Winchester Waitrose
Just come back from the new Winchester Waitrose. Upsides are:
- Large; decent selection of food.
- Looks like usual upscale Waitrose food quality.
- Pleasant, well-turned out, professional staff (Sainsbury’s Winchester, I’m looking at you here).
- Clean and well-presented store (once again, a glance in Sainsbury’s direction).
Downsides:
- It’s too far out of town. OK, it probably isn’t if you have a car, I admit. I’m in the minority by avoiding one for cost reasons (which might cause one to question why I choose to shop at Waitrose, so it probably works for most of their customers). But, for me, it is a trek. I’ll probably be trying out Waitrose Deliver to see if that might help.
- Poor range at fresh bread counter.
Have you not used Ocado before? I preferred them to Waitrose deliver as they regularly send you discount vouchers and had very competitive ‘tesco pricematch’ prices, as well the majority of Waitrose own-brand products.
Dom
10 Oct 09 at 16:10:55
Thanks for the recommendation. Just ordered with Ocado. We’ll see how it pans out
andrewferrier
11 Oct 09 at 00:10:06
I think your review covers every Waitrose in the country
The only problem I found with Ocado is that sometimes you get very short best before dates on the fresh produce.
Good to hear it’s opened, I went to Romsey yesterday to do my shopping!! and just in time for my move to San Francisco……
Rob
11 Oct 09 at 08:10:58
Is that the one on the Stockbridge road ? The one that looks like a cross between a shop, a health centre and a block of flats ( possibly because it is ) ?
Dave Hay
7 Nov 09 at 20:11:37
@Dave, yep.
andrewferrier
8 Nov 09 at 08:11:33
to think you passed near my front-door and did not pop in for a cuppa…… – tut tut
I find the shopping experience at this new Waitrose to be a vast improvement on the alternatives in the local Winchester area – and supreme in comparison to the city centre Sainsbury’s (caveat: I have not visited the recently refurbished Tesco in Winnal).
Whilst this Waitrose is the closest for me – I have only shopped there a handful of times. I have made use of Tesco home-delivery service, and find the quick-finder search tool to be a positive enhancement.
You might want to try the in-store Waitrose experience again on 8 December, between 6pm-9pm – for their “Christmas Evening”
…welcome drink & various festive tasting points {see their website}
Lxs
22 Nov 09 at 23:11:53
Best to visit Winchester Waitrose without a car. Carpark a nightmare, they had to take down a big wall ’cause cars kept hitting it. Waitrose refuse to share their safety audit prior to build of basement carpark!
Never go again.
Cat
5 Mar 10 at 11:03:17