Abingdon Town Band was playing carols outside Waitrose last night. The Town Band has been out and about far more in recent months.
This morning, donkeys from the Donkey Sanctuary were outside Waitrose. They are regular visitors to Abingdon and can often be seen at the Christmas Extravaganza. They also sometimes help out during Palm Sunday. But it’s not just Abingdon — they were in Didcot on Saturday.
The Waitrose store appears to have moved past the Christmas Tree stage and will soon transition into the Turkey collection stage.
The removal of Waitrose Unwrapped, their unpackaged section, and its replacement with the Christmas Shop, a highly packaged section, was another recent change.
Watrose claimed that ‘Unwrapped’ was a trial but it was in place for ages. The products chosen were poorly thought out, the lack of availability wouldn’t be tolerated anywhere else and support for the section was abysmal. It failed because there was never any serious intention behind it. The fact that it has been replaced by a mountain of pointless tat is further evidence that the whole charade was never anything more than greenwash.