I visit this shop weekly. I buy my Lotto tickets here and sometimes a paper. There is an internet…read morecafe and photocopy machine. Its a bit cramp inside. The staff can be friendly but catch them on a busy day and they won't even look at you. It sells booze has well!

This is a good local convenience store, and also an internet cafe…read more Like most such places. the range of food isn't the most amazing, but you can pick up an emergency loaf of bread, can of soup or beans and the like,. useful if everything else is shut. At the back, there is a sizeable internet cafe with prices starting from 50p for 15 minutes.

Horrible staff - This young man refused selling my daughter a beer on her 18th birthday and was…read morevery rude about it asking her to "get out of the store". My family are loyal patrons and this has ruined our night - In future we will not come back and we will tell all our friends and family to take their business elsewhere. It is legal so why are you refusing a sale on her birthday? I am confused and you have lost a loyal customer.

A small general store on Western Road, close to Waitrose, selling basic items of food, newspapers,…read moreconfectionery, tobacco and snacks. They have a chiller cabinet for sandwiches and soft drinks. It's right by a busy bus stop, so gets lots of passing trade, and the staff seem good at offering quick and efficient service.

Yet another Brighton convenience store/corner shop, North Street Food and Wine is a little more…read moreconvenient than most corner shops for me, being directly on my way back home from the North Laine area. I often seem to end up here on my way home, if money's tight, picking up some cheap grub, and for that this store is absolutely fine. Just don't expect anything too fancy: it is just a convenience store. Run by the same people that run All Sorts across the road, North Street Food and Wine is definitely the better of the two shops. They have more on offer, not just booze and magazines, and it can legitimately replace a cheap food shop if you're just looking for microwave pizzas and crisps. I have to admit the occasional horrible food binge: every now and again, food like that is all I really want, making this the right place to go. As stated above, this is a convenience store: don't expect the world from the stock. If you're looking for anything beyond cheap, tasteless snacky bits and pieces, you should be shopping elsewhere. Also, offering lots of cheap food but smacking on a huge card handling fee is not my idea of a fair deal. Especially when it seems to change depending on who's serving... In the end, North Street Food and Wine is convenient and has a larger stock than most convenience stores, so it is a lot better than many of the convenience stores that dot Brighton's shopping landscape. Just don't expect healthy food, or anything out of the ordinary.

This convenience store looks very similar to the one opposite the road(All Sorts? Or All In Here? I…read moreforget...), so I guess they're owned by the same people. If so, then this store is the better of the two (although lacking an internet cafe, but then why would you need another one 30 seconds away?!). Here you'll find your usual array of cheap snack foods, as well as a few basic grocery/household items. They also sell individual fresh fruit pieces, displayed outside, which can be quite handy if you're on the go.

This is a nice, friendly newsagent and off licence on London Road, which always seems to be open…read morewhen other places are shut. They stock a decent range of alcohol, including the oblilgatory two for a fiver bottles of vinegary wine, and are also a great place to pick up a last minute birthday card on the way into town.

Smokemart stocks a lightly bolstered range of tobacco products, with the cigars and the like…read moresitting alongside the usual fair of lighters and cigarettes. It doesn't quite have the range of smokers heaven (which stocks electric grinders) but it sure beats it on its range of magazines. There's about a third of the entire store dedicated to them here! There's a few surprising additions in the form of green and blacks chocolate which come as a surprise, but its not the best layed out I've seen on London Road.

Pop In Shop is really only good for two things: alcohol and snacks. They have a very good snack…read moreselection, including pick n' mix, and ice cream, a good range of wines and spirits, and a large number of fridges filled with a variety of different beers. Other than that though, there isn't much to purchase here. The newspaper and magazine section is absolutely tiny, and there aren't any sandwiches, or really any convenience items.

Pop in Shop seems to be aimed at the drunken streams of night-time West Street goers, than being at…read moreall concerned with providing more useful convenience goods. My boyfriend used to live on this street (alas, no more), and we really couldn't ever find much here. It's steep too as they clearly can get away with it, holding a really prime spot here as the only convenience store on West Street (though you will find others along the sea front, on North Street or towards Churchill Square). Prime items are pick n mix, more sweets, alcohol, nuts, crisps, snacks, and some manky looking sandwiches. I've been caught out a few times trying to by cinema snacks here when heading to Odeon - a fiver goes on a bag of sweets and some nuts.

The Izzy store has a surprisingly good soft drinks selection, offering some items I'd never even…read moreseen before, including some iced teas, and carribean fruit juices. The snack range is also ok, and there is quite a good choice of spirits, but beside these three selling points, there isn't much to recommend. As usual you'll find magazines, newspapers and sandwiches, but besides batteries you won't find many convenience items, and sadly they charge 50p to pay on your card.

This newsagents is a little more touresty than most, with a focus on post cards and other papery…read moreitems. It charges fairly steep prices for the chocolates and treats it offers, while stocking the usual emergency supplies of milk and freezer foods. Gloucester Newsagents only has a small offering of beers to choose from, but plenty of magazines, giving it a daytime feel, rather than emergency night out supplier. All in all, it packs a good amount in to its space, but is a little pricier than you may have come to expect.

This is basically your only option if you live in Maresfield and run out of milk, loo roll, cat…read morefood, chocolate...etc etc! The shop almost has two separate rooms and the contents seems to be a bit all over the place. Having said that, you will probably find what you are looking for here although it may not necessarily be top-notch quality. As well as groceries they also stock newspapers, greetings cards, wrapping paper etc. The sandwiches in the fridge are best to be avoided, and the fruit and veg are a little past their best. However, the family that run the shop are lovely and friendly, and there small baby is normally sat on the counter for you to coo and pull faces at. They also have a photocopier should you live in the village and need one - you never know, its a useful thing to have...