Cheap cars in expensive supermarket, vice versa
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Has anybody else come across this? Of course most cars in a supermarket car park are your general endless derv powered grey shapes but it seems that people with expensive flashy cars are going to rubbish shops and vice versa. I was in Asda a couple of weeks ago and came back to an 11-plate BMW 640 parked badly right next to me. I was very careful by the way and i didnt harm their precious car but i also noticed Jags, new Ford's, 59 plate 3-series and a few others.
More recently i ended up in Waitrose where most of the cars were 10 year old Japanese things or modern Korean cars. Is it possible that some people are throwing all their money into their car that they cant afford nice food and others are putting up with rubbish cars to have nice meals?
More recently i ended up in Waitrose where most of the cars were 10 year old Japanese things or modern Korean cars. Is it possible that some people are throwing all their money into their car that they cant afford nice food and others are putting up with rubbish cars to have nice meals?
Maybe the people with cheap cars at "posh" supermarkets are brain fed into thinking if they buy food from said shop it will be ace and pick up boxes and boxes of gastro type ready meals and have endless conversation with their friends how good this ready made stuff is and swear by it.
The folk in "poverty spec" supermarkets could be buying cheaper fresh food to then make really nice grub from scratch.
Whatcha think ?
The folk in "poverty spec" supermarkets could be buying cheaper fresh food to then make really nice grub from scratch.
Whatcha think ?
There is zero difference in the quality of food on offer in all the supermarkets. Only the packaging and the marketing differs. Food is food.
I have recently managed to get the wife to understand this and subsequently our food bills have halved, whilst sacrificing nothing in terms of quality and taste. We have changed from Waitrose to Aldi.
Perhaps, by realising this, shoppers in "low rent" supermarkets are saving enough maney to enable them to buy up market cars. Coming soon to my driveway and local Aldi car park: A VW Phaeton.
I have recently managed to get the wife to understand this and subsequently our food bills have halved, whilst sacrificing nothing in terms of quality and taste. We have changed from Waitrose to Aldi.
Perhaps, by realising this, shoppers in "low rent" supermarkets are saving enough maney to enable them to buy up market cars. Coming soon to my driveway and local Aldi car park: A VW Phaeton.
Alot of truly wealthy people know better than to show it off in hard times. They have probably suffered from jealousy in the past and its cost them dearly so they know to keep it on the low and enjoy it to themselves.
People from a certain demographic like to show off to all and sundry because they have maxed out everything available to lease a car one better than yours.
People from a certain demographic like to show off to all and sundry because they have maxed out everything available to lease a car one better than yours.
martin84 said:
I was in Asda a couple of weeks ago and came back to an 11-plate BMW 640 parked badly right next to me. I was very careful by the way and i didnt harm their precious car but i also noticed Jags, new Ford's, 59 plate 3-series and a few others.
All "on tick" my friend.... 
Panda76 said:
Maybe the people with cheap cars at "posh" supermarkets are brain fed into thinking if they buy food from said shop it will be ace and pick up boxes and boxes of gastro type ready meals and have endless conversation with their friends how good this ready made stuff is and swear by it.
The folk in "poverty spec" supermarkets could be buying cheaper fresh food to then make really nice grub from scratch.
Whatcha think ?
Or they leave their decent cars at home and just drive the 'runabout' to the supermarket?The folk in "poverty spec" supermarkets could be buying cheaper fresh food to then make really nice grub from scratch.
Whatcha think ?
I'd never leave my car(s) in a supermarket car park regardless of it being Tesco, Waitrose, etc. Last time I did a stupid bint opened her car door on mine whilst she was loading her car up. She told me it's just a car so why should I get upset. Now we get Ocado deliveries so I can avoid the great unwashed
Oh and to the poster above, there is a definite difference in the quality of food between supermarkets.
Suppliers too but then iirc you have to pay some small fee for the card.(costco)
As for foods coming from the same factory well it pretty much does.
Biscuits branded and supermarket brand all from the same factory as is a lot of other items.
Where the hell supermarkets get their own baked beans from mind must be a mystery as they are rank.
I do have a soft spot mind for Aldi Bratwurst sausages.
As for foods coming from the same factory well it pretty much does.
Biscuits branded and supermarket brand all from the same factory as is a lot of other items.
Where the hell supermarkets get their own baked beans from mind must be a mystery as they are rank.
I do have a soft spot mind for Aldi Bratwurst sausages.
VoziKaoFangio said:
There is zero difference in the quality of food on offer in all the supermarkets. Only the packaging and the marketing differs. Food is food.
I have recently managed to get the wife to understand this and subsequently our food bills have halved, whilst sacrificing nothing in terms of quality and taste. We have changed from Waitrose to Aldi.
Perhaps, by realising this, shoppers in "low rent" supermarkets are saving enough maney to enable them to buy up market cars. Coming soon to my driveway and local Aldi car park: A VW Phaeton.
I have recently managed to get the wife to understand this and subsequently our food bills have halved, whilst sacrificing nothing in terms of quality and taste. We have changed from Waitrose to Aldi.
Perhaps, by realising this, shoppers in "low rent" supermarkets are saving enough maney to enable them to buy up market cars. Coming soon to my driveway and local Aldi car park: A VW Phaeton.
Always be sure to take your best car and wear your nicest clothes so everyone knows you are there because you choose to save money and are definitely not poor.
I love supermarket threads of PH.
Benny Saltstein said:
Costco carparks always have a selection of top end metal in. The membership criteria (which I've never quite undertstood) ensures a higher than average proportion of company directors and the self employed.
So long as the company directors and the self employed are all powerfully built, sounds like the perfect place for a PH Sunday Service!Well if we work on the assumption of buying 'branded goods', and on the basis it costs the same these days (or basically the same), I would personally choose Waitrose over say, Morrisions, as it won't be full to the gunwhales of chavapotomi with their many offspring.
On the other hand it will be full of middle aged, middle class, Daily Mail readers.
The more I think of it, the more it is like choosing which leg I would like chopped off.
On the other hand it will be full of middle aged, middle class, Daily Mail readers.
The more I think of it, the more it is like choosing which leg I would like chopped off.
I cook from scratch and buy known brands. So a tin of heinz beans is a tin of heinz beans, and a fresh tomato is a fresh tomato.
Maybe its new money vs old money, old money is not ashamed to buy basics form cheap supermarkets?
I don't know a lot of my friends shopping habits, but I know the ones that shop at Waitrose or M&S., because they like to tell me they do. :roll eyes:
Oh and I actually am a company director, with not quite a 640 mine is a 650. I normally shop at aldi, local butcher, local wine dealer,local farm shop. 
Maybe its new money vs old money, old money is not ashamed to buy basics form cheap supermarkets?
I don't know a lot of my friends shopping habits, but I know the ones that shop at Waitrose or M&S., because they like to tell me they do. :roll eyes:
Oh and I actually am a company director, with not quite a 640 mine is a 650
. I normally shop at aldi, local butcher, local wine dealer,local farm shop. Edited by Major Fallout on Monday 9th January 17:22
VoziKaoFangio said:
There is zero difference in the quality of food on offer in all the supermarkets.
That's not really true - much is common to all supermarkets, but there are lots of items that Waitrose stock and Lidl don't, and vice-versa. VoziKaoFangio said:
Only the packaging and the marketing differs. Food is food.
Not all branded and unbranded goods are the same. For instance, if you can find me a cheaper alternative to this in a different bottle, I'm all ears, because I've tried several supermarket own brands when this hasn't been in stock, and they've all been utterly crap:
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