Waitrose & Partners Bishop's Stortford in East Hertfordshire

A safe place to shop with offers of good quality foods and products to purchase.

Still the best supermarket in town with a very good range of high quality food and drink. No hassle parking, great produce and helpful staff.

I went to get my Friday fish and was surprised not to get my usual 20% discount for having a loyalty card. Apparently if the gush is reduced on the counter, it isn't at the till. Feels really mean! Coupled with gaps in the shelves apparently due to lack of staff, this wasn't the usual experience. There were even bags of green new potatoes showing slight reduction, people were shocked that they were not being thrown away... Could do better.

Always an enjoyable experience shopping at Waitrose, calm and stress free.

Very helpful staff well laid out store easy to park and good selection of groceries etc

Good store hour and a half parking gives time to walk around town too.

The food was really fatty and not delicious, the foods there are barely affordable. 2/10 wouldn’t go again

This Waitrose is consistently good between 2018 to current time of writing - June 2024.

A great selection of produce at Waitrose. Located a few minutes walk from the high street in Bishops Stortford. You can park free for 1.5 hours and they have enough space for around 150 cars. They are open 8.00 - 20.00 most days and 10.00 - 16.00 on Sunday.

Excellent customer service from the staff in particular Jackie and another lady (apologies, I can’t remember her name) I had a few issues with self scanning and in turn the staff machines were not working either. The staff recognised I was with my four children and were very apologetic for the inconvenience caused and offered to assist with packing numerous times. A positive experience in an unfortunate situation

Very disappointing. I have been shopping here for the last 8 years. Today, however, I noticed a massive new surveillance camera above the entrance, recording everyone entering the store. It made me feel uneasy and cheap. The message it sends to customers is that they cannot be trusted and need to be watched. Shoplifters are unlikely to be deterred, but good customers will. I may well shop in Lidl in Harlow - at least it's cheaper.

Been in this Waitrose many times usually very helpful and kind staff. Went to pick up a parcel from the front desk but was meet with a rude staff member who then talked to other customers about us in a negative way. Another customer even spoke to me saying how rude the lady was. Wont be returning until this staff member is disciplined with some manners and respect for customers.

Always a good shopping experience

Such a disgusting experience at your bishop’s Stortford Waitrose. this isn’t the first time I have received this type of abuse. I went into your store today and a member of your staff behaved in a horrible and unprofessional way towards me. She left her shopping trolley unattended without the visibility of her shopping bag. I was curious about the plant pots discounted in the unattended trolley, she came from stores staff area and rudely said to me this is her shopping, am I blind !!!!! I apologised straight away but she walked off without acknowledging. Train your staff on customer service. Thank you

Picked up £35 Turkey Stuffed Crown on 24th …. Was so tasty and delicious - will definitely order another for next year! Worth the money. Also very quick and easy to pick up from the store.

Great store with plenty of options

'cept they move thing around :-)

Very small. Car park is a mess.

Smaller store for Waitrose. Has most of the things required. They have no cafe but Florence Walk across the road has two.

Typically, whenever you visit a Waitrose Supermarket you know precisely what to expect. True, some costs are higher but regular shoppers know that most frequently bought general food and household products are competitively priced. Items on the deli, cheese, meat and fish counters are fresh, not prewrapped in plastic so you can see exactly what you are buying AND you can buy as little or as big a piece as you need. The Bishops Stortford store has a particularly exciting fresh food counter and a bakery that people on a diet should avoid because of the many tempting delicacies. The aisles are wide and there are generally sufficient checkout counters. Outside, the generous carpark means you can always find a space. Everything is on one level with double automatic doors providing easy access for wheelchairs and those with disabilities. Any issues? Outside the store is a selection of garden products. Instead of trying to carry a heavy bag of garden compost around, wouldn't it be just as easy to take a ticket for scanning at the end of shopping then pick up the heavy bags on the way out. Any queries and its on your receipt.

One of the best supermarkets for quality in food. The best for to go items.

Very well laid out, easy access down isles, very fresh produce

Easy parking, wide range of products, helpful staff.

Great staff who are very helpful and friendly. Couldn't buy everything on our list as sold out. Must be because of Coronation weekend.

Well, it's a Waitrose! What else need be said? They have many items that cannot be found in S,T or MS.

