Coffee packaging
Sainsbury's Viennese Blend Coffee with Fig Seasoning - Filter Coffee packet
- Ref. No: SA/PKC/PRO/1/11/3/1/11
- Format: Object
- Date: [1989-1996]
- Level: Item
- Extent: 1 item
- Access: Open
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Please bring back your Viennese coffee with fig. It had a superb taste. When we served it to any guests they always commented on it. - What coffee is this? Where did you buy it? We have missed it terribly. Please O please put it back on the shelves.
Barrie Cooke, 19 January 2020
Please bring this back. Very special experience.
Wil Owen, 25 January 2020
I agree fully. The Sainsbury range of coffees used to he the best available on the high street. Now your shelves look like Starbucks Lite. I used to shop in your store for everything purely because of this particular coffee blend. I would go out of my way to your store for the coffee & shop for all my other groceries & household needs while I was there. Once this was discontinued I began to shop where it was geographically more convenient and I buy a Viennese blend coffee online instead.
I'm sure the loss of my custom doesn't matter one iota, but it should.
Your coffee range used to be genuinely remarkable. Now it's just generic.
Eben, 9 March 2020
Please bring back your Viennese coffee with fig seasoning, when we resume a more usual footing for shopping. I have drunk Viennese coffee with fig for fifty years; I was introduced to it by the manageress of the theatre bae in a small town. She had been a war bride from Germany, and served this coffee in the performance intervals. I have used Sainsbury's Viennese coffee ever since I found it available... until it went off sale recently,the range obviously being restyled and redesigned. I used to give packets to everyone who admired it, in he hope of keeping the sales up! I am trying all the available online brands - at double the price, when you include postage, and they vary enormously in quality and flavour. Only one seems to have the same sort of flavour as Sainsburys - that is Fortnum and Mason's, at three or four times the price when postage is included. Did Sainsbury's sell the recipe to F & M, I wonder, and cease making it themselves, as part of the deal? So now everyone else on the internet, including that luxury store, has my coffee custom and pretty soon I might start making my own blend - it can't be worse than some of the other coffees I have drunk in my exploration of the individual shopper's market. I have tried other coffees, but no, I want my Sainsbury's Viennese. Please return it to sale. It is sorely missed.
Barbara Pavey, 24 March 2020
Yes, please bring it back, I loved it and when you finished selling it I bought 10 packs, now sadly gone. Very hard and expensive to buy elsewhere.
Catherine Tranmer, 5 June 2020
Back in 1972 I worked for J. Lyons when they took over Tetley. I had a project of removing and resiting a load of new Tea-bagging equipment from the Tetley sites and moving them to Greenford. At the Tetley Bletchley site they made Coffee Bags containing one of the best coffees I have ever tasted, Vienesse Blend with Fig Flavouring. Lyons then marketed them but with instant coffee in for rapid colouration and they were not as good. So how come Taylors of Harrogate have an ad on telly with a woman stating how come nobody ever thought of this before? Compliant to the advertising authority is due.
Ian Woodward, 12 August 2020
For heaven's sake bring it back! It used to sell well? What's the problem?
John Haigh, 26 January 2024