The recent spring press tastings at Waitrose and M&S presented an ideal opportunity to compare and contrast the latest wine offer at these two popular retailers.
For many decades, both Waitrose and M&S were considered to ‘own’ the middle/upmarket battleground of UK national retailing. In the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, the UK market broadly divided into ‘grocers’ and ‘department stores’, with Tesco, Sainsbury, Morrisons, Asda and Safeway heading up the former group...