Trolleys all around the parking area

Joshua served me on the till with excellent customer service! He found me the best way to cook a turkey by saying to me ""To work out the cooking time, a good rule of thumb is to allow 20 minutes per kg, and then +70 minutes for a 2–3.9kg turkey, or +90 minutes for a 4–10kg turkey."". Thank you Joshua!

Staff in this shop are exceptional it is the best super market experience ever! Ross on customer service so friendly and ladies on tills and anyone u speak to in this shop are really good!

Very good offers and definitely good quality. Sometimes car parking irksome (no fault of Waitrose, just inconsiderate/incapable drivers). Hesitated giving 5 stars as often find items not on shelf. Very friendly staff, who are always ready to assist in a very courteous manner, can usually solve that problem. Meat, fish and deli counter offer exceptional choice of products. Again, same plaudits for assistants at these and also bakery counter.

Ordered two jackets, told order was ready for collection. Tried to use the check in screen, didn't work. Spoke to customer service assistant who said only half the order had arrived. I asked when I could expect the remaining item, he just shrugged. Not impressed...

One of the most horrendous customer service experiences of my life. Went in for lunch. Saw they now offered a meal deal on "selected lines" however no indetifiers as to what those were. Head to the self serve and the deal didn't come off. Asked the attendee and she said I need to complete the transaction to see the offer. Well the card machine was still saying full price. She then insisted I had to go back down to the cabinet and change my items. I explained it wasn't marked and she said it wasn't her problem as she didn't work down there. Asked if a team leader could support and told me no. I had to go to customer service. Went to the CSD and 2 staff members were there talking about another problem. Neither one acknowledged me. Finally after they had solved it I go a "yes?" explained the situation. Was told she didn't know what was on it and told me to go back over. Said there were no labels. Marched me over to verify my answer. "no, it is not clear is it". Told I needed to change my items. Managed to get a pda and scan a few and found that the drink was the issue. Fizzy and sweet drinks included but not water? Finally was allowed to pay waitrose for a poor quality wrap, crisps and drink I didn't want. Cheers waitrose!

nice shop. well laid out. not over busy. nice selection

I normally shop in Tesco so I found Waitrose quite expensive and the quality didn't seem to be that good, pepper soft and leaking and one broken egg was very surprised

Waitrose is always a delight to shop and Bishop's Stortford is just as it should be...wonderful...

The Store is splendid & easy to shop, but too many shoppers have stupid illsized gross cars!

not very lidl on price. cheers mate, nans crying

Professional friendly staff with lots of promotional offers too.

It's Waitrose - grocery shopping as good as it gets. Plus free parking.

Excellent supermarket with lots of quality products

Great customer service experience today from the welcome desk and staff

It was ok for a shop if needed essential that prices have gone up ripping us off. Even prices yellow ticket expensive for near expired food. Glad I don't have to rely on this shop for all food

A nice store with everything you would expect from a Waitrose.

Absolutely love the sushi bar. Lovely staff and made by hand. You can watch the guy make them

Nice medium sized Waitrose. Good to see they still have BBQ coals. Only negative was the oven bulb I bought, the only one they had, was too big.

Excellent shop with friendly helpful staff. Allison on till a credit to herself and waitrose

Hands Face Space Consideration. A good selection of grocery, cleaning and household items. Lots to choose from with Waitrose ideas for meal time down each aisle.

Excellent luxury food and great service. Tally ho

Had most of what I wanted and a good alternative for the one item I couldn't find

Absolute wonderful experience, I was having such a great time I had to pinch my self to make sure I wasn’t dreaming 👍🏻

The store is very good just wish it was larger! The staff are always very helpful. The only problems I have ever had are with parking and queuing for click and collect.

Waitrose, or as I fondly refer to it the Church of Latter Day Pretentiousness, exceeded my expectations for Pretentiousness. Bravo.

Nicely laid out store and toilets a plus.

Always a fantastic shopping experience and variety of choices. Thank you

Convenient parking outside store.

Been shopping John Lewis ( oxford street ) waitrose holloway road many years. Never had a problem. Just moved to Bishop’s Stortford. After few bad experiences in Bishops Stortford waitrose will stop going that brunch. Some member of staff xenophob. So upsetting.

