Waitrose and the Heston Black Forest Buche

QuackQuack_2

fluffnutter wrote: »

Your experience seems to have disappointed you. But I will say this for Waitrose... their Black Forest Buches are to die for. Delicious!

I know it says 'be nice to other MSE'ers' but, I HATE YOU.

brettcta

QuackQuack wrote: »

The cynic in me wonders if the target demographic for Waitrose is based upon making customers think they are 'better' than other people who shop in such menial places as Sainsbury's, Asda or Tesco?

that's exactly it. the hideous, stuck-up bint who used to live next door once told me she only orders off ocado so that people see the van outside her house and know (read: assume) she's got money. her house was repossessed 4 years after she moved in, which suggests otherwise

fluffnutter

QuackQuack wrote: »

The cynic in me wonders if the target demographic for Waitrose is based upon making customers think they are 'better' than other people who shop in such menial places as Sainsbury's, Asda or Tesco?

As the late Alan Coren once said... "I love Sainsbury's. It keeps the riff-raff out of Waitrose". A man after my own heart.

meer53

QuackQuack wrote: »

I have to agree it has its target market sector - I just wonder who these people are?! Do they enjoy paying over the odds for average food with lousy service and long, slow moving queues?! I guess I'm just not middle class enough to be tolerant of it!

The cynic in me wonders if the target demographic for Waitrose is based upon making customers think they are 'better' than other people who shop in such menial places as Sainsbury's, Asda or Tesco?

From what I've seen today, if you break the shop down to price, quality, service and stock availability it's a pretty poor customer experience!

I used to think Asda was rough, but annoyingly they seem to get it right most of the time. If I could change anything about them it would be their lousy cheese, their frequent changing of item sizes, recipes and specifications - oh, and I'd ban customers from wearing tracky bottoms and showing off their midrifts!

I have to admit it - I'm just not posh enough to shop at Waitrose. I don't feel included because I just can't switch off to high prices, average quality, poor service and poor stock availability. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Real Waitrose customers won't respond to this message as they will tolerate anything you chuck at them - wannabe Waitrose customers and imposters, however, may reply below............
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I WANT THAT CAKE! GIVE ME THAT CAKE! I'LL WAIT IN THE QUEUE!
I'LL LET YOU LOOK DOWN YOUR NOSES AT ME, I'LL EVEN APOLOGISE FOR NOT BEING POOR! JUST GIVE ME THAT CAKE!

I think there are definately people who will pay over the odds for their groceries from Waitrose because they think its beneath them to go to Asda or Tesco or wherever. Personally, i go for both quality and good prices. I use more than one supermarket, depends what i'm looking for. Lidl have some fantastic quality produce at a fraction of the price elsewhere. They also sell some rubbish ! Same as anywhere else really. Don't know why people look down their noses at Lidl customers though. If people want to shop in their PJ's, doesn't bother me, i'm not taking them home am i ?

meer53

brettcta wrote: »

my housemate works there and brought 3 home this afternoon

looks like it's black forest buche on christmas day for this cat

Now you know why you can't get one quackquack, the staff are taking them all :eek: Surely they should limit the amount staff can buy ?

brettcta

he's on nightshifts all this week aswell, so if any more come in, POW, more buche than you shake a liquorice bootlace at

peter_the_piper

How much are they on ebay? Bet someones got some on there. yep

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=heston+black+forest&_sacat=0&_odkw=heston+black+forest+bruche&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313

Mupette

I love Heston, his christmas stuff for waitrose looks lovely, i want...
But seeing the price no effin way

QuackQuack_2

brettcta wrote: »

he's on nightshifts all this week aswell, so if any more come in, POW, more buche than you shake a liquorice bootlace at

Bad news on the Liquorice Bootlace. They, too, are out of stock.


Mind you - I did spot a semi bargain in there - Finish Dishwasher tablets at half price. I imagine the average Waitrose customer would not have known what they are, having several servants to do such menial chores like 'the dishes'. Anyway,with "Offer expires Friday" flashed on it I was not confident that I would have sufficient time to get through the checkout and take advantage of the reduced price seeing that it was already Wednesday when I went in.

I did see Hyacynth Bucket in there looking for a Christmas roasting Swan to go with her Millionaires cheesecake.

paddyrg

There seems to be a lot of inverted snobbery on here - Waitrose is another supermarket, selling supermarket stuff, but their differentiator isn't the race to be the cheapest, but to be somewhere you can get quality stuff in a more relaxed manner. Aisles are typically wider, no loops of Christmas carols on the PA, seemingly fewer toddlers running rampant. A bit more expensive, but if you can afford it, and that's what you value, then why not? Like first class train travel, if you can afford it and prefer a quiet spacious journey with fewer kids, why not?

In fact, if Waitrose consciously chooses to keep out the 'this is £1.05 here, but 99p in Asda' crowd when they don't want to be caught up in a race to the bottom, well done them.

I know why queues are a bit slower sometimes in Waitrose - it's because the checkout staff will wait for one customer to leave before serving another, and will be generally courteous to each one. I noticed an old boy customer who took a little while to put his shopping away, and exchanged pleasantries with a cashier, bit of a queue behind him (that he was unaware of). The cashier explained that her manager encourages them to be polite in such cases as "remember, you may be the only conversation that customer will have that day" - totally melted my heart that that level of care and courtesy was local policy (is it national policy too?). I will pay a few pence more for that, and happily.