Spotted Xantias! (and other French stuff)

[CitroJim]

On most cars (but not all), the fuel pump icon on the fuel guage is on the same side of the guage as the filler is on the car. Shoot that down.

One of my cars bucks that trend... Not sure at the moment which... I think it's the Pixo...

[van ordinaire]

Geez, I'm glad someone understood; icon, fuel guage - doesn't compute!

[Michel]

Spotted this AX today in Waitrose car park..

76k miles at last MOT

[Timmo]

An Ax In Waitrose! :-O i thought the Waitrose car lark was the special reserve of oversized german people carrying wagons.....

[Michel]

An Ax In Waitrose! :-O i thought the Waitrose car lark was the special reserve of oversized german people carrying wagons.....

Most of them are but ours seems to have a sense of realism about it. I've spotted loads of non-waitrose vehicles in there. I'll not post pics as non of the others were French! Well, just the one..

[Fake Concern]

I saw a Xantia estate today in the same red as Davie's Gabby. I had to walk around it twice to check, it was a bit tatty with a bent front wing, but no lacquer peel.

[CitroJim]

An Ax In Waitrose! :-O i thought the Waitrose car lark was the special reserve of oversized german people carrying wagons.....

I love to take my older cars to Waitrose, especially my Ka, just for the looks they get - and then the looks I get when I walk in the shop... Especially if I cycle there

I'm looked at down the collective nose of the typical Waitrose client and made to feel I'm really not welcome The staff too don't approve in general...

The place is so snottly it appears to have a permanent cold...

It makes me smile and often giggle... If their fresh food wasn't so crap and their prices weren't so outrageous I'd go there regularly just to wind-up the clientèle...

One of the best ways is to stroll in with an Aldi shopping bag - closely followed by a Tesco one...

The stereotype of the typical Waitrose client is pretty much true - in Milton Keynes at least...

[Hell Razor5543]

That does NOT sound like the branches of Waitrose I used to deal with (when I worked for one of their service providers). Certainly the branches in the Reading area were polite and courteous to all of their customers, regardless of appearance.

[CitroJim]

Maybe Milton Keynes is an exception James

I can only speak as I find... I've not visited any other branches of Waitrose so can only comment on the one - as I made clear above

I sincerely hope it is just confined to my local one... Others say their fresh food is above reproach and of highest quality but in Milton Keynes it, in my view, is not...

I do wonder how good/bad/indifferent a branch is, compared with others, depends upon the local management...

[Timmo]

Jim, going into The local corner shop after a few hours down the dirt jump park is always comical, knee pads, elbow pads, std baggy mtb jersey, occasional dribbles of claret adorning shins (or as the season opener last year all over forehead and nose!), buying beer generally wafting Odour ala Cyclist!
Often thought, Is it possible tp actually cycle in to a superstore, cyvle up the isle you need, collect items, head to billy no mates self service till and pay, rid eout without unclipping Or getting mauled by captain security!

[CitroJim]

Often thought, Is it possible tp actually cycle in to a superstore, cyvle up the isle you need, collect items, head to billy no mates self service till and pay, rid eout without unclipping Or getting mauled by captain security!

Hey, now there's a thought

I'm tempted to give that a try in our local Waitrose

You really shouldn't encourage me

I'm in a very devilish mood today....

[Michel]

Maybe Milton Keynes is an exception James

I can only speak as I find... I've not visited any other branches of Waitrose so can only comment on the one - as I made clear above

I sincerely hope it is just confined to my local one... Others say their fresh food is above reproach and of highest quality

Ours is great and the staff are lovely. I suspect it's because they're all locals and Twyford is a relatively small "village". We don't get many outsiders travelling to go to Waitrose as there are others around in Woodley, Reading, Bracknell and Marlow so the clientele are mostly local too. Some of them have obviously disappeared up their own arses but most are ok.

The staff in the cafe love me I always nip in, some times have a bite to eat ... but I always clear my own table and make sure I'm very nice to them. I often get larger portions I've also been known to defend the cafe staff against whingers and those types Jim was on about..

[CitroJim]

Ours is great and the staff are lovely. I suspect it's because they're all locals and Twyford is a relatively small "village".

That fairly proves it then All down to locality...

Whenever I visit a cafe/eatery/etc. I always clear the table and leave it clean and tidy... Second nature for me but you and I seem to be in the minority in that respect Mike... No wonder the staff love you so!

It staggers me too just how infrequently you hear the words 'please' and thank you' are used toward staff in such establishments and shops these days...

[Hell Razor5543]

My experience of Waitrose is that, on the whole, the partners all care about their customers and their needs (and all work together as a team). I remember calling into the large branch in Reading (to fix a printer), and the atmosphere was all wrong (subdued, quiet, sad; it was as though the whole store was in pain). I just HAD to ask why it was so, and I was told that one of the female partners had received some terrible news (her favourite nephew was in the Army, and had been killed in Afghanistan). The branch manager had told her that she could have as much compassionate leave as she required, but she had turned it down, saying that she needed to work to take her mind off the pain. Although she was not in a fit state to be out on the shop floor everybody in that branch rallied around her, giving her all of the help and support she required. Never did anybody say anything like "Leave your problems at the door", which may have happened at less caring shops.

I got on well with the staff at all of the branches I visited regularly. I remember having to replace three C&P devices at the Twyford branch, a week or so before Christmas. To do all three would take an hour (they had to be individually configured), and the checkout Supervisor was not happy with that (he was all for closing the calls and arranging for a re-visit after Christmas). I explained to him that although I would cost him an hour in doing my job, the amount of time that would be saved by using the C&P devices as opposed to the old paper method would make up that easily. When I was back there about a month later he sought me out, and admitted that he had not initially been convinced, but within a day of the new devices being fitted he could see that the affected checkouts were running more smoothly.

Whenever I called into the Sunningdale branch, if one checkout Supervisor was on we would spend the next few minutes swapping dirty jokes. Although customers could hear us doing this not only did none of them complain, but sometimes they would join in. Great fun, and nice people to do business with.

[Mandrake]

One of the best ways is to stroll in with an Aldi shopping bag - closely followed by a Tesco one...

We always take bags from competing supermarkets into stores. We take Lidl bags into Asda and Tesco when we go there and vica versa.

Not just for the wind up, but so we can't be accused of not paying for the bags...