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Where do you food shop? (poll + opinions)

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    #11
    tesco - its the only one that delivers.

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      #12
      Waitrose?

      Waitrose?

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        #13
        Order of preference:
        Waitrose
        Sainsburys
        Tesco
        M&S
        Other (Netto/Aldi/SPAR/etc)
        ASDA

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          #14
          Tesco all the way but only because its close

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            #15
            Originally posted by Bagpuss View Post
            M&S was the first supermarket to ban transfats in their products. Banned in the USA and Denmark, they are in almost everything at ASDA and Tesco, including bread.

            trans-fats lead to coronary heart disease, infertility and according to some american studies cancer.

            http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles...articleId=2145

            http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science...rogenated-fats

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              #16
              Waitrose for the dull stuff and the local deli/butchers/fish shop for the rest.

              M&S smells of old ladies and is stacked high with microwave meals for one.

              But that may just be my local one.

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                #17
                Originally posted by Bagpuss View Post
                M&S was the first supermarket to ban transfats...
                M&S was the first to double-wrap vegetables in plastic (when others sold them loose).

                M&S was the last to switch to dolphin-friendly tuna (they said it was just a fad).

                M&S was just about the last to cotton on to not using BFK food colouring.

                M&S was also just about the last to cotton on to not using tartrazine and its ilk in children's drinks. M&S has always been the worst offender from an additives perspective.

                M&S was very pro-GM and publicly criticised organic food and good animal husbandry. I'm surprised Twiggy took their blood money.

                I can't be arsed to carry on, but from a green perspective, M&S should have gone down the pan ten years ago.

                The last clothes [white work shirts] I bought from there started coming to pieces in the first wash. Their product quality became appalling.

                Retail has always been cut-throat, but M&S have always had the worst reputation by far amongst their suppliers.

                No matter how hard they try to convince the market they have changed, some of us will never forget. I wouldn't cross the road to pee through M&S's letterbox.
                My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
                  M&S was the first to double-wrap vegetables in plastic (when others sold them loose).

                  M&S was the last to switch to dolphin-friendly tuna (they said it was just a fad).

                  M&S was just about the last to cotton on to not using BFK food colouring.

                  M&S was also just about the last to cotton on to not using tartrazine and its ilk in children's drinks. M&S has always been the worst offender from an additives perspective.

                  M&S was very pro-GM and publicly criticised organic food and good animal husbandry. I'm surprised Twiggy took their blood money.

                  I can't be arsed to carry on, but from a green perspective, M&S should have gone down the pan ten years ago.

                  The last clothes [white work shirts] I bought from there started coming to pieces in the first wash. Their product quality became appalling.

                  Retail has always been cut-throat, but M&S have always had the worst reputation by far amongst their suppliers.

                  No matter how hard they try to convince the market they have changed, some of us will never forget. I wouldn't cross the road to pee through M&S's letterbox.
                  You are Jeremy Paxman and I claim my five pairs of M&S Y-fronts.

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by zeitghost
                    Then again, M&S don't appear to stock spanners & things for getting boyscouts out of horses' hooves... unlike my favourite Lidl...
                    So what sort of place is Lidl

                    There is one not too far from where I live, but based on the general area immediately around it, instinct has told me that I don't want to go in it. Am I wrong about that?

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                      #20
                      Asda because it's closest. Tesco before we moved house the last time because that was closest. Sainsbury at the house before that because that was closest.

                      Don't care where I shop as long as I haven't got too far to go and the parking is easy
                      Confusion is a natural state of being

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