What's new in Waitrose supermarkets? Pulling into the car park in your petrol or diesel fuelled car, you can see the electrical points for charging an electric car. Oh, wow. This really is the 21st century. As a child I never thought I would see such a futuristic thing in my lifetime.
I wanted to see the price but you can't tell. You have to tap the right place with a card, and then maybe the price you've spent comes up?
Next offer is dry cleaning and laundry from the Waitrose supermarket at the Harrow and Wealdstone branch.
You can also get free delivery from Waitrose if you order on line. The deal in October 2015 was £30 off your first online shop. Go to waitrose.com . If you are signed up online you get emailed the latest deals.
Free coffee and a free newspaper (Sunday Times) is available if you have a Waitrose card and spend a specified amount on shopping at both South Harrow and Harrow & Wealdstone . (Check each outlet. They have changed the rules this year and it may depends on local circumstances. In one branch in South Harrow you now have to buy something to eat to get a free coffee because they have a very nice cafe which they claim otherwise gets too full with people just having the free coffee.)
Currently Waitrose have recipe cards. Looking at the October recipe card for pomegranate and honey mousse, I see that I can watch the video at waitrose.com/tv . The weekly magazine has not just recipes, but lots of articles, book and film reviews, and all sorts of news on cooking, restaurants, vineyards, wines, beers, baking and gardening and places for days out around Britain, seasonal stories, celebrity writers, and news from their suppliers around the world.
Finally, at checkout you must remember to bring bags. Otherwise you may have to buy one. Waitrose offered not just one bag but several styles. Waterproof, canvas, and silver-lining.
And?
On the way home we stopped for petrol at a garage in Harrow and Wealdstone. (I have used the word and spelled out rather than the ampersand because sometimes the word Ampersand is transferred to the reader's post.)
Garage?
As a child I would never have needed to explain to readers of my blog post (blog posts did not exist) that a garage in the UK is what might be called a gas station in the USA. The garage offered lockers for picking up parcels, like the post office boxes in America from back in the 1980s when we lived in the USA.
24 hours
If you should arrive in London, at Heathrow, at some strange hour, and have a hire car, the Watford Tesco is open 24 hours. (I can't help humming the American hit, "I was only 24 hours from Tulsa ..." My parody is 'I was only 24 hours in Tesco'!)
Also look out for the superstore supermarkets on the outskirts of Windsor. Tesco and Sainsbury's are both giants. From the outside, passing in a car or bus, you see two levels of shopping plus the eating places inside.
But even the little Tesco express has a click and collect service. We are living in a dream world.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, photographer, author, speaker.
I wanted to see the price but you can't tell. You have to tap the right place with a card, and then maybe the price you've spent comes up?
Next offer is dry cleaning and laundry from the Waitrose supermarket at the Harrow and Wealdstone branch.
You can also get free delivery from Waitrose if you order on line. The deal in October 2015 was £30 off your first online shop. Go to waitrose.com . If you are signed up online you get emailed the latest deals.
Currently Waitrose have recipe cards. Looking at the October recipe card for pomegranate and honey mousse, I see that I can watch the video at waitrose.com/tv . The weekly magazine has not just recipes, but lots of articles, book and film reviews, and all sorts of news on cooking, restaurants, vineyards, wines, beers, baking and gardening and places for days out around Britain, seasonal stories, celebrity writers, and news from their suppliers around the world.
Finally, at checkout you must remember to bring bags. Otherwise you may have to buy one. Waitrose offered not just one bag but several styles. Waterproof, canvas, and silver-lining.
Pretty outside.
Inside silver lining, presumably keeps contents at controlled temperature.
Here's the waterproof version.
Tiny bags
The tiny plastic bags which used to be free are now supposed to be 5 p but it cost 80p to buy the large carrier bag above. I now keep a couple of spare small plastic bags in each jacket pocket for a quick shop for a sandwich from a Tesco Express or Marks & Spencer. Waitress middle sized branches such as the one at South Harrow have a food to go section which has sandwiches and small size drinks and a combination meal deal. Tesco express also do £1 sandwiches and meal deals. So do Boots the chemist, for example in Watford's Intu indoor shopping mall. Another place for a £1 sandwich is Poundland in Harrow.
And?
On the way home we stopped for petrol at a garage in Harrow and Wealdstone. (I have used the word and spelled out rather than the ampersand because sometimes the word Ampersand is transferred to the reader's post.)
Garage?
As a child I would never have needed to explain to readers of my blog post (blog posts did not exist) that a garage in the UK is what might be called a gas station in the USA. The garage offered lockers for picking up parcels, like the post office boxes in America from back in the 1980s when we lived in the USA.
24 hours
If you should arrive in London, at Heathrow, at some strange hour, and have a hire car, the Watford Tesco is open 24 hours. (I can't help humming the American hit, "I was only 24 hours from Tulsa ..." My parody is 'I was only 24 hours in Tesco'!)
Also look out for the superstore supermarkets on the outskirts of Windsor. Tesco and Sainsbury's are both giants. From the outside, passing in a car or bus, you see two levels of shopping plus the eating places inside.
But even the little Tesco express has a click and collect service. We are living in a dream world.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, photographer, author, speaker.
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