Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Waitrose set to open first HaringEY branch
According to a local rag, Waitrose is set to take over the old Woolies store in Crouch End. Will people from 'our end' use it? Many people say that there are too many 'chain' food stores around, and that its opening will be a further nail for independent shops. Personally, whilst I welcome competition, I will continue to buy my fruit 'n' veg (to name just two) in Green Lanes! Discuss.
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Permalink Reply by Danzigger on
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There one on the corner of Holloway and Seven Sisters road that's closer than Russell Square
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Permalink Reply by OneWomanAndHerDog on
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I have to say, if I'm going to shop at a big chain I'll choose Waitrose over the others anyday - at least they are a partnership. About a year ago I started using Ocado to deliver my bulky shopping about once a month - topping up with fresh food from independents as I go - I've never looked back.
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Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on
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Well the credit crunch isn't affecting the locals round here then. Overpriced, bourgeois and full of champagne socialists/marxists/anarchists, should fit right in then : ) I'm off to Lidl.
The fruit and veg in Green Lanes is run of the mill grub that is fine for eating, unless your to posh for Harringay nosh.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Although I know this won't appeal to you, B2, no supermarket can better the products from Baldwins.
The apricots I bought from Yasars last week were juicy, sweet and ready to eat as soon as I got through the door...supermarket fruit and veg never tastes ripe and is often swathed in packaging.
Personally I miss Woolworths
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Liz, you bought apricots in Woolworths?!
Birdy, where did I bump into you this morning ....
PS. I'm off to the local pub.
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Eh? I think I said I bought them in Yasars. I'd never go to C End to food shop.
I bought lots of nice craft stuff for the kids in Woolworths. I miss that. Poundland isn't the same, the quality is not there for the price.
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Permalink Reply by Martha on
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I will also welcome it, but agree with other comments, Crouch End is becoming one very large supermarket - the one thing that Crouch Enders were once so proud off is disappearing very quickly. It will be nice to have a change from Sainsbury's from time to time and not need to use the car.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Seems odd - Budgens, Tesco and Waitrose cheek by jowl. Budgens and Tesco obviously appeal to different wallets but I expect to see indecisive gourmets on the pavement having nervous breakdowns unable to choose between Budgens and Waitrose.
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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Oh dear - "You are what you are, by where you shop (and are seen to shop)" - what class-ridden lunacy..
Surely, quality and good value are the key words here, not whether you're regular Champange Sozies or Blue-Rinse tories. Shopping has been turned into a lifestyle decision in the U.K. - How sad!
It's surely time to think about whether being a 'turbo-consumer society', which it is acknowledged Britain has become, is a good thing..
I find it really sad when I'm in the U.K., how many people feel they need to shop to boost their feelings of well-being and how many think of shopping as a 'day-out'. No wonder, the U.K. has much more personal debt than other Western European countries.
I do prefer the continental way of being with, eating out with the family & friends in my free-time and not sitting in front of the TV, soaking in how some TV manager has decided I should live my life.
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I have visited Germany many times and they do have over consumption too, in fact my cousin in Nurnberg is a shopperholic, she's German.
We are not all as your stereotype describes Stephen no matter how much it fills you with glee : )
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@ B2 - I know you're not all 'like that' ... But the whole point of this thread is to use a supermarkets name like a label -- drop it in in a conversation 'oh, I shop at Waitrose' 'oh you shop at Lidl?' (hand over mouth 'yuk')
and BTW it doesn't fill with me glee at all. I find it sad. I wish it were otherwise and I feel sorry for Shoppoholics 'ob Deutsch, Englisch oder was weiß ich'.. of whatever nationality.
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' we can hardly remember a time, when we did something in our spare time, other than shopping' Neil Lawson...
Take a listen here (click - time to stop shopping?), it might make you laugh, cry or even be filled with glee..
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