The Golden Square is quite a nice shopping center, especially for a small town like Warrington. It…read moreis Warrington's main shopping center alongside Cockhedge, which is mainly there just to house an Asda store. As you can tell by its name, Golden Square is basically a large, indoor "Square" of shops, with 135 shops in total according to their website, all over one floor. I dislike the approach of it all being over one floor, being used to seeing shopping centers on multiple floors, which also allows room for more shops, but Warrington's Golden Square also has a few stores in an outside square to it, which is also quite nice including Rhode Island Coffee and a Post Office, which is a nice area. The Shopping Center as I said is quite nice, both inside and out with a good range of shops, including WHSmtih, EE, Starbucks CEX, JD, 3, Waterstones and Vision Express, just to name a few. Due to the shape of the mall, it is quite easy to navigate around. This mall is quite nice for a small town and although it isn't somewhere I'd recommenced you constantly go out of your way to go here, it is well worth a look in if you are in the area as it is a nice shopping center, with a good range of shops and is great for a small town like Warrington, hence a solid 3 star rating.

A shopping centre in the centre of Warrington town centre with all your usual high street shops -…read moreBoots, WHSmith, Next, M&S. Its all under cover so the potential bad English weather won't be a factor. According to their web site, there are 135 stores inside. I went recently a few days before Christmas and it wasn't too busy - nothing like shopping centres like Arndale Centre or Trafford Centre (actually never normally go to Trafford Centre but especially near Christmas but I think I can safely say its crazy busy!) Didn't stay too long but went to Boots and also went to Debenhams for some food - which was actually pretty good. There is multi storey car parking but unfortunately it is not free. For under an hour, its £1. It goes up to £5.50 if you are more than 4 hours. Between 2-4 hours is £2.20 which is not too bad I guess.

Warrington seems to have a good number of retail parks, and Riverside Retail Park is one of them,…read morejust outside the town centre, it has a couple of large stores and brands, including Sports Direct, Home Bargains, B&M, Next and a drive-thru McDonald's, with a couple of empty units with other stores either closing or moving to other retail locations across Warrington. I did find a lack of lighting and a dead atmosphere around the retail park, making it feel slightly run-down, especially compared to JunctionNINE and Gemini Retail Parks, which seem to offer a better selection of stores in the same town. There are only two hours of free parking here, and you will be fined if you overstay that welcome, so do tread accordingly, two hours is more than enough time as there isn't a lot of things to do here anymore, but those looking to spend any significant length of time in McDonald's and then one or two shops, may feel rushed. There always seem to be plenty of car parking spaces here though. 2* - Only useful for a handful of stores, which would probably be better located in the town centre's other retail parks, seems like an unnecessary burden to have this additional one that doesn't offer a great deal to the town.

Laura Ashley can have a bit of a chintzy reputation howevr some of the interior designs in this…read moreshop are fantastic. This store has a fantastic mix of everything you could want for your home, and good quality fashion pieces. I have a stunning leather handbag from here, and some beautiful rugs, lamps and curtains. I think it stocks something for everyone, young and old alike. The staff are extremely friendly and definitely happy to help. The layout of the store is beautiful and gives lots of inspiration for how to decorate your own home. If you are visiting Riverside retail park, this is a shop that is definitely worth a visit.

The idea was a good one. Get a few really high class shopping experiences together in a Victorian…read moreArcade and let people have somewhere to get all the unusual gifts and nick-nacks they didn't realise they wanted. Unfortunately, whether through greed and high rents or just simple economic incompetence, the shops and galleries soon closed. The upstairs terrace is impressive, but doesn't really achieve any other purpose. This could do with a single owner to take over and stamp a personality on it.

Elegant surroundings - pity most of the other shops have closed possibly due to Council…read moreincompetence? The cafe is a welcome oasis - friendly service, fair prices, cakes and snacks. No piped 'muzak', access by lift which is generally working - it was bought on the basis of cost rather than quality. Quiet room at the far end where writers and the like can work in peace. Two minutes from the 'bus station & five minutes from Central railway station.

This store has improved greatly since my last review, the staff seem much more friendly and…read morehelpful, while the overall selection seems to have improved to a satisfactory level, the store is a little cleaner but there still remains products just thrown on the floor, and others hung up but still looked like they'd been open to try on and left in a mess, still an improvement. Sandwiched in between two larger branches 20 minutes away in each direction (Liverpool and Manchester), but still A-OK and not a bad alternative if you do find yourself in Warrington. 3*

I can't walk past a branch of Primark if I've got my kid's with me and on the day we visited this…read morestore they must have thought Christmas had come early because we'd already visited the Wigan branch a couple of hours earlier. However much like Wigan we found this store quite small in comparison to some of the others we've visited in places like Liverpool, Manchester and Blackpool. Happily for me neither found anything they hadn't already seen in other branches so my wallet remained unopened and intact. If you're in Warrington then have a look but if you really want the full Primani experience then head for Liverpool or Manchester instead.

This place sells almost everything! It seems to be a cross…read morebetween B&Q, Tesco's, Boozebusters and almost everywhere else you can think of. If I'm ever looking for something really unusual, this is where I start off, and the prices of normal household items are so good, I can't believe people shop anywhere else. November 2008 update; Just been back and they have the largest selection of Christmas goodies I've ever seen - and I remember the old days of T J Hughes Christmas grottoes! In the early 60's!

This is a great bargain store in the Stretford mall. It's a discount store for all household items;…read morecleaning products, garden items, tools, decorating products etc. If I need a household item I always go in here first as you can really save quite a lot of money. There are quite a few tills so you usually don't have to queue and the staff are helpful if you need to find something as it can be a bit difficult to find what you need.

A decent ASDA store at the Cockhedge Centre in Warrington, a short walk away from the train station…read moreand town centre, it is in a good location and does have parking as expected. It could be better lit and sign-posted in the car-park area, especially for pedestrians as it did seem a little dangerous for me, as I struggled to find my way out. Pretty much an average ASDA, the selection was fine, I also like the Scan and Go app where you can use your mobile phone to scan items as you shop, to save time at the checkouts. The staff could have been slightly more helpful in regards to finding items. 3* - OK sums it up, multiple better ASDA stores (or supermarkets) in the area to do your shopping, but it's in a good location and useful for the people of Warrington.

Asda's telephone customer service at their Warrington Cockhedge store was absolutely appalling this…read moremorning and left me no option but to take my custom elsewhere. There was literally no one happy to help or to even help