I was a Boots girl, myself. We rather fancied ourselves because we got 10 per cent off our Rimmel make-up and felt that put us above the supermarket lot in some obscure way. We\’ve recently had a Waitrose employee in the family who got frightfully grand. "Ah," she said, on seeing the John Lewis chairman on the news. "My partner."
Except that some partners are more equal than others.