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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Miss Demeanour on September 21, 2012, 09:29:26 AM
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2205975/Waitrose-Twitter-backlash-I-shop-Waitrose--I-dont-like-surrounded-poor-people.html?ito=feeds-newsxml (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2205975/Waitrose-Twitter-backlash-I-shop-Waitrose--I-dont-like-surrounded-poor-people.html?ito=feeds-newsxml)
The store giant tried to harness the influence of Twitter by launching a promotional campaign asking for people to finish the sentence ‘I shop at Waitrose because…’
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Only a handful of the tweets were from genuine customers wanting to sing their praises.
Dear Evie tweeted: "I shop at Waitrose because Clarrisa's pony just WILL NOT eat ASDA Value straw."
Geetee wrote: "I shop at Waitrose because the toilet paper is made from 24ct gold thread. (Unless its the Essentials range)."
My alter ego posted: "I shop at Waitrose because darling, Harrods is just too much of a trek mid-week."
Ben Drage said: "I shop at Waitrose because I want to prove to Jeremy Kyle that I am not a 21-year-old dole scrounging father-of-two."
"I also shop at Waitrose because I was once in the Holloway Road branch and heard a dad say "Put the papaya down, Orlando!"
"I shop at Waitrose because it makes me feel important and I absolutely detest being surrouned by poor people."
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lol: lol: lol:
I like Waitrose.... redface:
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so why do you shop there ? ..............
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so why do you sho there ? ..............
Because all the staff are so friendly and well trained like! Thumbs:
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... the basket aisle says "10 items or fewer" not "10 items or less"
... their parking spaces are wide enough to open fully all the doors of a Range Rover. whistle:
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I like Waitrose too. great restaurants/coffee shop. In the area of Hampshire that I last lived in we had a Waitrose closer to us than any other supermarket. We used to go there for coffee, lunch sometimes. cloud9:
However it was frequented by yummy mummy's and then an older generations of over 65's. They all wore uniforms and none of them realised it.
I will try and find pictures but for the YM's it involved a rain coat which came down to their bums, the coat had to be green or blue, a handbag had to be diagonally across the body the bag bit to be on the hip, chino trousers or jeans would be worn jeans regular blue narrow at ankle . chinos beige also narrow at ankles. flat boat like shoes to be worn. The yummy mummy's children were always appallingly behaved and I once stood on ones hand as it was having a squalling fit on the floor which was not being dealt with. eveilgrin:
Over 65's picture Mr and Mrs DS on a shopping trip to Waitrose.
Miss D cover your eyes.
It's an excellent place to be when they reduce their calamari on the fish counter. cloud9:
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Over 65's picture Mr and Mrs DS on a shopping trip to Waitrose.
sad24: All those years of carefully cultured individualism only to find out from Miss C that I am a stereotype.
noooo:
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I saw Carol Vorderman in Waitrose in Maidenhead... cloud9:
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Over 65's picture Mr and Mrs DS on a shopping trip to Waitrose.
sad24: All those years of carefully cultured individualism only to find out from Miss C that I am a stereotype.
noooo:
If truth be told DS I have a friend named Tim and I see you as an older version with added turnips.
http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/business/tims-a-brick-38436.aspx (http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/business/tims-a-brick-38436.aspx)
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I saw Carol Vorderman in Waitrose in Maidenhead... cloud9:
Clear up in aisle 3 ................. noooo:
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Over 65's picture Mr and Mrs DS on a shopping trip to Waitrose.
sad24: All those years of carefully cultured individualism only to find out from Miss C that I am a stereotype.
noooo:
If truth be told DS I have a friend named Tim and I see you as an older version with added turnips.
http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/business/tims-a-brick-38436.aspx (http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/business/tims-a-brick-38436.aspx)
DS = A man outstanding in his field.
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My friend Tim has pot's of money but shops in charity shops and has holes in the sleeves of his jumpers.
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I showed this to my boss, just before she gave me a lift into Kingston - she was going to Waitrose. lol:
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We will have created another satisfied shopper in a Boris Karloff sort of way. cloud9: