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Waitrose only major supermarket with majority Tory customers, polls show

www.theguardian.com Waitrose only major supermarket with majority Tory customers, polls show

Shoppers at Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Lidl and Aldi have all swung to Labour from Conservative since 2019

Waitrose only major supermarket with majority Tory customers, polls show

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it's kind of ironic, Tories shopping at a store run on market socialist grounds: worker co-op.
- Waitrose is a worker co-op? Like, a proper one?
  
  In a way - it's part of the John Lewis group, in which all the staff are technically 'Partners' and the group is run in their behalf by a trust.
  
  I don't really know how it works, but there's info on it here (which I'll say now, I haven't read!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_Partnership?wprov=sfla1
This might have more to do with where they built their shops & the target £ bracket for their goods than anything sinister as the headline suggests.
- "Waitrose customers found to be older and richer than average"
  
  Yep, in other news, water is wet and the sky is blue....
  
  Research shows water now wet.
  
  I get the old adage: the older you get the more right you are. But, the richer?
I don't believe it!

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