Greggs winning pasty wars

formerly manx toffee · January 13, 2015

one for @Bruce Wayne ...

...is Sayers dead

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30792619

(Open): Shares in bakery chain Greggs jumped 6% after it said strong trading over the Christmas period meant profits would be above expectations.
Like-for-like sales at its stores were up 8.2% in the five weeks to 3 January, and rose 6% in the fourth quarter.
Greggs, a FTSE 250 company, added it was "confident" that it could make "further progress in the year ahead".

Groucho · January 13, 2015

Sayers will rise again.

Bakery, bread, dough, rise, oh forget it....

Pienaar's gloves · January 13, 2015

Greggs is for snobs from darn sarf.

Sayers is for the working scouse man.

SailorBlue · January 13, 2015

Sattertwaites in Crosby were good as well

Donald Twain · January 13, 2015

Their 'festive slice' was a winner .

Donald Twain · January 13, 2015

Pienaar's gloves said:
Greggs is for snobs from darn sarf.

Sayers is for the working scouse man.

Rubbish!

ste d' indica · January 13, 2015

I do miss a bit of Sayers.. Parson's batter Greggs round here, loads better.

hullefc · January 13, 2015

Cooplands is King in Hull, with their 4 sausage rolls for a £1 and 5 cheeses straws for a £1.

Bruce Wayne · January 13, 2015

formerly manx toffee said:
one for @Bruce Wayne ...

...is Sayers dead

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30792619

(Open): Shares in bakery chain Greggs jumped 6% after it said strong trading over the Christmas period meant profits would be above expectations.
Like-for-like sales at its stores were up 8.2% in the five weeks to 3 January, and rose 6% in the fourth quarter.
Greggs, a FTSE 250 company, added it was "confident" that it could make "further progress in the year ahead".

I think Greggs can thank the ingenious PR campaign undertaken by the government to give them so much free publicity over the pasty tax. It clearly overcame the dastardly campaign by the opposition to show that eating pasty products is a choking hazard.

Or something. Was that ok?

Moomin · January 13, 2015

hullefc said:
Cooplands is King in Hull, with their 4 sausage rolls for a £1 and 5 cheeses straws for a £1.

I'm in the cooplands camp, bread rolls are delightful from them.

Kurt. · January 13, 2015

@MoutsGoat

Lacina · January 13, 2015

Hardly ever see's a sayers anymore, they all become pound bakery shops now.

Chewbacca · January 13, 2015

Pienaar's gloves said:
Greggs is for snobs from darn sarf.

Sayers is for the working scouse man.

Pardon?

Greggs are from the North East. In fact I can remember when they only had a handful of shops back in the 70's and a lukewarm Greggs cheese & onion pasty was a rare treat.

Ashtonian · January 13, 2015

Sayers are terrible. Used to go to them years ago and now their food just tastes horrible next to Greggs.

I remember Sayers done the best cheese and onion pasty of all time when i was a kid. Then they changed the recipe

Blue 1 · January 13, 2015

Used to love a Sayers pasty when I visited Liverpool. There used to be Sayers all over the place there, don't see so many now, not had one of their pasties for years so might be remembering them a bit nostalgically.

Greggs is terrible.