It's not just food, it's M&S profits

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Smashing wrote: »

The adverts drive me barmy.

This isn't just any old chicken.. its a lovingly hand fed luxury grown super fat organic sleeps-in-a-bed re-mortgage-your-house expensive chicken.

These aren't any old potatoes....

Yes, they are - they're bloody spuds. Shut up you stupid woman.

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COOLTRIKERCHICK

cant remeber the last time i bought food from m & s

but when i did it was when i was single lived on my own and had a m & s credit card......

so yes i find them very expensive ( took me a few years to pay for it ...lol.....)

i think its a special occasion or one off place to buy ...imo

Plum_Pie

As I live by myself, if I want to eat something for dinner like a meat pie (i.e. take a lot of prep, isn't worth doing for 1) but don't want to go to a restaurant for a meal, then I would buy one in M&S. I too buy meat in Waitrose and M&S as the taste and texture seems to be better than for other supremarkets, I find the price of veg etc shocking in those shops though so almost get other bits there.

daisyroots_2

I wouldn't call Upper Holloway a village, but still try to support local traders - buy fruit and veg from the market stalls in Holloway & Seven Sisters Roads, and only go in M&S to use the cashpoint. However, while there, I do look round occasionally, just to feel smug about what I've just paid - literally a few yards away - for my greengroceries. On top of that, the stallholder is in love with me (or so he says) and flirts outrageously. The assistants in M&S are overworked, fed up and wouldn't even recognise me. It is years since I've set foot in a Tesco and I've never been inside an Asda. A big advantage of living round here is that so many in the immigrant community still know how to shop, and we have dozens of good, cheap independent shops. The Algerian butcher in the Seven Sisters Rd, for example, does all the French cuts of meat, beautifully cut by hand, prices similar Morrisons.

Once in M&S I saw cabbage, washed, cut and in a sealed plastic bag, with cooking instructions.

teedy23

My daughter had a seasonal job with Scotbeef when she was at school, meat packaging company in Glasgow, same beef went to M&S as everywhere else just different label. My snobby sister almost took a fit, and was in aggressive denial. Wont buy from M&S as they are morally bankrupt in my opinion, and overpriced.

ScoobieGirl

lil_me wrote: »

When my sister worked for a factory couple of years ago same chickens were priced up for M&S that were priced as ASDA smart price the day before. They didn't change the chickens, just the price labels.

Having had both Asda Smart price chickens and M&S chickens I find this very hard to believe. All the supermarket value range chickens look different, probably due to the different diet. While I can believe they came out of the same factory, I can't believe they have been fed the same diet & medicines, They just taste too different.

I love thier chunky chicken (tinned stuff) Fab on toast for Saturday brunch.

Thier fig (yes really) naan bread is pretty lush too. Although it's been a while since I've seen it in the shop

3plus1

My nearest supermarket is Waitrose, followed by M&S. There's an Iceland nearby too, but it's only small and mainly sells ready meals (not very OS).

If I'm on the go, I'll pick up a ham sandwich for £1.20 from M&S, which I think is good value for a ready made sandwich. I love M&S stuffing, but only the interesting flavours that only come out at Christmas! Apart from that, I leave M&S well alone, because it's really expensive. If I had more money than sense, I'd love to shop there though.

Waitrose is expensive, but a packet of their cheapy sausages for 99p is really yummy (of course their more expensive ones are even nicer) whereas a packet of 99p sausages from Tesco tastes horrible, in my opinion. I can't do budget bangers at Mr T's at all. I prefer Waitrose to M&S because they stock a much wider range of products (unlike M&S who only sell own brand) and the staff are lovely.

Flimsy

I haven't got an M&S locally, the nearest ones are 8-10 miles away. I do like to pop in as a treat ( but never very often) to buy the ready made jelly as it is vegetarian.

lil_me

teedy23 wrote: »

My daughter had a seasonal job with Scotbeef when she was at school, meat packaging company in Glasgow, same beef went to M&S as everywhere else just different label..

Exactly the same for the beef then, just shows doesn't it.

Some may find it hard to believe, but it all came from the same box of stuff as everyone elses, some days when a line was finished they'd just change the labels and work from same conveyor belt of stuff. No idea why it tastes any different.

Becles

Smashing wrote: »

The adverts drive me barmy.

This isn't just any old chicken.. its a lovingly hand fed luxury grown super fat organic sleeps-in-a-bed re-mortgage-your-house expensive chicken.

These aren't any old potatoes....

Yes, they are - they're bloody spuds. Shut up you stupid woman.

Try the Asda version instead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py5oYZHUXF0