Waitrose Reviews

2.7 Rating 618 Reviews
37 %
of reviewers recommend Waitrose
2.7
Based on 618 reviews
Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods
Own Driver, Courier
Average Delivery Time
Within 5 Days
On-time Delivery
Greater than 82%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders
Greater than 82%
Customer Service
Communication Channels
Live Chat, Telephone, Email
Queries Resolved In
Under An Hour
Customer Service
2 out of 5
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At Waitrose.com, you’ll find all the quality and value you’d expect, together with the kind of service only Waitrose can offer. Your order will be picked, packed and delivered from your Waitrose branch by our Waitrose Partners – people who own a share of the business, and will always take as much care with your shopping as you would yourself. With a wide range of products and brands it makes it the perfect place to grocery shop

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1344 42 4680

Email:

customersupport@waitrose.co.uk

Location:

Waitrose Customer Sales and Support teamWaitrose LimitedDoncastle RoadBracknell
Berkshire
RG12 8YA

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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
Purchased a festive ham £25.00. Very disappointed. More like reconstituted ham, completely flavorless. Also bought cheese biscuits which were stale and soft, but had a best before date of August 2024!! Absolutely awful.
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Posted 3 months ago
Collected and paid £30= for a turkey crown on 23rd December, cooked as instructions on 25th, what a disappointment. The meat was tough and lacking in taste. A family Christmas meal spoilt for us. No good all the TV advertisments when the products do not meet even a reasonable standard. Very poor.
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Posted 4 months ago
Waitrose Chicken Chow Mein ready meal. Chicken content consusted of a few lumps of fat. Horrible. Cost over £5. Disappointing as I've had better quality from Waitrose in the past.
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Posted 7 months ago
Don't bother with their Bakewell tart - its mostly just pastry and poor quality Bakewell with hardly any taste at all
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Posted 7 months ago
Spinach and ricotta ready meal was terrible . Sauce tasted powdery. Will not buy again
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Posted 9 months ago
TEMPORAMENTAL 'Quick Check' Handsets!! On Several Occasions, seemingly every other time I shop in Waitrose, the 'Quick Check' Handset I have been given decides to 'throw a wobbly'. Sometimes, as I am logging my shopping, the 'Quick Check' Handset decides not to recognise the item, at other times the handset doesn't recognise the advertised in store discount, on one occasion, half way through my shopping, the handset died and had to be replaced (fortunately my shopping was logged onto the replacement handset), I often have to ensure that shopping is logged even when the handset makes noises to the effect that it has recorded my shopping only to discover that the temperamental device has not recorded the item and I have to re-input it. On one occasion I logged an item into the 'Quick Check' Handset only for the 'Quick Set' handset to reject it, I then re-logged the item on the handset which it accepted, I checked the basket to make sure! When I proceeded to the self-checkout, the self-checkout did not recognise the shopping in my handset, an assistant was called and after some time she managed to get the self-checkout to recognise my shopping, not for the first time, except for the one item which had been previously rejected by the 'Quick Check' handset and which I had made sure was listed in the basket of goods when I re-logged the item! The assistant was very helpful and apologetic, I surmise this may be a regular occurrence! Either Waitrose 'Quick Check' handsets are not fit for purpose or one/some Waitrose staff are playing 'silly buggers' or both! Either way I object to being overly surveiled and patronised when you offer temperamental 'Quick Check' handsets as a 'convenient' option. The 'Quick Check' handsets and the decline in customer service from more senior staff are a 'rapid check' to SHOP ELSEWHERE!
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Posted 1 year ago
Why is Waitrose fruit so bad , it has the worst , but most expensive fruit of any of the larger supermarkets. I am fed up buying a pack of fruit , only to throw it in the bin . So I don’t buy fruit there .
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Posted 1 year ago
Okehampton branch is really going downhill. Long queues as checkouts, dusty floors/shelves. Last week the handbaskets were stacked in the middle of the doorway causing a tripping hazard. New voucher scheme only works for those with the app or a printer - discriminates against the elderly. It also causes huge delays at the tills whilst people are fiddling around with their phones trying to load the app and locate the vouchers. This weeks 'special deals I might like' contains items I've never bought so how are these items selected? What happened to customer care? Why stop the free coffee and newspaper for loyal shoppers? Having a loyalty card now gives you nothing.
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Posted 1 year ago
The Levantine Slow Cooked Chicken tasted ok, but Minute portion. How Waitrose think one small piece of thigh is enough per person as part of a main meal baffles me! Just lucky much more food was cooked that evening with expectations of freezing but it was eaten to fill the gap!!!
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Posted 1 year ago
DONT BUY THEIR FISH! ! MOST DISGRACEFUL FISH IVE EVER BEEN SERVED AND I TRAVEL AND COOK FISH IN MANY COUNTRIES Waitrise in Fulham Rushed into this store which I have always found pleasant staff eager to help and good layout of items and ok fruit and vegetables Needed some fish .Admittedly it was after6 PM and the fishmongers down the road had CLOSED. I ASKED THE ASSISTANT AT THE FISH ZONE FOR 6 FARMED BASS FILLETS I AND I THOUGHT ID TRY 2 MACKERAL FILLETS THAT WERE WILD CAUGHT FROM SCOTLAND OPENED THEM AT GOME AND MY MAN HAD MIXED THE ORDER SO I GOT 6 MACKERALS THEY SMELT PRETTY POOR WHEN I OPENED AT MY FULHAM HOME ,BUT ON COOKING AND TASTING THE MACKERAL WAS ROTTEN I AM SO DISMAYED THAT A CHAIN THIS LARGE TAKES ON A FISH SUPPLY AND HAS NO QUALITY CONTROL OF THERE FRESH PRODUCT DONT TOUCH THEIR FISH !!! THE BASS WAS NEARING ITS END OF LIFE BUT THANKFULLY EDIBLE DESTROYED MY DINNER EVENING WITH FREINDS
