New shopping mall

Pauline.fontana · by **Pauline.fontana** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 1:18 pm

its looking good, l am excited to see who and what businesses take up options
I wish Marks and Spencer’s would open a food hall there they do a smashing Spanish line

donaduo · by **donaduo** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 2:46 pm

A Waitrose would be great

polop · by **polop** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 2:58 pm

Pauline.fontana wrote:its looking good, l am excited to see who and what businesses take up options
I wish Marks and Spencer’s would open a food hall there they do a smashing Spanish line

Hi a lot of Spanish supermarkets have very good Spanish lines

Tootandploot · by **Tootandploot** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 3:08 pm

I buy the majority of my Waitrose products from Iceland but agree that M & S foodhall would make my life in Spain much nicer. Would stop me from having to import every trip. Having said that there’s no real reason why it can’t be done, they are all franchises so anyone with a few spare bob could invest. I am sure in the right location and with the right clientele it could be a success

marcliff · by **marcliff** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 3:59 pm

Of course, you could always live in UK where I am led to understand they have M&S overpriced food halls and Waitrose stores.
Quesada is already turning into an enclave of Northern Europe, it would be nice for a few more Spanish outlets to open up.
A really good Spanish bakery and cake shop for example.

polop · by **polop** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 4:11 pm

marcliff wrote:Of course, you could always live in UK where I am led to understand they have M&S overpriced food halls and Waitrose stores.
Quesada is already turning into an enclave of Northern Europe, it would be nice for a few more Spanish outlets to open up.
A really good Spanish bakery and cake shop for example.

Jan · by **Jan** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 4:26 pm

donaduo wrote:A Waitrose would be great

WAITROSE. ..The rich persons supermarket!!!

:text-lol:

Waitrose is definitely not a place to go for a weekly shop in the UK IMO.

Danny1967 · by **Danny1967** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 4:36 pm

I agree marcliff quesada is already to English so more Spanish pleases

donaduo · by **donaduo** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 4:43 pm

marcliff wrote:Of course, you could always live in UK where I am led to understand they have M&S overpriced food halls and Waitrose stores.
Quesada is already turning into an enclave of Northern Europe, it would be nice for a few more Spanish outlets to open up.
A really good Spanish bakery and cake shop for example.

Hmm! That’s the same type of argument used in the UK for immigrants there. Many people complain about shops carrying ‘foreign’ produce.

Tesco customers in New Malden complain that there’s too much Korean produce. Similarly shoppers in East Anglia criticise shops for carrying Polish produce. Go back 50 or so years and it was Asian and Carribean food stockists that we’re at the receiving end of wagging tongues.

Many shops are now run by immigrants and stock, exclusively, products from their home countries.

Why then, is it wrong for us to wish for the comforts of home, sold by a UK retailer, in Spain without glib comment?

Cornishbug · by **Cornishbug** » Sat Oct 28, 2017 5:29 pm

Why bother coming to Spain if you miss all things English??Easy answer is to return to the UK where there are plenty of your English food halls !! :oops: