Walkden Town Centre (formerly known as The Ellesmere Centre, but many places still use the outdated…read morename, probably down to habits) is the main shopping centre serving Walkden town centre, while it isn't the largest of shopping centres, it does have the largest Tesco Extra store in the UK, this does take up the big bulk of the shopping centre, at least the indoor part anyway. I think the name change was to add the outdoor part of the shopping centre too. There is a lot of car parking, the indoor area is unusual in the sense that instead of escalators, they use travellators, I much prefer these as they are more accessible for all, and look better too. Public transport links to the centre are OK, I do find it annoying that the 36 and 37 buses which are both on the Manchester to Bolton route, which calls here, actually call at different stands at different ends of the shopping centre, I do think having a small bus station would be easier, as it means having to go to one specific bus stop, rather than being able to wait at the same stop for multiple services. Stores located here include Marks and Spencer, Aldi, Poundland, Pets at Home and Boots, there is also a small number of banks and a Post Office. Food retailers located here include Subway, Nando's and Domino's. 3* - Not too bad, it is nice for a small town like Walkden, the lower floor on the inside part of the mall does seem to be pretty empty as many retailers have moved to the outside retail park area or the main road.

The Ellesmere Centre is starting to improve. The whole place has been refurbished and new parts…read morehave been built to attract that lacking custom and shopping vibe in Walkden. Tesco was completely rebuilt and revamped - though it does feel very clinical and a bit like the Hive out of resident evil at night... It's already attracted new custom - Costa Coffee - which is great! They seem to be doing fairly well too. There are always people inside and hopefully this will inspire more custom from other businesses too. The banks have moved and now have very shiny new spaces; HSBC, Lloyds, Halifax, Santander. The market hall is also revamped with a bigger and better area. There's a good selection of stalls from handbags, to a card shop, to a clothes shop, to a fancy dress shop, to a Polish food stall, to a pet items stall AND best of all.... the old school sweet shop! However, it does cost 10p or 20p to go to the toilet but they are well looked after! A list of other shops/facilities around the centre; JD Opticians Electricians Shoe maker St.Anns Hospice Greggs Computer shop Quality Save Nails Hairdressers Carpet shop Boots Phone shop Key Cutters Subway Tanning shop Dominoes Betting Shop Scents/Candles School clothes Aldi - opening this week! With hopefully more to come!

Spinning Gate Shopping Centre is a small shopping centre in the town centre of Leigh, there is a…read moresmall number of shops including various banks as well as Ryman (which has a Post Office), Costa, WHSmith, B and M as well as many smaller brands. The main part of the mall was clean, there were some empty units, it is easily accessed via the Bus Station Many smaller retail parks and "supermarkets" have a much better choice of shopping while in Leigh town centre now 2* - Not terrible but certainly nowhere near what it used to be.

This is very accessible by public transport or private car. It is a well designed shopping centre…read morewith a wide variety of shops available. I hadn't visited here for quite a few years and was disappointed in the market hall as the open market used to be superb. Amongst other things, we used to go here for the excellent Leigh Toaster the best cheese in the world for cheese-on-toast or cheese and onion pies. On this visit, we couldn't find any, yet Warrington Market has it. At the entrance to Spinning Gate is The Goose a decent pub (despite the big screen tv's everywhere you look) with some good beers on offer.

