Great store with plenty of choice and availability. Staff are friendly. Reasonable prices.read more

I really like this Tesco store. I used to use it all the time when in Uni, and recently moved back…read moreto the area - is it possible to feel nostalgic about Tesco?! It's quite a good size without feeling like a warehouse. There's a pretty good selection of bargains on offer in the clearance sections. But what I really like about this Tesco is that they have now introduced a recycling centre that gives you green clubcard points on certain items (http://www.tesco.com/greenerliving/greener_tesco/what_tesco_is_doing/qa_recycling_centre.page ) Glass bottles and jars Steel/aluminium food & drink cans Plastic bottles (eg milk containers and soft drink/water bottles)

Once upon a time, my hungry little belly beckoned me to Tescos Western Avenue. What a mistake that…read morewas. Nothing but aggression, anger and violence was demonstrated to me and my lady friend by the employees. My concerns do not lie amongst the fact I was denied my RedBull, but that I feel as though some homophobia and ageism occurred against me and my partner (both females, 17). While paying for my sugar-free White Peach Redbull, as I have every right to do so, an ID was provided by myself and I was still denied my drink. I am outraged that in the 21st century people can be so ignorant.

The food at tesco is okay... could be better. The sushi's very bland but the coconuts there are…read moredelicious. The service is mid too with the workers being very moody, (fair enough, they're at work) and the cashiers sometimes being too fast and aggresive. The ambiance is pretty good to be fair with decent music playing and the whole thing kinda feels like a chill vibe.

A large supermarket with loads of free parking and a petrol station offering well priced fuel…read more The store is clean and tidy with plenty of tasters available. The staff are helpful and friendly with nothing seeming to be too much trouble. There is a Timpson shoe repair shop on site which is very handy. Just over to the other side of the carpark are a few other stores: newsagents, clothes shop, dry cleaners and a pub....

Over priced supermarket. Staff not that friendly. The food in the cafe is awful and staff not…read morehelpful when you tell them your not happy with the food. Security guard looks like he doesn't enjoy his job. Toilets are awful.

This Marks & Spencer branch is mostly food, and therefore ideal for anyone who loves M&S food and…read moreprefers to do all their food shopping there, as you can park outside, while doing a week's shop in the city centre isn't as convenient. This store has much more of a supermarket feel to it than other M&S food sections, with an easy to navigate layout and plenty of trolleys and baskets, and it's rarely busy. As well as food, this store stocks some clothes, although not very much. It is mostly women's clothes and the things that are on special offer in the main store, such as the back to school offers that have been on over the summer. There's usually a sale rail too, which is good for a quick look through while you're there as it's much more condensed than in the big stores where the sale items are scattered about the departments. One thing that particularly stands out is the flowers. Marks & Spencer always do stunning bunches of flowers, but here you have the advantage of taking them straight to the car and home, rather than having them bashed about on the way through town or on the bus. One of the best places you can go if you're getting flowers for someone special.

This is the latest Simply Food store to open in Cardiff. It is located on an out-of-town retail…read morepark and so there is plenty of free car parking. It has more than just food for sale though as it has a nice café at the back. This is nice place to take a break after a heavy morning shopping in the other stores nearby. There are snacks, hot drinks and hot meals on offer. The staff are all young and keen and are eager to answer any queries. They give excellent customer service. The range of food is also excellent and is the usual high quality that you would expect from this brand.

Not the best of supermarkets, in fact I drive halfway across Cardiff to shop in Sainsburys instead…read more The selection of food here is ok, but they really don't have much in the way of quality products or specialist foodstuffs. Additionally they're not particularly great when it comes to stocking organic and fair-trade food products (not verygood in this day and age). I have noticed that I have plenty of offers on in store, especially when it comes to branded goods such as Pringles, Coca Cola, Penguins etc... making them much better value than in other supermarkets. As you've probably noticed from my list however, they really only generally have offers on junk food (no wonder we're all getting obese). I do come here though, quite regularly when I'm after DVDs, video games and electronic goods, which in my experience are often cheaper than even Amazon.com. So that's something too really bear in mind.

When I need a big local supermarket this is where I come. I must admit that I don't tend to buy…read moremuch food in here as my local Coop has better bread, biscuits and own-brand goodies. But for the bulky thing ASDA is just the job. Yesterday we bought toilet rolls, cat food, washing and cleaning stuff and a stock of shampoo that should last until 2012. The clothing department seems to have lost the plot in the last few years. There used to be nice things and now we wonder who exactly wears this stuff. The home department is very cheap and good for replacing broken dishes and worn-out pans. Don't ever buy the 'Smart-Price' pans, they last about 11 seconds before losing all their coating and going rusty.

