The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[Serial_Apologist]

it would certainly be embarrassing to be told one had been seen in Tesco's.

Not the Brixton branch!

[french frank]

Excuse my pedantry ff but it was Sainsbury's not Tesco!

http://www.nickjordan.co.uk/2010/12/...ket-hierarchy/

That's the internet for you. I remembered the Coren and riffraff and the first hit said Tescos. I can see now that there are two versions of the story, pretty much alternating :-)

Works either way, in my view. Waitrose and Coop are the only permissible ones (actually, I prefer the Sainsbury's version: Tesco shoppers already know their place )

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

That's the internet for you. I remembered the Coren and riffraff and the first hit said Tescos. I can see now that there are two versions of the story, pretty much alternating :-)

Works either way, in my view. Waitrose and Coop are the only permissible ones (actually, I prefer the Sainsbury's version: Tesco shoppers already know their place )

My rank order would be as follows:
Waitrose - no piped music
Booth's - no piped music
Sainsbury’s - no piped music (except in Stoke-on-Trent)
Tesco - no piped music (except at Christmas)
Iceland - no piped music as far as I am aware
Aldi - no piped music

Co-op - piped music made even worse by cheap speakers.
Asda - piped music
Morrisons - dreadful and often loud piped music and no apostrophe. The pits.

Lidl I don't know and I've never heard of Budgen

[Nick Armstrong]

Co-op - piped music made even worse by cheap speakers.

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Morrisons - dreadful and often loud piped music and no apostrophe. The pits.

Oh thank you Alpie for the best chuckle all day. So true, so true!!

I've never heard of Budgen

I think they've disappeared. They were always tatty and had a distinctly down-at-heel feel.

The large one that until 2008 was near me was however snapped up by Waitrose, whose recession strategy I've found fascinating: around me, they have also opened two other 'outlets' in formerly cheap and cheerful premises, one in the big ex-Woolworths at the Marble Arch end of Edgware Road, and the other the shop at my local petrol station.

So from no Waitroses 10 years ago, I now have 3 within walking or 5-minutes' pedalling distance, including the garage one (the nearest) which is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week... handily enough

[vinteuil]

Morrisons - dreadful and often loud piped music and no apostrophe. The pits.

... while I share the wish to avoid piped music, I think you shd be more tolerant of apostrophes present or absent. I have been very happy using Lloyds Bank for the last fifty years, and when I need medicaments I find Boots The Chemists usually very satisfactory. And when necessary I use whichever is the more convenient underground station - Earl's Court or Barons Court.

If I'm touchy on this subject it may be because I was WRONGLY deducted a point in an English essay when I was twelve, having had to write about where we lived, - and in my brilliant text I mentioned "Paultons Square" - the English master then proceeded to "correct" by inserting an INCORRECT apostrophe. I've never really recovered...

[mercia]

Budgen(')s still exists - 180 stores apparently http://www.budgens.co.uk/

[Anna]

Budgens still exist. There is quite a large one just as you exit Brighton Station and several dotted around Sussex and the West Country - very often attached to large petrol stations.

Our Somerfield was taken over by Co-Op, when it opened complete with piped music there were so many complaints (and threats to shop elsewhere) that the music stopped completely. It's now totally silent except for Carols over Christmas.

Edit: Oops, crossposted with mercs!

[Nick Armstrong]

... while I share the wish to avoid piped music, I think you shd be more tolerant of apostrophes present or absent. I have been very happy using Lloyds Bank for the last fifty years, and when I need medicaments I find Boots The Chemists usually very satisfactory. And when necessary I use whichever is the more convenient underground station - Earl's Court or Barons Court.

If I'm touchy on this subject it may be because I was WRONGLY deducted a point in an English essay when I was twelve, having had to write about where we lived, - and in my brilliant text I mentioned "Paultons Square" - the English master then proceeded to "correct" by inserting an INCORRECT apostrophe. I've never really recovered...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

... while I share the wish to avoid piped music, I think you shd be more tolerant of apostrophes present or absent. I have been very happy using Lloyds Bank for the last fifty years, and when I need medicaments I find Boots The Chemists usually very satisfactory. And when necessary I use whichever is the more convenient underground station - Earl's Court or Barons Court.

If I'm touchy on this subject it may be because I was WRONGLY deducted a point in an English essay when I was twelve, having had to write about where we lived, - and in my brilliant text I mentioned "Paultons Square" - the English master then proceeded to "correct" by inserting an INCORRECT apostrophe. I've never really recovered...

But the question is, was that the fault of the Local Council for failing to put the apostrophe on the road sign. They went that way in Birmingham and Devon. When I lived in Chesterfield, there was a very short road with three names on different signs:
Dixons Road, Dixon Road and Dixon's Road. (All that was missing was Dixons' Road.) Not far away was a public wieghbridge (sic).

[vinteuil]

... some good background on the oddities of our use of apostrophes -

http://peterviney.wordpress.com/about/elt-articles/apostrophes/

[vinteuil]

But the question is, was that the fault of the Local Council for failing to put the apostrophe on the road sign. ).

... no fault as far as "Paultons Square" is concerned. It was named after the country seat of Sir Hans Sloane's nephew - Paultons, in Hampshire.

[teamsaint]

... no fault as far as "Paultons Square" is concerned. It was named after the country seat of Sir Hans Sloane's nephew - Paultons, in Hampshire.

I think you will find that Paulton's Square is the middle of the cricket pitch at Paulton's cricket ground in Hampshire, a rather lovely ground on which I have plied my tricky medium pacers more than once.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

... no fault as far as "Paultons Square" is concerned. It was named after the country seat of Sir Hans Sloane's nephew - Paultons, in Hampshire.

Ah, I see. It does become more fussy when plurals are involved; hence Queen's College Oxford and Queens' College Cambridge.

How did we get on to this?

[vinteuil]

... . It was named after the country seat of Sir Hans Sloane's nephew - Paultons, in Hampshire.

How are the mighty fallen! I see it is now the seat of Peppa Pig World...

https://paultonspark.co.uk/

[amateur51]

I think you will find that Paulton's Square is the middle of the cricket pitch at Paulton's cricket ground in Hampshire, a rather lovely ground on which I have plied my tricky medium pacers more than once.

No trickier medium-pacers than those of the long-gone Hampshire favourite Derek Shackleton ("military -medium" as John Arlott used to describe them), one of my boyhood heroes, alongside the magnificent Roy Marshall and later Barry Richards.