Tesco Extra in Walkden, is the largest Tesco store in England by floor space, with 17,230 square…read moremetres (185,500 sq ft) of floor space. It is located within Walkden Town Centre (formerly known as the Ellesmere Centre) on Bolton Road, it takes up pretty much the whole of one side of the shopping centre, the entrance does feel pretty weird as you have to go up the travelators within the shopping centre, and then turn to get into the store. It isn't the most modern of Tesco stores, I do prefer other locations in that regard, they didn't even have the newer "Scan as You Shop" scanners, they did have the older style devices, which still work as fine but aren't as good as the new ones. Strangely, they have the newer-style checkout machines for these handhelds scanners which don't accept cash. As you'd expect from such a large store, the product range was very good in most areas, most items you'd expect to find from a Tesco are stocked here, although I do prefer the selection of brands especially at Sainsbury's, this store is still good, I did find the fruit and vegetable section to be pretty poor, although it was a large area of the store, many crates were just empty and I couldn't find what I was looking for, which is generally in good stock at other Tesco stores. I do think the store could have been organised better too, for example, some of the aisle numbers did not state what is along that aisle, but some did, which makes no sense to me. Did they start running low on ink part-way through? The staff seemed friendly and helpful, however, it was almost impossible to find a staff member on the shop floor, they all seemed to be at the front of the store and the checkout area. I do find parking to be pretty awkward here, as it is located in a shopping centre, although they do have their own dedicated parking area, it does involve going through the shopping centre again which can be a pretty annoying walk with a trolley full of shopping. They didn't seem to have a deli in operation, many of the counters didn't seem to be manned, and the section which was left for people to purchase seemed half-attempted, compared to a smaller Tesco store, such as the one in Burnley, it is so much worse. 4* - A very large store, the product range in many areas is good, I would for sure visit this Tesco location again but for ease of access, facilities and overall store appearance, it isn't the best Tesco store.

This store has a clothing department. They seem to sell everything. Staff are very friendly and…read morevery helpful some self checkout tills which is good if you just have a couple of items but it can get very busy as it is on the retail park. There is plenty of parking for cars and there are lots of other shops around in a shopping centre.

No option to put no stars.I came out of hospital on Thursday 25 Jan brace on leg & back for 6 weeks…read morecan only walk on 2 crutches so on Friday decided to order some flowers to cheer myself up,chose this shop because it was local.Order was a bouquet of white flowers no llilies cost £25 what I got was a bunch of green flowers with a few cream/white added was told by the man in the shop that you always get this if you order white flowers told him I was not happy he said the owner would ring me back no one did so I rang them I was very annoyed, finally spoke to the owner who said because I had upset the assistant she would not supply what I had ordered and she said she already had my money so she did not care because I paid by Debit Card.Even if the flowers had been correct you would not pay £25,I would have been better off buying from M&S.

after recommendations from friends I used occasion flowers to send flowers to my girlfriend, they…read morearrived in good time and judging by her reaction(I'm not usually a flowers guy) they did an amazing job, I'm in the good books for a good while yet, thank you very much to the two women I spoke on the phone too and all involved

The West One is a nice retail park in the Salford/Eccles area, I'm going to share the embarrassing…read moremoment that I actually came here by mistake, through making a left turn which I should have made 150 yards or so later according to my sat nav, I was quite impressed at the retail park as it was quite nice, even having a WHsmith to its-name, which seem to be in every shopping mall, every station, every airport, every town centre but still they seem to shy away from retail parks from some bizarre reasoning. It is located just off Junction 2 of the M602 motorway and is quite close to Trafford Park and Old Trafford and even the Lowry Outlet mall, all around one or two miles away. There are a few big names here such as Home Bargains, WHSMITH, Subway and The Carphone Warehouse, still the retail park is only small compared to others, it still is quite decent, quite satisfactory however nothing more than that, I'm sorry to report. It is also a shame this retail park doesn't seem to be making a name for its-self to make it more of a place to visit, through not having a website, there are numerous fast food chains here, as I recall there is both a Subway and a Mcdonald's, two of the largest fast food chains in the world which seem to always not be far from each other, where you can often find them in the same complex. There is also quite a large "Range" store here but that's about it really. The location of this retail park is interesting, with so much around it so it probably isn't the best place to go and shop but still it is quite nice and I do feel it has done enough to earn at least a high two star rating.

West one is the retail park in Salford. On this retail park there are some fest food restaurants…read moresuch as McDonald's subway. There is plenty of parking. There are still a few units empty.

