Food shopping

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1589686]
ETA: I'll leave it to you to decide what "often" means.

ETA2: We (largely meaning adaese) buy food from:
- the local corner shop, which is a small Tesco (milk etc)
- the not quite so local supermarket, which is a Sainsbury's (when we need items that the local Tesco doesn't stock)
- get deliveries from Sainsbury's
- get weekly fruit and veg deliveries, and occasional meat deliveries, from Riverford
- go to the market in Bristol.

Comments

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Where is Waitrose and "My local Wholefood workers co-operative"?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I forgot Waitrose! *facepalm*

I'll leave it to you to decide what category to put "My local Wholefood workers co-operative" under.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

I decided it was a local shop. For local people.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

+1 on Waitrose here!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

... I'm lumping farmers markets under 'farm shop' by the way...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I read that as, "I'm humping farmers ... " ;-)

[overconvergent.livejournal.com]

"Young Farmers Do It In Wellies!"?

+1 for Waitrose btw.

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

+1 on waitrose.

But more often Morrisons.

Also Budgdens (not very often, about as often as M&S - one is one side of the station, the other, the other).

What about mail order food? Fairly regularly Traidcraft, but occassionaly other specialist folks.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

ooh, I forgot about Morrisons. That's another +1 from me!

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

Seconded for both - I put the co-op under "independent".

[emperor]

Waitrose.

[muninnhuginn]

Market stall for extra fruit and veg. most weekends.

(Twice [roughly] yearly trips to local wholefood co-operative plus a couple to Waitrose.)

I suppose I ought also to have ticked Fortnum's.

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

Mostly, though, it's the butcher, the greengrocer, the fishmonger, very infrequently a farm store (because that duplicates one's own production), and of course Abbey Stores and Harrison's and Bird & Carter when wanted.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I'd love to be able to tick "Farm Shop," since I do shop at the farmers' market whenever I can. However, since it's only open on Friday mornings, "whenever I can" equates to "once or twice a year, when I've taken Friday off because gaming is about to happen in my house." And even then, Prince Charles went and threw me out of it when I attempted my sole visit of last year.

This is the long explanation of someone who feels guilty about only ticking big national supermarkets, and wants to wave a tiny, hopeful little Local and Worthy Flag.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

+ Waitrose/Ocado

And markets, when I can.

[tree_and_leaf]

You forgot 'local market', which is my major source of fish and often of veg.

I would shop at the Co-op if there was one handy.

[thecatsamuel.livejournal.com]

I shop at the supermarket where I work because I get a staff discount :))

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

Another Waitrose.

[juliebeth.livejournal.com]

When I lived in England I shopped at Tesco and the local village market days. Here in Germany I use Kaufland, almost like Tesco. Sometimes we go over the border to France to shop at Cora for really fresh fish and of course wine and cheeses and saucisse.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

One more for the posh people's supermarket and unlike bunn, I ticked 'Somewhere else' for farmers' markets.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

The independent shop in question is Box of Delights at the east end of Woodstock, which is branded as part of the Premier network.

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Waitrose is our local corner shop

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

How about 'direct from the abattoir!' Last week, one of my customers, admittedly with perhaps a slight leaning towards hyperbole, described my beef as 'the best in the world'!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Remind me to come round sometime! :-)

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome, though I'm a vegetarian!

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

When I lived on your side of the pond, I spent a fair amount on treats from M&S.

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

The market.

[clarienne.livejournal.com]

We get a big online shop from Sainsburies about fortnightly. We used to use Tescos online until they made a double charging error that left us 80 quid short for a week!

Top ups are from the excellent Bristol Sweet Mart, and smaller local shops. And sometimes The Evil Tescos.

I used to visit the farmers markets in St Nicholas, but it's a bit out of the way when I'm loaded with kids.

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

There's a great fruit and veg place at the next village but one, and a co-op on the way back from work ;)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

There's nothing directly on my way back from work, although I can make a detour via the small Tesco. There is a very small Smiths at work, which sells things like milk and biscuits.

[segh.livejournal.com]

What is Sainsbury's for? To keep the chavs out of Waitrose.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Chortle.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

What philmophlegm said :-)

[garamondbophin.livejournal.com]

The supermarket I use most often (near the station and with late hours) is currently a Waitrose, having previously been a Somerfield, before that Morrisons and when I moved to Croydon: Safeway. A lot of the staff and some of the products are still the same...

If I'm going to other shops (e.g. electrical or clothes) further into the town, I'll generally try a combination of Sainsbury's and M&S, just for a bit of variety, and I occasionally shop elsewhere (the Polish deli for doktorska sausage, Murray's Meat Market for feather steak etc.), but you did say often.

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

Answered the poll for when we lived in the UK, and the "other" was Morrisons, since it was practically next door.

[miss-t-ide.livejournal.com]

Waitrose. We do our weekly shop at Waitrose and then I walk to Sainsbury's during the week for top-up items. It's very near the house and I don't usually buy more stuff than I can carry in the basket under the pram.