avoidance or takes on unpaid shelf-stackers etc. from the Jobcentre. The warm feeling I get when passing a Tesco is a) the sense of being morally superior to Shirley Porter or Iain Duncan Smith, but who isn't? and b) calories, burning, as I take a bit longer to walk to Waitrose, M&S or Sainsbury's - all supermarkets I'm happy with.

I'm not happy with Sainsbury's because they opened a central or local or whatever on The Cut, not a quarter of a mile from the one outside Waterloo station, which is not only completely redundant but also a huge step towards the boring homogenisation of a decent and individual little street.

I should really take up my boycott again, but when Tesco is the only supermarket for miles around it's not so easy just to nip out and get a bite to eat on a short lunch break. I've tried my best to avoid it - bring my own food into work etc but I'm often so busy in the evenings I forget to prepare anything and on those days it just stops being practical in any way for me to go anywhere else. There's a newsagent and I'd get a sandwich from there, but those things are extremely manky inedible affairs. And yet I honestly do hate myself every time I find myself in a Tesco.

Sainsbury might have a slightly more ethical approach but I find their food to be kind of bad value a lot of the time (slightly below-par produce, slightly higher prices and the lcosest one near me always seems to run out of essential stuff which makes the extra trip feel like a waste of time.)

I'm not happy with Sainsbury's because they opened a central or local or whatever on The Cut, not a quarter of a mile from the one outside Waterloo station, which is not only completely redundant but also a huge step towards the boring homogenisation of a decent and individual little street.

now with a byron too

They spread like molasses. Rumour has it they're closing the local football club to build a Tesco Extra in its place, which means yet another handy Tesco on my journey home.

xp Costa and Pret more annoying, and the start of the problem. It was after they moved in that the landlord of the excellent little kitchen shop where the Sainsbury's now is doubled the rent, and they had to close. Oh well can't win 'em all, Lower Marsh is still holding out well.

the "extra" and "express" shops are really horrible, generally true for sainsburys too. selling onions in threes, everything in a packet, crap meat, limited selection, and high prices.

everything in a packet is the wurst.

yep. & sooo many of those sainsburys local's have opened on mare street/cambridge heath road in the last year

I have no problem with onions in threes, but then again nearly everything I ever cook begins with chopping an onion. Cosign the other objections though.

Britain needs rent controls for business space as much as residential really but no fucking way is that happening any time soon.

I dunno, I use onions non-stop too, but it does irritate me having to buy them in a pack of three, I don't know why. Partly cos I like to touch a veg before buying it I guess, also those onions in the packs feel like the shape is standardised or something.

A guy in the Cambridge Heath Sainsburys local tried to tell one of my pals that they don't sell garlic, the other day! This fucking country!

I don't know why anyone in a neighbourhood with Asian/Turkish grocers shops for garlic in a mini-Sainsbury's, unless it's some kind of emergency. I am very lucky to have a good butcher, an Asian shop and The People's Supermarket (I'm a member) within yelling distance of my flat, and I use them before I use the supermarket for the items you'd expect specialists would be best/cheapest at. The 20 per cent members' discount at TPS is very useful.

Waitrose is where I get most of my condiments and they are now doing the fig jam friends used to bring me from Paris, so that's a win (friends have been redirected to smoked duck), and if I'm not getting two pounds off the price of a ready-meal due to red labelling, it stays in the shop. My closest Sainsbury's is great on Sunday afternoon, when about a dozen old Cantonese women hover near the bargain cooler and lunge for mark-downs. Other hoverers seem deferential to/scared of them.

I don't know why anyone in a neighbourhood with Asian/Turkish grocers shops for garlic in a mini-Sainsbury's, unless it's some kind of emergency. I am very lucky to have a good butcher, an Asian shop and The People's Supermarket (I'm a member) within yelling distance of my flat, and I use them before I use the supermarket for the items you'd expect specialists would be best/cheapest at. The 20 per cent members' discount at TPS is very useful.

because none of the Asian/Turkish grocers near me sell meat/fish.

because a bunch of bananas in my local Turkish grocers costs 2 fucking quid

sorry that sounded angrier than i meant it

LOOOOL also garlic is not meat/fish or bananas (yuck) and it's always cheaper/better quality in the 'ethnic' shop, as is chilli and ginger. All WC1 needs is a decent Turkish shop with fresh Turkish loaves delivered every day and I'd be all set.

yeah but the thing is having to go to two different shops, sometimes i do it but not at peaktime, it'd be madness.

also you're not actually listening to me, the local ethnic shop is not cheaper, nor is it better quality.

but if the point is to tell us about how great your area is you could start a thread

This is all very well, but if one doesn't have the wage and doesn't live in the right area it's not so easy to shop at ethnic/ethical/premium stores. Buying garlic at the supermarket makes sense if the only time of day you can go shopping is 7pm at night (assuming you don't live in Central London)

of course it does, and this romantic attitude towards "ethnic" shops makes no sense anyway, they're not good by default, or cheap by default.

Supermarket vegetables / fresh produce is horrible compared to even the crappiest looking shop with some veg out front where we are. Had some tomatoes from Haringey end of Green Lanes last week that were out of this world only a couple made it into the pan lol

Yeah in some parts of London the crappy looking shops tends to have pretty o_0 veg looking at you mile end / whitechapel / beth green. Have found good butchers but not good veg shops, would like some recs if anyone knows any!

which butchers do you use? the ones on roman road are decent ime, but again, shopping in the evenings means they're not an option.

yeh roman road near that square bit, he's a friendly chap, then the market on saturdays can be v good

yeah he is nice actually.

Most butchers are open super-early to facilitate the local restaurants who pick up orders, so if you've got a good butcher on Roman Road, make time to shop there before work. Can't solve the veg problem because I think the market makes it problematic for traders to run a veg shop that's not a shite convenience store with a few fly-bitten bananas for £2.

it's v impractical overall, you know. i also find it difficult to think what i want to cook until the afternoon, plus there's exercise in the morning.

at some point i'll prob start using one of the delivery services a bit more, but it doesn't solve every problem.

as mentioned it really depends on your area. Stoke Newington/ Green Lanes are replete with excellent Turkish grocers, when I lived there the only time I would go to a supermarket was if I needed to buy pork. Walthamstow, where I am now, has a great street market with cheap fruit & veg, butchers etc.- but as with LG this isn't much use after work.

amazing fruit and veg shop near newington green as well, i miss it now i'm a tottenhammer

Yeah, the Newington Green place is outstanding. It's great that it stocks niche stuff like salsify and cobnuts but also has loads of really good value fruit and vegetables. It's a resource that the whole community can use and is always packed as a result.

I'd like to think that it's a model that could be rolled out elsewhere.

they opened another branch on Church St fairly recently, so I wouldn't bet against it.

this is in all the papers today, i'd say a definite success story for waitrose. can't imagine it's any harm for them to cement their branding as a posh supermarket.

Yeah the "failure" is pretty mild here, possibly because no one actually hates Waitrose enough (imagine if Tesco had done this exact same thing). I suspect the whole thing was engineered from the start.

Maybe so. I c&P'd the thread title from someone elses twitmessage, so.