This is a big and shiny (though no longer quite so new) Morrison's in the centre of the new…read moreharbourside development in Barry. Although it's surrounded by new housing, it's actually pretty central, and only a 10 minute walk from the centre of town. It's also served by several of Barry's local buses. Although a lot of people are disparaging about Morrison's, I quite like this store: it's clean, bright, and well-stocked, and with wide aisles. The quality of fruit and veg is fine (not quite up to Waitrose standards, but then you're paying less) and it's large enough to cope with the most demanding weekly shop. There's an in-store bakery, cake shop, butcher, fish counter and delicatessen, as well as a fresh salad and fresh pizza counter. The large cafe at one end of the store is fine, if you need some sustenance before or after your shop, and it seems popular with pensioners and the odd family doing just that. There's a very large car park, and a petrol station with very competitive prices and reasonable opening hours (NB it doesn't open until 7am, so if you have an early start, fill up the night before). Other facilities include a cashpoint, customer toilets and recycling centre.

Easy to get to, competative prices and helpful staff…read more The cafe isnt cracked up to much but the salad bar in the store is nice. Morrisons is great at trying to get that 'market feel' with a bakery, deli counter, fish counter and butchers. The petrol station can be a pain - the layout is terrible and if it's busy it's hard to get out of the car park. They have just re-furbished this and i havent seen if they've actually changed the layout - i hope so though!

There aren't many supermarkets I'd feel inclined to write reviews about but this one is a definite…read morefavorite for a few different reasons. 1. Its Cheap. It has cheap clothes, cheap DVD's and cheap food. There's not much I need that Asda doesn't sell really. 2. Its Quiet. I can't tell you that there won't be any queues at Christmas but pretty much everytime I go there I have a nice relaxing shopping experience which is mighty hard to come by these days. 3. It full of Singles!! I'm not one for trying to get a date over the fruit and veg aisle but I did appreciate going here back in my singleton days because I didn't feel like the only loner in the world and it made shopping that little bit more enjoyable.

I really do love this Asda, it's pretty much the only shop need. First of all everything is…read morecheap/reasonable and is of a good quality. This is also the best place to buy Blu Ray's from. Generally what supermarkets do is under sell their media products in order for you to spend more money on other things in the shop, great when you only go in there to buy the films then. And finally, it is the only place I've ever seen that sells this strawberry and lime cider, I'm not joking when I say I'm probably keeping that company afloat on my own with the amount I've bought.

Reviewing Sainsbury's does seem a little silly when this is the only big one in Cardiff but I feel…read moreI need to draw special attention to its card section. I'm usually disappointed by the cards in supermarkets, although it's usually the place I am when I remember that I need to get one and it's too late to go anywhere else. This is the situation I found myself in today, and readied myself to buy a boring card that's the same as you see everywhere else and will probably be the same as another card on the mantelpiece of my friend whose birthday it was. In my previous visits to Sainsbury's (and I do go there a few times a week) I had noticed the card section at the front of the store and assumed that it was pretty small, but I was surprised to find that there was rather a large selection to choose from. And they weren't all just your standard Hallmark cards either; they had lines that I'd never seen anywhere else and were really lovely. As well as the birthday card I needed, I found loads of blank cards with gorgeous pictures that I bought just because I liked them, and I ended up spending around £8 in total, which I think is rather a lot to spend on cards. This was not because they were expensive either, with most standard size cards costing around £1.50. So next time you need to buy someone a card, do not underestimate Sainsbury's! (Oh, and on a slightly different subject, this Sainsbury's petrol station is also the only place I know of where you can pump your tyres up for free. Thank-you, Sainsbury's)

My favourite supermarket in Cardiff as at the moment I sadly can't quite afford to go to Waitrose…read moreon a regular basis. This Sainsburys supermarket is big, but is by no means as intimidating as Tesco Extra can be (if you go with friends you can very easily loose them in Tesco's). They have a great selection of food at all prices available, and I particularly like Indian and Chinese ready meal selection. They also have a fresh fish and meat, delicatessen, and bakery counters, all manned by really lovely staff. Finally I'd also recommend checking out their DVD selection as prices are rather cheap, I managed to buy New Moon the week it came for only £7.99 (so I can now swoon at Robert Pattison to my hearts content).