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  1. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Hoity toity buggers. How dare they. Anyone would think their **** doesnt stink.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ignation-branch-Aldi-opens-near-Waitrose.html
    'We're taking a step back into the lower class': Residents of a posh Cheshire town share their indignation after a branch of Aldi opens near to their Waitrose
    • Poynton, close to Manchester, is one of the Cheshire's wealthiest areas
    • One critic sad he was 'insulted' by the store and asked: 'What kind of people will this attract to the area?'
    • Aldi opened store three weeks ago and locals queued round block to enter
    • Another critic called them 'mindless morons together with sad nutters'
    A new Aldi in an exclusive Cheshire town has caused some disquiet, with one local critic claiming the discounter's store is a 'step back into the lower class'.

    The row in upmarket Poynton, in Cheshire, is centred on the recent opening of the German discounter chain's store near the town's Waitrose.

    The expensive town close to Stockport, Greater Manchester, only has a population of 14,000 and is popular with millionaire footballers, wealthy landlords and Manchester business leaders.

    Residents queued around when the supermarket opened three weeks ago, but one critic said: 'With this new Aldi I ask you, what kind of people will this attract to the area?'
    Posting on a local web forum, the user, PoyntonMan62, said he was 'insulted' by the opening of the budget chain claiming it was a 'step back into the lower class'.

    'I thought we were making real progress as a community with the opening of Waitrose in 2012.

    POYNTON MAN'S MESSAGE FOR THE ALDI FANS IN HIS HOME TOWN
    Hello fellow Poyntonians I, for one, am insulted at the opening of the new Aldi store in poynton. I thought we were making real progress as a community with the opening of Waitrose in 2012.

    However with the opening of Aldi I feel as though we are taking a step back into the lower class.

    Soon we will be associated with places such as Hazel Grove and other urban areas closer to Manchester.

    The use of aesthetically displeasing wooden pallets is disgusting and unhygienic, I worry for the passer bys.

    With this new Aldi I ask you, what kind of people will this attract to the area? Are we not sick of young vandals harassing the town?

    'However with the opening of Aldi I feel as though we are taking a step back into the lower class.

    'Are we not sick of young vandals harassing the town?'

    He even snubbed the store's wooden pallets branding them 'disgusting' and 'unhygienic'.

    The post was made to the Poynton, Bramhall, Hazel Grove Forum back in January and sparked hundreds of comments between residents.


    Another critic, in a clear nod to upmarket favourite Waitrose, said: 'We have no particular wish to visit Aldi, we are quite happy with our present supermarket's and my free coffee!'



    But Aldi, Britain's fastest growing supermarket, believes there is a place for them in the town and people queued round the block.

    Although the store has not been universally popular, with another critic calling fans 'mindless morons all lined up down the side of Aldi, and behind it, together with sad nutters'.


    The post was made to the Poynton, Bramhall, Hazel Grove Forum and sparked hundreds of comments between residents, many of them positive.

    The Aldi was officially opened on February 18 by British cyclist Jason Kenny who claimed Olympic gold medals at the Beijing and London games.

    Aldi is a leading global discount supermarket chain with almost 10,000 stores in 18 countries, and an estimated turnover of more than Euro 50bn.

    As well as offering customers cheap deals on groceries, the Poynton store has directly helped the local economy by creating over 30 new jobs within the community.

    Today Aldi hit back at the comments saying they were made to feel very welcome in the town.

    An Aldi spokesman said: 'Since the Poynton store opened three weeks ago it has quickly become a firm favourite with the local community.

    'More than 150 people queued outside the store before it opened on its first day and we've welcomed thousands more shoppers since then.

    'These shoppers are part of the over 900,000 new customers that have switched to Aldi during the last 12 months, attracted by our unique combination of award-winning products and the lowest grocery prices in the UK.'
     
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  2. Happy Tiger

    Happy Tiger Well-Known Member

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    We should organise a weekend up there to show a proper lower class.

    We can stay at Sir Bens. I bet his missus ain't as bad as he makes out.
     
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  3. Tuckin

    Tuckin Well-Known Member

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    I reckon Ben is responsible for several of those quotes.
     
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  4. HCAFC (Airlie Tiger)

    HCAFC (Airlie Tiger) Well-Known Member

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    If the Daily Mail are writing articles on what idiotic things people say on internet forums they should have a read of our board, they'd have a field day.

    Seriously though, how did journalism become simply checking social media and making a story out of it? If you can use a search engine and are able to copy/paste you can be a journalist these days.
     
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  5. Happy Tiger

    Happy Tiger Well-Known Member

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    Nah, he's the local "character", or, his missus's bit of rough.
     
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  6. The Omega Man

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    Down here the fine people of Lymington protested against Argos and Weatherspoons. **** all they could do about the 99p shop though and Weatherspoons did open and you can't get a seat in there for the blue rinse brigade.

    Here is a nice little story about one of my family members.

