Waitrose only major supermarket with majority Tory customers, polls show

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IcePee@lemmy.beru.co · 22 pts · 2y (2 replies)

it's kind of ironic, Tories shopping at a store run on market socialist grounds: worker co-op.

OrlandoDoom@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

MrNesser@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y (8 replies)

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.

GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk · 21 pts · 2y (7 replies)

"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.

IcePee@lemmy.beru.co · 3 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I get the old adage: the older you get the more right you are. But, the richer?

Famko@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

That's definitely true as you would want to conserve the wealth that you currently have, which right wing policies usually help with.

IcePee@lemmy.beru.co · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I'm not so sure about that. That framing hazardously to the stereotype that the right are fiscally responsible as opposed to the spend crazy left.

I meant more in the sense that rich people usually get tax benefits and failing big businesses get bailouts.

You hit peak earnings by age at around 40-49. https://www.statista.com/statistics/802183/annual-pay-employees-in-the-uk/ As mentioned, you generally have assets and savings as well.