Sainsbury's boss: We'll win over Waitrose customers (From Bucks Free Press)
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Sainsbury's boss: We'll win over Waitrose customers
2:30pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010 in
STUBBORNLY loyal Waitrose customers in Marlow can be won over despite their frosty attitude to the store that will replace it, a Sainsbury's boss believes.
Jamie Cowen, head of property for Sainsbury's in the south of the UK, told the Free Press it was 'inevitable' that townsfolk would have an affinity with the old West Street shop.
Waitrose has been in the town for 37 years.
Customers said on Friday they would continue to shop at Waitrose - either at the new Chapel House store or outside Marlow - rather than go to Sainsbury's (See related articles below).
However, he believes shoppers will come around when the new store opens.
He said: “We will try to win them over in the same way that we do in every town, through what we offer, our products and values.
“Some of these customers will be won over, some won't, it's no different to Marlow than anywhere else.
“It's always more difficult when people who are particularly allied to a particular location. “Inevitably there will be some people who are brand loyal.”
Mr Cowen added: “The first thing I would say to the sceptics is come and try it.”
He said the company hopes the size of the store will be a major factor in attracting customers.
The development will make the store larger than the current Waitrose.
“In terms of its density of trade we expect it to be enormously successful,” he said.
“Clearly it's an affluent town with a large propensity to spend.”
He said, although legal agreements have to be finalised, gaining approval was “fantastic” and “means an enormous amount to us”.
“We have waited for sometime to get more representation in the town and bring a better offer for the customers,” he said.
“It will mean an awful lot that we can bring a greater range to the people of Marlow.”
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ferrellcat
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3:05pm Wed 3 Feb 10
BigTommy
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3:27pm Wed 3 Feb 10
demoness
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8:06pm Wed 3 Feb 10
Is this news?
I think not. :))
tom.marlow
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10:21pm Wed 3 Feb 10
demoness
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10:29pm Wed 3 Feb 10
tom.marlow wrote:We have a Budgens
You got any supermarkets in Wendover then D? We've got 2 :-)
We like our Budgens. It sells a lot of local produce.
There is also a Tesco Express but we tend to pretend that isn't there.:)))
tom.marlow
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10:52pm Wed 3 Feb 10
demoness
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12:11am Thu 4 Feb 10
tom.marlow wrote:SHHHHHH!!!!!!
Don't you go there for late night lager and crisp shopping?
I am heavily in disguise as a biker...then no one knows.
J B Blackett
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12:11am Thu 4 Feb 10
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And that was only on a relatively quiet Tuesday afternoon.
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Ah the good olde days. When and why did Wendover become such an apparent tranquil bourgeois ghetto for shoppers ? This country is going to the dogs
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demoness
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12:29am Thu 4 Feb 10
J B Blackett wrote:JB - with all due respect, you are talking bol locks...
The Wendover I used to know had High Street gutters that replete with blood, vomit and several other unmentionable substances, which flowed all the way past Budgens and The Red Lion and ended up a stinking morass swilling about in the vicinity of the Clock Tower. . And that was only on a relatively quiet Tuesday afternoon. . Ah the good olde days. When and why did Wendover become such an apparent tranquil bourgeois ghetto for shoppers ? This country is going to the dogs . Regards
I have spoken to all sorts of people who when I say I live in Wendover, to a person, say "what a lovely place to live" and other similar things.It has always been that way and probably always will be.
Leave my adpotive town alone or else I will really write what I think about the hell hole that is Wycombe. :))
Actually stuff it - the best thing about Wycombe is Eden and the theatre - the rest of it is a dump and there is no way I will ever return to live there.
It is a quiet little market town and I absolutely take offfence at being called bourgeois.
Oh and at least our bins get emptied and the potholes aren't quite so bad. :)))
J B Blackett
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1:13am Thu 4 Feb 10
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And David Jason amongst other celebs who allegedly left because of the alleged 'night-life'
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And don't forget the fertility rites plus all the human and animal sacrifices still carried out on Coombe Hill on various selected lunar and stellar coincidences.
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It's all recorded in the book 'The Clandestine Annalies and Ritual Histories of the Ancient Burgh of Whenduver (sic)' held in Aylesbury Central Library. Check it out
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PS There's nothing wrong with being 'bourgeois'. It all started with Voltaire who used the word perjoratively.
demoness
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6:14am Thu 4 Feb 10
And I could do with a good fertility rite as well...
tom.marlow
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9:09am Thu 4 Feb 10
demoness wrote:But you need more supermarkets. No self-respecting market town should have less than 2 full size ones. Your Budgens and your Tesco Express just don't hack it.
