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.
Tags for Forum Posts: Haringey, Waitrose, crouch end
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Who can afford to eat out all the time? We have to buy food to cook at home.
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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I can...
... perhaps because I'm not mortgaged up to the eyebrows, don't have a leased car, don't pay for a satellite TV provider, or have ten credit or loyalty cards to pay off every month.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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or any children....
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Well, funny you should say that, but I don't have ANY of those either.
Nor do I go in for Schadenfreude.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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My people, all your decadent pursuit of conspicuous consumption, your eating out, your fresh fruit from across the seas in season and out of season, your obsession with the temples of Crouch End gluttony - all of these contain the seeds of your destruction.
Personally I blame the Elder Cato (Cato the Censor). Classicists among you will remember that he ended every speech, whatever the topic, with his call for Carthage's destruction: Delenda est Carthago!. On one occasion, circa 603a.u.c, he scattered a handful of plump North African figs*,remarkably fresh, from the folds of his toga onto the Senate floor. While the Senators salivated over their freshness he told them: 'These were plucked from the trees of Carthage the day before yesterday. Just three days' sail from your gates.'
Yes, Carthage was destroyed - but ironic that it was Cato the Censor who may have sown the first fig seeds of the Roman Republic's decadent end.
So first, down with Waitrose, Budgens' and Tesco. Deinde, Cr(o)uci Finis delenda est!
* Of course some scholars suggest that Cato was challenging his fellow senators' manhood by making a visual pun on the latin slang 'ficus' (as in Italian 'fico', Spanish 'higo') - but naturally that is not a matter for discussion on a family website before the watershed.
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Permalink Reply by Sapphireblue on
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Have a friend who's wife opened a small neighbourhood 'warung' (shop) in her community/family area on the outskirts of a town in Java, Indonesia, selling groceries etc. Its been running successfully for the last 5 years along with several other small local shops. Very recently a big supermarket opened in the area. Business in the small shops has been killed stone dead, they are all shutting down.... this is what happened here in UK 20-30 years ago.... I remember Camden in the early 80s for example, veg shops, fishmongers, butchers, bakers, etc... all gone by the 90s.
Budgens is a supermarket which is relatively small and specialised, good deli stuff and v tasty locally produced frozen meals - it used to be rubbish but then got a makeover a few years back and is now pretty good... Waitrose does pose a big threat... but what would we like there instead?
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