Hello In was in your store today, looking for a particular…read moreitem "Perkier Cereal Bars" . After mooching round, and having no luck, I approached Keith, who was stacking shelves. he couldn't have been more helpful, he checked on his little "computer" . He found them on there, but apparently there weren't any in store, he checked a number of flavours, but to no avail, it then came up "No Location" which Keith explained they may be a new product that just hasn't arrived at Tesco yet,. Although I was unable to purchase my "Perkier Bars" I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to Keith, he is a credit to your store, and shows what customer service is all about.

A standard Tesco offering. Theres a convenient cafe, cash machines and some good offers. Outside of…read morethat, theres nothing special, to do your main shop here seems overpriced nowadays.

Bolton Market Place is the main shopping centre in Bolton town centre, it isn't too bad for a small…read moretown and they have spent time/money on improving the centre and making it nice. Retailers located here include Boots, Clarks, JD Sports, Next and Vision Express. There is a much larger selection of shops on the high street, outside of the shopping centre, but I always prefer indoor centres especially on the cold, rainy days which we get more of our fair share of in England! My favourite area of the shopping centre is "The Vaults", which is the basement of the shopping centre. They've made it look very nice, with the exposed brickwork and it is also home to restaurants including Nando's and Prezzo. There is also a cinema within the mall from, Light Cinema. More recently, the mall is being used by the Bolton GP Federation and the NHS to provide COVID-19 vaccinations, I love this idea as it is helping the local community have easy access to vaccinations in the town centre. Many empty units sadly... it is such a shame to see as this mall really does have potential. Despite being rather empty, it still has a nice feel to it and the mall security to feel safe. 3*

A few months on and more improvement, they deserve another star!…read more Things are looking up for the market place and they are slowly transforming it into a place you'd want to spend your time. Football season is over for me which means Saturday's are now free again - the missus loves that - that also means I am open to be dragged around shopping centres each weekend now.. It was FA Cup final day however and luckily she does like Football so we decided instead of a trip to Manchester, we'd venture into Bolton and see what the developments were looking like. Definitely an improvement on my last visit a few month ago, and we spent just under 2 hours here on Saturday, which 5 years ago you just simply couldn't do! The 'Vaults' are open and starting to have more and more going on there, so far: Prezzo, Nandos and Great Ale are in there but Chef's Quarter and couple more offerings are in the works. The best thing about this visit was seeing the weekend markets! The market place has not had individual market stall since I was a wee kipper - so a good 15 years and it's great see them bringing back the old school approach even with the new modern building!

Great family run gift shop with amazing friendly atmosphere, great choice of items. More businesses…read morelike this needed in Walkden. Love the candles and incense. Great quality products.

Definitely the best shop in Manchester! I have been visiting for a number of years now and always…read morehave a great experience. Clouds stock crystals, candles, fairies, incense and so much more. If you get the chance, you should definitely check this shop out.

(Pictures available on my google review). I needed a corner couch of specific sizing and the usual…read morewell-known furniture shops did not have the right combination I needed. I decided to look for a local place which could make custom sofas - pricey but was sure the premium would be worth it. I found Newman & Bright website, it looked convincing so I took the time to go their store and see some sofas. What was on display was good enough. I specified the needed sofa with Rafi, paid the 50% deposit (£1,492.50) and excitedly awaited delivery date. The service over the phone was appalling - demanding remaining 50% before delivery despite being told at first to pay after delivery. Anyway - paid the remaining 50% and sofa arrived. At this stage - the attitude I had experienced told me I really had no option but to live with the very bad quality sofa that was delivered. It was nowhere near the quality of what was on display. I have a new, similar, excellent sofa from Sofology at the cost of £2500 (good value) and I managed to get rid of the hideous Newman & Bright sofa for free £100.

From the owner: Newman & Bright is a custom leather sofa manufacturer that specialises in designing and creating…read moreChesterfield sofas. These include Patchwork Chesterfield sofas, Italian sofas and fabric classics.