Expensive but it's Waitrose! The highest quality supermarket chain and this branch is no exception.

I shop here on a Friday morning. During lockdown you will queue for about 10 to 15 minutes. Trollies are cleaned and hand sanitizer provided. I use the Waitrose scanning app which works very well.

Had to wait too long for a click and collect 20 mins ! And stuff missing but on recipe ☹️ 15 mins on phone to get our money back ! Internet useless to get money back !!

It was a long wait in the sleet and rain and you have run out of Petit Chablis. Sandra Call Harlow

Covid precautions are good except for a rather narrow combined entrance/exit.

Friendly service, almost everything I bought was on 25% off. Bought proper haggis.

Great choice of products, very well managed queues and amazingly friendly staff. Nothing is too much hustle.

Always a great shopping experience. So many different and interesting food items to choose from. Great prices too . I bought a beautiful boned and dressed turkey 🦃 breast to put in my freezer ready for Christmas 🎄.

The products are of quality, the protective measures against Covid-19 are respected.

The store is a bit of a jumble with real no sense of purpose

Always well stocked and polite staff

Generally good, staff v friendly and helpful, sometimes stock gets low or non existent. Car park is a bit of a rammy due to combination of the town's worst drivers in the biggest cars.

Quality 10 Price 0 So average is a 5

Food there is great. Especially the charlie bingham microwave meals! The laboratories are very clean too.

Very pleasant experience and helpful staff.

Have always liked Waitrose and they looked after us NHS staff during the lockdown so we could shop anytime. Thank you! Lots of little different stuff to buy too

Very expensive without any specific reason.

Good range of everyday items at better prices than they used to be. Great cheese counter.

Nice Waitrose, sells most things.

Has wonderful staff and.most foods, household goods I need

Products are usually good quality, a tad overpriced but the staff service has always been good. This store seemed to have a lot less variety than my normal branch in Canterbury

Wide variety of fresh produce, always a great place to shop, reasonable prices for the products we like to purchase, friendly staff but self distancing from other shoppers not so good ,wearing a mask is not a superpower people

Excellent nice clean store well stocked and good bargains Staff very friendly and efficient What you expect from Waitrose

Not my favourite Waitrose, as does not seem to have the sa

Really lovely Waitrose. Good selection inside and nice layout. The staff are always very pleasant, polite and professional. Made to feel welcome by the staff and enjoy shopping here.

Best sushi ever had. Made fresh on site. Plenty of parking. No longer get free coffee with Waitrose card.

It was clean did not see any hand and trolley station was not to busy

Not permitting 2 people to shop together is an outdated response to Covid and needs to be reviewed. Insufficient checkouts open. Well stocked.

Great verity very good quality.

Everything was good from the parking and then on the check out staff all attentive a ND polite

Ok to shop there but I think a bit dearer

Would have got 5 stars but they said they had stock of an item which they didn't when i went in to the store, so there needs to be some form of live updates on their website. Easy in and out, but careful of other drivers. Staff members were extremely helpful especially the lady that asked another customer to get out of the way so that I could exit the building and maintain social distancing.

A pleasant experience.....we asked after a particular product, the staff were really helpful...

Good range of quality items which I couldn't get from the other local superstores. Staff are very friendly but all efficient.

Really cannot go wrong with Waitrose.

Free parking for 2hrs. Quality of some of the food gone down in my opinion, but the fresh sushi is second to none!

A lovely store. Not to busy and had what I needed

A small store but a pleasant place to shop, good to see all the staff wearing masks too.

I love my local, it always has those unusal seasons that make a home cooked meal pop.

I'm a waitrose customer of many years, and having lived in and around London for most of my adult life found both the range, quality and availability of products from our local waitrose shops exemplary. This one tick none of those boxes, I visited at around 4pm and had to activly dodge staff refilling, rubbish around them. The shelfs where empty, even the essentials not available. Best thing to do, avoid this shop and try the local tesco!

Great customer service, good offers on. Car park fees not displayed very well on entry.

Can't use scan and shop as small store card does not work on scanner

EMPTY EMPTY Shelves and freezers ...shocking for a Friday midafternoon. Very disappointing

The food is sublime, its an awakening of tastes and pleasures,that can only be tasted by buying there products,that was the first time id been in there shop.amazeing.!

Great selection of products - limited parking