Booths Reviews 

219
TrustScore 2.5 out of 5

2.7

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Considering 39 reviews, most reviewers were unhappy with their experience overall. Many customers reported poor service, including staff ignoring them at the till and deli counters, and experiencing slow service. Issues with orders were also common, such as missing items and incorrect scanning at collection. People frequently encountered problems with product quality, describing food as awful, tasteless, or having an unpleasant texture. However, some customers also noted friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable staff, particularly at specific counters. They also appreciated the high quality food, including delicious items like risotto, and a great range of products such as cheese, meat, and fish.

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Service

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Quality

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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

At checkout the cashier was serving a lady who, by the chatty conversation she was having, knew the customer. On clearing the till area, it was our turn to be served. Our few products began to be sca... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

At the cheese counter, servers are STILL using bare hands ungloved to serve food. I have written feedback before and it's still happening. Booths do bettee! There's too many infections going around. G... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

This review is about the cafe at Booths Longton. My friend and I stopped to do some shopping and decided to have lunch afterwards. The cafe may have been understaffed on the day we visited. However,... See more


Company details

  1. Supermarket
  2. Catering Food and Drink Supplier
  3. Food Manufacturer
  4. Food Products Supplier
  5. Fresh Food Market
  6. Online Food Ordering Service

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Since Booths were founded in 1847 by Edwin Henry Booth, aged 19, we’ve always brought our customers the best quality food and drink, in beautifully presented stores, with colleagues who care deeply. Specialists in food, drink and gifts, you’ll find our 25 stores across the North West of England, which we affectionately call Booths Country. Discover our Food To Order service; where you can order delicious food and drink online for your special occasions. Whether it's an anniversary, birthday or business gathering, order your feast online to collect from your local store. Our handmade celebration cakes are very popular — crafted in the heart of Lancashire with a wide variety of flavours to suit everyone, they make the perfect centrepiece to the table.


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TrustScore 2.5 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I have been a customer for over 30 yrs…

I have been a customer for over 30 yrs and have been let down today for glasses for my fundraiser. I was promised they would be available today. I originally asked for a donation but they said they were unable to supply as already donate to charities. Presumably this is the 25p i add voluntarily on my bill every time. The manager was not interested in our complaint
Undervalued customer
Good luck with your new build at Scotforth ALDI
😱

16 March 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

I’m perplexed

I’m perplexed - do you need to be over 25 to buy logs for a fire from this store? If ‘yes’ then why? If not, then was the (very) elderly gentleman on the checkout when he indicated that clearly we were ‘ over 25’ - something that did not go down well with my extremely young looking and attractive other half!!!!

15 March 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Tried new cafe at Booths in Clitheroe…

Tried new cafe at Booths in Clitheroe today. Bit small, expensive at £6.25 for a ham n cheese toastier with thin slivers of ham in thick sliced bread. Nice caramelised onion chutney though. Very long wait for 2 sandwiches at 35mins. Upside was my partner got second pot of tea to replace first one that went cold. Loos were clean, cafe staff polite but very slow, average age about 21.

3 March 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Booths café Penrith

Booths café Penrith - first and last time!
The place had all the atmosphere of a petrol forecourt. Bland furniture, cold and completely uninviting.

21 January 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Extremely disappointing service in Booths cafe in Poulton

Customer service in the cafe is non- existent.
Called into the cafe at 1pm to be served by a very rude lady, no name badge on, however name of staff on receipt 'Sandra'. She had no inter personal skills whatsoever, no welcoming, no interaction, nothing. Two young people, male and female, were also working behind the counter who didn't look very happy either, no smiles. Sandra, as front of house, should be leading by example. I actually felt sorry for the young staff having to work in that environment.
Customer service in the cafe needs a massive shakeup.

19 January 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Rogan Josh gone wrong!

Just bought a Rogan Josh ready meal from the Carnforth store, it was very disappointing. Nearly all tomatoes and pepper and very little meat, also the flavour was wrong. Usually everything is good, so I hope this is a one off!
My rating is for the Rogan Josh, not the store!

19 January 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Very dissapointed with booths…

Very dissapointed with booths considering they are suppose to be an upmarket shop. I got a TGTO bag of meat and fish it states on the app shop value £15 TGTG price £5 so I bought one when I got it home the shop value was only £13.75 i rang the store and the lady said that the total was £7! I advised her she was incorrect, it consisted of 2 packs of raw prawns that smelt when i cooked them so they went in the bin, and a wild duck which I cooked but wasn't happy with the look and smell of that either so that went in the bin too. So as you can imagine I'm not happy whatsoever. It was my first one from Booths and it will be my last, I have had a few from Aldi and so much more superior even getting a little more than is expected

10 January 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Now loss making and turning nasty

Now loss making and turning nasty. I parked at the Booths Kirkby Lonsdale store at Christmas, spent over £30 in the store and left after just over half an hour. I was supposed to have free customer parking for an hour. I have just received a menacing letter from their parking agents demanding £100. It masquerades as a fine in a way little short of fraudulent misrepresentation but in reality is just a trumped up erroneous invoice with arbitrary amounts and an arbitrary nonsense so-called “appeal” process - designed like everything else to mimic a penalty notice from a public body with public powers. Booths have a chance to do the decent thing and call them off but regardless no legal force unless awarded to their cowboy parking agents (Parkingeye”) in Court - which, of course, will never happen + I’ll happily see them there with maximum well-deserved adverse publicity for Booths - as should all their other victims.

