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Messrs Waite and Rose, formerly of Acton Hill [ http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02324/First-Waitrose-190_2324410k.jpg ], now of the John Lewis Partnership's Test Valley Leckford Estate [fished it, sent a girlfriend out to go and work for the group so that I could - silly stockie trout, whacking great wild grayling] and many a well-appointed food emporium near or probably not near you, are experiencing a little difficulty.
The Waitrose effect is well-known to estate agents whose raison d'etre, of course, is to see formerly ordinary and quite run-down areas / districts going up in the world, and, with them, the arrival of a Waitrose to cater to the new awfully naice residents, so compounding but not concreting over the new gentrification.
Now, the problem is coffee. Give a valued Waitrose customer a freebie and you see them revolting about "It's all going to the whippets on a string crowd ... to Iceland with Kerry Katona ... to the morbidly obese ... becoming a soup kitchen...."
Oh, the revolting middle-class English.
Waitrose faces middle-class revolt over free coffee loyalty card - Business News - Business - The Independent
The Waitrose effect is well-known to estate agents whose raison d'etre, of course, is to see formerly ordinary and quite run-down areas / districts going up in the world, and, with them, the arrival of a Waitrose to cater to the new awfully naice residents, so compounding but not concreting over the new gentrification.
Now, the problem is coffee. Give a valued Waitrose customer a freebie and you see them revolting about "It's all going to the whippets on a string crowd ... to Iceland with Kerry Katona ... to the morbidly obese ... becoming a soup kitchen...."
Oh, the revolting middle-class English.
Waitrose faces middle-class revolt over free coffee loyalty card - Business News - Business - The Independent
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