J B Blackett wrote: The Wendover I used to know had High Street gutters that replete with blood, vomit and several other unmentionable substances, which flowed all the way past Budgens and The Red Lion and ended up a stinking morass swilling about in the vicinity of the Clock Tower. . And that was only on a relatively quiet Tuesday afternoon. . Ah the good olde days. When and why did Wendover become such an apparent tranquil bourgeois ghetto for shoppers ? This country is going to the dogs . RegardsJB - with all due respect, you are talking bol locks... I have spoken to all sorts of people who when I say I live in Wendover, to a person, say "what a lovely place to live" and other similar things.It has always been that way and probably always will be. Leave my adpotive town alone or else I will really write what I think about the hell hole that is Wycombe. :)) Actually stuff it - the best thing about Wycombe is Eden and the theatre - the rest of it is a dump and there is no way I will ever return to live there. It is a quiet little market town and I absolutely take offfence at being called bourgeois. Oh and at least our bins get emptied and the potholes aren't quite so bad. :)))
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Look at Beaconsfield; Waitrose, proper Sainsburys, none of your Sainsburys Local rubbish. Look at Henley, Waitrose, proper Tesco, noe of your Tesco Express.
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Now we in Marlow will be just like them - as we have have aspired to be for all these years. All we need now are the car-parks.
J B Blackett
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12:12pm Thu 4 Feb 10
demoness wrote:Well, you could always initiate your own special Wendover rites and invite your friends round, riotous or righteous.
Well I wish there was an over abundance of righteous young airmen on my doorstep now.. ;)
And I could do with a good fertility rite as well...
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If the latter it may be necessary to involve some Druids - like the Archbishop of Canterbury say and his monkish mate - you may know them as the Righteous Brothers.
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The gentle folk of Wendover (who I have had dealings with) would appreciate that sort of social event. Put a promotional notice in the window of the High St charity shop.
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ferrellcat
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12:36pm Thu 4 Feb 10
demoness wrote:Hmm,well Demoness airmen on the doorstep is one thing, but I trust that the good fertility rite would be a little more private,after all we wouldnt want twitching curtains leading to a burning in wendover would we. Quite so
Well I wish there was an over abundance of righteous young airmen on my doorstep now.. ;) And I could do with a good fertility rite as well...
tom.marlow
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12:43pm Thu 4 Feb 10
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We can buy some Ginsters pasties and a couple of cans of special brew in the Tesco Express
Lorrainei
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1:44pm Thu 4 Feb 10
stubbs7
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4:48pm Thu 4 Feb 10
how strange
demoness
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10:20pm Thu 4 Feb 10
J B Blackett wrote:I am having an Anne Summers party soon... will that count?? ;)))
demoness wrote: Well I wish there was an over abundance of righteous young airmen on my doorstep now.. ;) And I could do with a good fertility rite as well...Well, you could always initiate your own special Wendover rites and invite your friends round, riotous or righteous. . If the latter it may be necessary to involve some Druids - like the Archbishop of Canterbury say and his monkish mate - you may know them as the Righteous Brothers. . The gentle folk of Wendover (who I have had dealings with) would appreciate that sort of social event. Put a promotional notice in the window of the High St charity shop. . Regards . Regards
demoness
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10:22pm Thu 4 Feb 10
tom.marlow wrote:Will you wear a flack jacket as well??
What about some sleuthing up Coombe Hill. I'll put my flying helmet on instead of a balaclava. Will that do? . We can buy some Ginsters pasties and a couple of cans of special brew in the Tesco Express
If that is so, then I will definitely provide the cocoa...
plus chocolate biscuits.
tom.marlow
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11:15pm Thu 4 Feb 10
stubbs7 wrote:Who's moaning? That was on the other thread. Pay attention. This thread is just taking the pis s
people of marlow moaning again. how strange
J B Blackett
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1:14am Fri 5 Feb 10
tom.marlow wrote:Yes , the Marlow folk are well-know for their propensity for mooning.
stubbs7 wrote:Who's moaning? That was on the other thread. Pay attention. This thread is just taking the pis s
people of marlow moaning again. how strange
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It's a riparian thing, I think, brought on by the damp atmosphere, loose bowels and a disdain of people in boats (in particular noisy and inconsiderate people from Maidenhead).
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Little Lisa
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10:33am Fri 5 Feb 10
J B Blackett
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1:12pm Fri 5 Feb 10
J B Blackett wrote:AND the wearing of 'trendy' but ill-fitting inappropriate very low-slung clothing bought at great expense at the numerous clothes shops that over-occupy the High St.
tom.marlow wrote:Yes , the Marlow folk are well-know for their propensity for mooning.
stubbs7 wrote:Who's moaning? That was on the other thread. Pay attention. This thread is just taking the pis s
people of marlow moaning again. how strange
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It's a riparian thing, I think, brought on by the damp atmosphere, loose bowels and a disdain of people in boats (in particular noisy and inconsiderate people from Maidenhead).
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The charity ('no dogs allowed') shops don't count as clothes shops, do they ?
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miccles says...
2:36pm Wed 3 Feb 10
Check them out on CCTV, then send to "you've been framed".