Winchester Waitrose

Customerservice Food Hampshire Shopping Store Waitrose Winchester

2009-10-10

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.

Comments

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 2010-03-05 11:21

<i>to think you passed near my front-door and did not pop in for a cuppa...... - tut tut</i> 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 (<i>caveat:</i> 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 {<a href="http://www.waitrose.com/branches/branchdetails.aspx?uid=463" rel="nofollow">see their website</a>}

— Lxs 2009-11-22 23:35

@Dave, yep.

— andrewferrier 2009-11-08 08:45

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 2009-11-07 20:12

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 2009-10-11 07:53

Thanks for the recommendation. Just ordered with Ocado. We'll see how it pans out :)

— andrewferrier 2009-10-10 23:15

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 2009-10-10 15:09