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Posted 1 year ago
This new app is simply too complex. The free newspaper and coffee was liked and simple to use. Trying to operate this new app for a few pennies off is simply not worth the effort. Tesco, Sainsbury and M&S so simple and easy to use. Goodbye Waitrose!
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Posted 2 years ago
We are frequent Waitrose customers and often buy an organic half leg of lamb from Waitrose for Sunday lunch, although recently, they have been rather small. This week we purchased a 0.694k organic half leg of lamb for Sunday lunch. There were only two of these in the store and both (again) of a rather small size for a family Sunday lunch. However, as this was all that was to be had, we purchased the above 0.694k. Infuriatingly, when we unwrapped it to cook it, we found an enormous bone taking up a fair bit of the weight (this is not the first time this has happened with a Waitrose organic half leg of lamb). Consequently, it was even less adequate to feed a family and we had to make a dash to Sainsbury to buy one of a decent size! Out of interest, I weighed the bone (raw) and it came in at 210g - making up almost a THIRD of the total weight of 0.694. As the miniscule joint cost £11.10 I think this is appalling value. Disappointed.
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Posted 2 years ago
I agree what a shambles at the tills for us customers and also the staff who are trying to work this unwieldy app voucher scheme. I spent 22 minutes trying to log onto the O2 service at my local Waitrose, while facing a poster highlighting the importance of the customer satisfaction to Waitrose-ha, ha. I then gave up, as shopping should be a pleasant experience and this definitely was NOT-it deserves a zero minus. I also feel that the scheme now discriminates against all those without smart phone. I was a regular customer but will be transferring my weekly shop to M and S especially now the free paper offer has also met an untimely demise.
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Posted 2 years ago
I want to start a survey on what peoples thoughts and first impressions are about this Aberdeen Angus Minced Meat. £9-99 Kilo, but at the time of photo was on offer for £6-99 Kilo. 1) Does it look like Best Aberdeen Angus Minced Beef? 2) Would it give you confidence that your meal would be tasty? 3) Would you buy it? 4) If you were the Store Manager, would you have displayed it? 5) or am I being fussy on the quality of the Aberdeen Angus Minced Beef. And expecting too much for my money? The Store Manager believes all the above would be answered with a YES from the customers. I would appreciate your views so I can pass these on to the Store Manager and Head office. I’m a great believer in ‘ If we don’t complain, businesses will continue to lower their standards’ They become too complacent in their success.
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Posted 2 years ago
Waitrose in Bagshot the standard of the shop relating to filling shelf no vegetables out of date products or within a day . Was excellent shop !standard now declined . overpriced products out of date. This week decided to by Victoria !!Sandwich for tea . Took out out box hardly any filling jam or buttercream. Refilled with Jam and cream. Don’t buy.! Go to a well know store food always good
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Posted 2 years ago
Waitrose Fee Range Pork Sausages £3.50 for 6, never had such tough skins on a sausage they were inedible. All that rubbish they spout about being farm to the field, they tasted awfull
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Posted 2 years ago
Such a shame that complimentary newspaper no longer included in home delivery before 15:00. Store staff disagree with change too.
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Posted 3 years ago
This morning I felt very unsafe. No effective flow control. Veg & fruit packed out with oldies (as am I) disregarding safe distancing. I normally enjoy shopping here. But not today. Relieved to get out.
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Posted 3 years ago
Being one of the people who are self isolating and reliant on home deliveries my wife and I shop around for available slots. Our last one was Waitrose and generally good as they go but I must say the driver was exceptionally good. To achieve variety we pick from the limited stock offered and whilst "customer service is effectively non-existant and websites to complain do not seem to work there is one product that we both think is so bad as to defy description. That is The Coconut Collaborative Banoffee Little Pots. Little is an understatement, miniscule four teaspoons full would be more accurate. No refined sugars seems to mean that they are unrefined. Now the taste that is the biggest challenge to describe. It is reminiscent of school chemistry lessons and a more artificially tasting compound I feel would be hard to find . I am thankful that they are small, less to throw away. If you value your taste buds avoid at all costs. great shame I cannot find a route on line that works to make Waitrose collect them and dispose of them safely.
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Posted 3 years ago
I bought a whole salmon. When i asked for itr to be cut into steaks the assistant assumed i wanted one.And said she couldnt, when said no ineed a whole salmon she said .it will take at least 20mins. but she failed to weigh it and tell me how much it would be.. I was so upset because i was dressed in muddy clothes (dog Handling) and Her first response was uncomfortable for me. so i left her to prepare the salmon. When i bought the salmon I was shocked at the price, it was 3 times the price of Sainsburys last 4 salmons i have bought. I took it to the cashout and paid for it . But will not buy salmon from Waitrose again.
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Posted 3 years ago
Waitrose is rated 2.7 based on 618 reviews