Can anyone give me a good reason why I should switch to Waitrose.

gazelle8760

The Gazelle just adores Waitrose, but it seems to be just rezerved for those that live in "The South", if we had it up here in Cheshire, then I doubt I would ever be out of the place

billieboy_2

gazelle8760 wrote: »

The Gazelle just adores Waitrose, but it seems to be just rezerved for those that live in "The South", if we had it up here in Cheshire, then I doubt I would ever be out of the place

Have you tried their branchfinder? If you put in your postcode it will tell you your nearest branch. Definitely some in Cheshire and even as far as Edinburgh.

hells_2

Whereabouts in Cheshire are you?
There's a Waitrose in Cheadle Hulme, one in Buxton, and Wilmslow too.

Although I try and stay away from the place, as sadly yes, it costs way too much to do your weekly shop there, popping in for convenience stuff is asking for trouble, the tempation to buy all their weird and wonderful items (compared to the big '3' supermarkets) means I go a bit mad...:rotfl:
Although I'm just off to have a look at Ocado now to see what I could get...never done an online food shop in my life!

PixiePie

A good reason to shop at Waitrose isn't able to be seen by price comparison sites - they seem to do a lot of meat cuts that just aren't available from the other supermarkets, that are a LOT cheaper and really really tasty (eg Ox cheek), so you won't get a comparison on them, but if you were to put in a comparison to a similar bit of meat (eg stewing steak) then you'll see it's cheaper and (imho) yummier at Waitrose.

Plus they do boxes of 9 eggs, in their essentials range, which is very handy for us as 6 isn't enough, 12 too many :rotfl: (Don't know if any other supermarkets off 9 now though).

Generally the non-ready meal stuff is better quality imho - the fruit and veg seem to last longer, the meat is less fatty, more tasty so you use less, and have better choice of cuts, and they are the only supermarket I know that still closes every night and therefore have proper reductions as standard (ie 500g of beef mince for 30p!!) instead of the 10p off I see in Sainsbury's.

hells_2

Well, last night I took the plunge and made my first ever internet shop with Ocado. We're having a bit of a house party on Saturday and whilst we've got all the alcy hol from Asda (lots of lovely offers), I'd have had to go of an evening to do the food shop on the way home from work...and I find it stressful most of the time.

With the 15% discount code, the whole lot came in cheaper than any other supermarket, which is nice. Although delivery charge is usually a fiver or so, I just asked for 10.30pm delivery tomorrow night for £1.99, and still, the shopping came in less

Let's see what the man in the green van brings me tomorrow night. I hope I'm not disappointed!

TraceyJ_2

I've asked this elsewhere on the forum but haven't received a reply. Do you receive a voucher for a free item every time you shop from Ocado or are they just trying to entice me at the moment?! I'm on a one month trial of 'on demand' which runs out on Monday hence my question.

Thank you.

thriftlady_2

TraceyJ wrote: »

I've asked this elsewhere on the forum but haven't received a reply. Do you receive a voucher for a free item every time you shop from Ocado or are they just trying to entice me at the moment?! I'm on a one month trial of 'on demand' which runs out on Monday hence my question.

Thank you.

I used Ocado about 3 times and got a free bottle of wine each time- well worth it. I then stopped using it because I prefer to do my own shopping so i can't tell you if the offer carried on but I would think not. Compared to Tesco online Ocado was way better.

Reasons I shop at Waitrose

1) They stock local produce like Worcestershire asparagus and apples, Herefordshire rasps and Teme Valley ales.

2) All their meat is British and all their pork and bacon and ham is outdoor reared (I think).

3) Quality is paramount and choice is not limitless -a good thing in my opinion.

4) The aisles are wide and uncluttered.

5) It doesn't smell of drains like my local Tesco.

6) It doesn't smell of unwashed people like my local Sainsburys

7) It is quiet. I've never heard a parent screaming at their kids in Waitrose (except when it's me screaming at my kids).

8) The staff are the most helpful, intelligent and knowledgeable supermarket employees I have ever come across.

I just love my local Waitrose (Droitwich branch) and look forward to going there every week. I do however get most of my meat and nearly all my fruit, veg, milk and eggs from a local butcher and farmshop.

luce181

I thought I would check out the price differences on my supemarket. Just did a quick 'shop' on my supermarket using ocado, i looked for the following basics:
milk
bread
bananas
apples
cheddar cheese
ham
eggs
chicken
beef mince

I added waitrose essential products or the closest I could find, and the price results were interesting:

Tesco: £17.02 Asda:£21.12 Sainsburys: £25.27 Ocado: £19.13

So Ocado is not always the most expensive, and the bonus is that I would expect the products to be waitrose quality.
The problem when you do the comparison of trollies is that a lot of the products are different sizes/quality to the ones I originally chose in Ocado so it is really hard to do a realisitc comparison :rolleyes:
For example,
I put this in my trolley:
£6.14
(£11.58 / Kg)
Essential Waitrose Boneless Chicken Breasts (4 per pack - Approx 530g)

When switching to Tesco it chose these:
£3.51
(£9.00 / Kg)
Tesco Skin on Chicken Breast Fillets (Approx 390g)

When the equivalent would be more like:
£7.49
(£12.49 / Kg)
Tesco Willow Farm Skinless Chicken Breast Fillets (Approx 600g)

It's worth checking what the price comparison is actually for!

geoff2

bomb_the_cherry wrote: »

I've been to Waitrose and there isn't a difference in quality to most other places. Factories that produce goods for them (say a chicken pie for example) just produce lots of that one item, and give it different packaging for different shops. You could go to one supermarket and pay £3 for your chicken pie, or go to a cheap one and pay £1.20 for it and it'd be exactly the same.

That's a bit of an exaggeration. If it were true, then the "£3" supermarket would have gone out of business long ago. However, there's probably a correlation between, say, Tesco Finest and Sains TTD and I wouldn't be surprised if they came from the same factory. [Incidentally, "If it's not Kelloggs ON the box, it's not Kelloggs IN the box" - I for one say "Hurrah for that, keep your sickly sugar-soaked rubbish and your tacky packaging, Mr K.!"]

HappySad

I do my main shop @ Sainsbury online monthly then visit Waitrose weekly to purchase fruit. there fruit is so fresh. They last ages & the apples are cripsy when Sainsbury's would have gone fury. I love the taste of their extra large oranges.