I have been a weekly shopper with Waitrose and a loyal John Lewis customer for years. This will no longer be the case after my recent experiences of shopping at Waitrose. It has taken much longer to respond to in-store precautions than other supermarkets and its sanitising procedures are still well short of reasonable expectation. The staff, drafted in from other stores, are often rude and intimidating. While appreciating the pressures created by the current situation, there is absolutely no justification for this and the contrast with the pleasant attitude of staff in other supermarkets is very marked. Frequent emails are full of empty promises about the availability of delivery slots, especially for older, vulnerable customers causing huge anxiety for my 86 year old house-bound mother. On the one occasion when I was able to book a click and collect slot (obtaining a home delivery is impossible), the number of inappropriate substitutions and unavailable items made it a pretty useless endeavour. Waitrose seems to be living off a reputation which is now quite undeserved.