Woody's
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Thanks for the tip off.
I somehow manage to spend about £100 a month in Pound Land, Dalston Kingsland!
Lemsip, Revlone nair polish, plant bulbs, yog DVD, organic baby food, you name it. I don't even have a baby. -
cheers tbp!
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There has been a Tesco Metro near my workplace for about 4 years. It has always been terrible - very long queues (winding around the tiny floorspace of the shop, making it hard to reach the sandwiches etc), promotional offers not being put through at the till requiring you go back and claim them, always freezing cold from the over-chilled banks of fridges.
About six weeks ago, a new Waitrose opened directly opposite the Tesco. Now the Tesco is always half-empty even at lunchtime. They had to rearrange their layout, they installed extra tills, but they have still lost loads of customers.
The Waitrose is fantastic and a completely different experience - and depending on what you buy, it's much better value.
I don't think a tiny Sainsbury's in SGR will have the same effect on Tesco. That type of Sainsbury's has a rubbish selection of stock, it costs more than at their main shops (because of the limited pack options etc), there will be the same long queues as at Tesco. I'm not particularly fond of Woody's but I wouldn't use a lacklustre, mediocre and depressing Sainsbury's. I would rather continue enduring the queues at Tesco because of the better choice of stuff to buy. -
Seen this morning @ 175-179 SGR...
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I'm very happy to get a Sainsbury's. Will still have a much better selection than Woody's. There's a limit to how much baklava and olives a man really needs.
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I've just googled 175-179 Stroud Green Road, the first entry is a map of SGR with an arrow pointing to Woody's, with a link to Woody's Express. But the link takes you a Scottish haulage company. Don't think I've noticed Google get it wrong before.
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'Provision of late night refreshment between 0000 and 0500'
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I think - in the same way that a licence is required to sell booze - a licence is required to sell certain (hot?) foods between the hours of 2300 - 0500hrs.
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Mini sainsbury's only ever sells the most limited selection of over-priced pre-packed fruit and veg. Rubbish.
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@ Tallboy, where will you get your Baklava and olives within Stroud Green from now on (green lanes daytrips apart)?
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@ Staplejack, I don't really care for either of them. I won't be getting any more.
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sigh
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Woo Hoo!
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'Provision of late night refreshment between 0000 and 0500'
Eh? A 24h or late night mini Sainsbury's? In case we get desperate for a hot pasty at 3.30am?
The Fruit Basket next to the only-in-name florist sells decent Kalamata, no baklava 'tho. Plus their bunches of herbs are never as fresh and big as in Woody's. -
There's a shop which is very much like Woody's but actually much better on Seven Sisters road. Popped in there on my way past last night to buy a packet of cigs and ended up spending quite a while in there. Got some lovely bread and olives and some nice honey. All cheaper and better than Woody's. Can't remember the name and exact location but it's on a corner, possibly near the Durham Rd bus stop. It looks like a smallish corner shop from the outside but goes all the way back into the building behind the shopfront. It seemed very clean and the staff were all smiling and really friendly.
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@Jenowl - that wouldn't be the st john street Tesco in farringdon? Because if it is, its an express not a metro ;). To be honest it wasn't their fault 0that they were so busy at lunchtimes, but think its worse since the fit out, even less room now. That waitrose is a bit weird, proper butcher, decent selection of non-lunch foods but there's no trolleys and only small checkouts. Weird building behind waitrose too, like a massive orange lions head..
@misscara I know the shop you mean, we sometimes get bread from there. No idea of the name either. -
ActionVerb, I still love the Waitrose despite the weird features you mention! The orange lion's head is, I believe, a giant flower but you can't make it out because half of it is windows - defeats the object of having an image there at all. They could have just made it plain orange.
I don't think a tiny Sainsbury's will add much to SGR in convenience other than being a fallback option when Tesco is too horrendous-looking, for example on a Sunday afternoon or Monday night. It might be OK for bread and milk and emergency items, but surely they will have very limited space for a good range of produce. -
@Misscara that's good old akdeniz, on the corner of durham road and seven sisters. the bread is great (they sell the old petek-type bread, when it was softer and less crusty. oh god i love that bread) and they have the most amazing selection of pulses i've ever seen. also good for cheese, 24 hour booze and a huge variety of toilet roll brands.
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That could be it Sophie. I managed to completely demolish the Ferrero Rocher display with careless handbag placement, inducing much laughter and celebration from the staff behind the counter. In Woody's I get shouted at for feeling the fruit and veg for ripeness.
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I love akdeniz its great and does the best baklava around here... Sainsbury is pretty dull, shame we didn't get the mini waitrose and more genteel folk of crouch end got it instead... at least it will make tesco less crowded now lots of people will flock to sainsbury... SGR is not the same without the eccentricities of Woody's... everyone seems to have a memory of going into Woody's to buy something random at 3am in the morning or is that just me...
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