I used to love Booths and regard them as one of the best things the North West had to offer. I’ve even gone out of my way to support them by ordering their food from Amazon at my main home in London. I can now only assume they’re resorting to sharp practice in a foolhardy attempt to survive. Very sad and destined to accelerate their self-destruction.

27 December 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I shop at Booths in Keswick atleast 5…

I shop at Booths in Keswick atleast 5 times per week as I live in Keswick.
I see that they have recently appointed a person to meet & greet you on arrival. This is a unique service which I found most helpful as these days shopping in a busy supermarket such as Booths can be rather stressful !
This gentleman ( from Cuba ) was so helpful with such a lovely attitude to his work. Nothing was a problem he helped me find a trolley then took it to the trolley station for me ! If only other supermarkets offered such good service I would perhaps be tempted to shop out of town.

Well done Booths.

7 December 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Christmas day meal ruined. Thank you Booths

Just had our Christmas dinner ruined. Thank you Booths Chorley. Bought a selection of steaks from the butcher counter here for our Christmas Day meal and two were just OK (not great by any stretch) but I had the crushing misfortune to endure THE most toughest, tasteless steak I have EVER eaten in my entire life. What an absolute disgrace. I’ve enjoyed a great many steaks in my life. Some eaten in restaurants and some cooked at home but this Christmas Day steak was categorically the worst steak ever in my entire life.

I got an obscenely expensive rib of beef here last year for Christmas Day and it was nothing short of atrocious. More fat than actual beef (the dogs ate more of it than we did) so I thought I’d be safe with steaks this year. Big mistake. At least the dogs enjoyed it again this year because I certainly didn’t. Thank you Booths for ruining what should have been a celebration meal with family and turning it into a VERY expensive meal for my dogs. Valuable lesson learned.

25 December 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Penwortham store poor

Penwortham staff (team leader checkout and team leader cheese) rude, slagging other staff off whilst serving. Make you feel like an inconvenience. I’ve complained before but no improvement. Christmas is no excuse- Tesco, Lidl and Waitrose staff are great.Ive ordered Christmas food from Booths and I am dreading going to pick it up- New Year’s resolution - don’t shop at Booths-

22 December 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Would like to thank staff for prompt…

Would like to thank staff for prompt assistance . I had a mishap when a pack of beer fell from a shelve hit the floor exploded covering me in beer . The staff dealt with the situation within seconds offering me assistance and cleaning up the mess .
I have always found the shopping experience at the Burscough store to be good and the store always clean and well stocked .

9 December 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Booths Hale Barns

Booths Hale Barns: once again the Staff at the Deli Counter are far too engrossed in conversation to bother serving customers, in spite of them being made fully aware of the presence of customers. Dismal.

16 December 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Booths Tarleton uses Parking eye to rip…

Booths Tarleton uses Parking eye to rip you off if you go shopping and then have a coffee in the cafe.

I put up with the slow service. I put up with the high prices. But the parking ticket means I’m now shopping at Aldi. As a bonus I seem to have recouped the parking ticket cost in my first major shop at Aldi

1 December 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 4 out of 5 stars

I look forward to my weekly visit to…

I look forward to my weekly visit to Booths, I don't find the prices to bad and the quality is excellent, you can pre-order items and collect them on a persific date of your choice. There are two coffee area's, if one is busy, the staff are lovley,and the self-serve tills have gone. Only one thing that would improve Booths. A Chemist for precipitation, and a photo shop. One would not need to go anywhere else then. Happy Shopper !

2 December 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Booths at Keswick is a lovely shop but…

Booths at Keswick is a lovely shop but far too expensive and spoiled by staff who are miserable, offhand with customers, and who seem to consider it an imposition to have to help a customer or to offer polite service. I watched them stand back whilst a customer verbally abused an elderly lady, shouting obscenities at her. They did nothing to help her and allowed the abuse to continue. Any other shop would have involved security staff and removed the offending bully. Their whole attitude was one of could not be bothered. They have lost not only my custom but the custom of 7 family members.

20 November 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Shop in chorley Booths

As a regular shopper in Booth in Chorley, l would like to thank the staff, who create a pleasant atmosphere every week we visit. They are so helpful and go out of their way to make sure that we leave with a smile on our face.

14 November 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Wonderful Booths

Interested to see Booths on the news today in light of their decision to remove self- service tills. This bought to mind my visits to Booths in the Lake District. What wonderful, welcoming service. 5*.

1 September 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

We are visiting Pendle area and have…

We are visiting Pendle area and have used Booths Barrowford shop and cafe over the past few days. Lovely place. Lots of choice and the staff are very helpful and friendly. The young man, Martin, in the cafe couldn't have done better. He was great. Fantastic place to shop and eat.

27 October 2023
Unprompted review

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