    An avid bingo player, she featured in the HDM as someone who organised a protest against Gala Bingo opening and even appeared in court opposing the license. Her next appearance in the HDM was her in a photograph of the first people through the doors of the new Gala Bingo on opening night!
     
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  7. Ernie Shackleton

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    And this in a nutshell is the malaise of the twenty-first century.


    There is no place in modern society for the wooden pallet. This is why the Roman Empire crumbled, why Genghis Khan backtracked, why Alexander of Macedonia cried real salt tears.

    Why Pele was lost in a storm at sea, why the Queen is Dead, why Adolf Hitler will be regrown from a single sample of DNA.

    It's the reason why trains don't run on time, why Ant and Dec are considered talented, why coastal erosion happens, why only fools rush in.


    We're all going to Hell in a handcart.

    I'm not allowed to say how many planes joined the raid, but I counted them all out, and I counted them all back.


    Pallets indeed.

    I'm going for a lie down.
     
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  8. Sir Cheshire Ben

    Sir Cheshire Ben Well-Known Member

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    Just got back from Waitrose, what's happening?




    Poynton - It's hardly Alderley Edge or Prestbury, It's not even on par with Marple Bridge. I wouldn't choose to live there & despite being knighted, I'm a proper scummer.

    Hazel Grove - Did a pub crawl there a couple of years ago, was told to avoid a couple of pubs as I may run the risk of getting murdered.

    Bramhall - Council estate with a few posh houses around it.

    Basically, they're a bunch of council-housers who have developed unhealthy egos because exorbitant house prices in neighbouring & more affulent areas have driven up the price of their own hovels. There's nowt worse for egos than ****s who had nowt coming into summat easily.

    There used to be a Kwik Save in Alderley Edge FFS.
     
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  9. Sir Cheshire Ben

    Sir Cheshire Ben Well-Known Member

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    Not wanting to stray off subject but could a mod correct the thread title to "The Cheshire Set" I'm sure it was just a simple & ignorant mistake by the OP. We're not a "lot" that's the lower classes.
     
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  10. Altrincham Tiger

    Altrincham Tiger Well-Known Member

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    Oddly enough I've just got back from Waitrose too. It's only 2 minutes away.

    Allegedly there is an Aldi somewhere in Alty but I don't believe it!
     
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  11. DMD

    DMD Eh? Forum Moderator

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    How about that for a compromise?
     
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  12. BOJACKHCAFCMAN

    BOJACKHCAFCMAN Well-Known Member

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    The same thing happens in Beverley, the councillors there veto Mcdonalds because it's too downmarket and the arches are 'tacky'.
     
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  13. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    I liked Kwik Save. The brekkie in the caff was a quid wasnt it?
     
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  14. Sir Cheshire Ben

    Sir Cheshire Ben Well-Known Member

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    ****ed if I know it was for the lower classes.
     
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  15. The greengrocer

    The greengrocer Well-Known Member

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    Anyone who uses a supermarket for their meat & veg should take a good look at themselves! Use your local shops for as much as you can! Get to know your butcher and he'll always look after you! Aldi & lidl will ruin the country! Cheap products will only close shops around where you live & in time lower your house prices! UTT
     
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  16. Happy Tiger

    Happy Tiger Well-Known Member

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    I agree with the sentiment but where we currently live, its hard work and a ****e load more expensive to do that.

    Hopefully that'll change if we ever ****ing move, ****ing solicitor cockwomble bastards.
     
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  17. The Omega Man

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    We don't have a butcher, fishmonger or greengrocer in the town where I live. The clever bastard councillors voted to allow Asda to build right in the centre 33 years ago and that spelt the death knell.

    We do have an organic farm type shop, about a mile away, but to be honest, I hate the place. I have been a couple of times and it is so up itself I can't stand it.

    Hull has always been a great place to shop for fresh food, but I can never work out how my missus came out of a greengrocers on NHE with six oranges instead of the bunch of bananas that she had asked for!
     
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  18. Altrincham Tiger

    Altrincham Tiger Well-Known Member

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    Unfortunately Altrincham is a bit lacklustre when it comes to indy shops, (every bloody supermarket-chain known to man though) although the market can throw up a surprise now and then. I grow my own veg whenever possible though. Grew so many tomatoes last year that I didn't need to buy any between August and December. Still had a load left over to make into Green Tomato Chutney too. And a load of chillies. Just got this year's batch started too. Going for record-heat Carolina Reaper chilli plants this time around - one up on the Trinidad Scorpions of last year, (although I have successfully over-wintered some of last year's plants).

    Not sure I'll ever be butchering my own chickens and cows though!
     
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  19. DMD

    DMD Eh? Forum Moderator

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    I agree to an extent, but it falls over when the local shops aren't selling local produce from local providers.
     
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  20. tigerscanada

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    Bring back pack-horses, carrier pigeons & slow trains I say.
     
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