Great selection of goods on offer…read more The fresh food bar is superb. Can get sandwiches and full dinners. Also have a butchers. The shop is packed full. They even have Quest bars at the tills for all the fitness junkies. I have never seen these before in a local shop like this. So good. The downside is that it's a small space inside to for so much product. The outside is also tight for parking etc.

For me Carlises ffresh food was a bit of an innovator, as many petrol stations have been imitating…read moreits style in recent times.It has now become fashionable for petrol stations to have stores that are more like mini supermarkets than basic conveinience stores, whcih is something I would credit with this store. The store has a wide and varied range with a large section of every area you would expect from a supermarket.The store also has a really large deli ham and meats section which is very good, and the store has the lottery and paypoint so people cant get their bills paid whilst out on their shop. The store also has its own off lisence outside on top of the petrol and home fuels that are available, so in this once area, a lot of shopping can get done!

I rarely review supermarkets, especially ones that I rarely frequent. I go to Asda about twice a…read moreyear. I'd read that this store was burnt out in this town a few months ago, so the folks in charge of the company right now have opened another store beside the charcoal shell. The supermarket chain, which is worth around seven billion pounds, is being bought and sold by big players in the market with TDR Capital LLP buying the shares owned by billionaire Moshin Issa last month. Moshin left his wife for an employee of EY Manchester. This fractured the relationship with his brother Issa. While it's bright and spacious I assume it's a temporary fix as it's like a giant hard canvas and steel structure, and fair play to them for providing a service to their customers. I called in to buy carrots as the preferred snack for a fussy Bichon Frieze and a dizzy mini dachshund. The carrots were 65 pence a kilo, the same price of M&S. I also got a few packs of seedless red grapes (99 pence for 375gm) from Egypt and 2 cartons of four Spanish nectarines again 99 pence a carton. The in-store staff are real mega friendly and undoubtedly mostly minimum wage to support the lifestyles of billionaires.

This asda is situated just off the main road in Downpatrick and is surrounding by other popular…read moreshops such as Argos and Halfords. The shop itself is well staffed and the staff are always polite helpful and will go out of their way to assist. The store is often busy due to its reasonable prices and location therefore i would recommend you shop in the evening or during the week to avoid the weekend rush. The store is well laid out, always stocked and prices are always clearly marked. This asda is definitely the grocery hub of Downpatrick. There is more than ample car-parking in the area although at the weekend spaces can be limited.

This is a fairly new Tesco superstore. I used to go to the Tesco Extra in Lisburn prior to this one…read moreopening. Although it isn't as big or with as wide a range as the Lisburn store, it still has pretty much everything you could need. The store is always clean and tidy and the shelves well stocked. Lots of parking outside too.

The new Tesco store is much bigger than we all had anticipated…read more It's great to be able to buy chart CDs and DVDs in the town.

Sprucefield opened its carpark in 2003, bringing in the biggest Sainsbury store in the country…read more However, there was a bit of a problem due to planning and various objections so Sainsbury's should have been in N.I 8 years previously. And so far, the shop is yet to cement itself into the N.I shopping calender. Perhaps it is that there are only a handful of stores around the country, or perhaps it has something to do with an unearthed national hatred of Sainsbury's partron and all round healthy Jamie Oliver. Nevertheless, it is not a regular grocery visit for many people. This I cannot really understand. The store is huge. Both it and B&Q are considered the "anchor tents" or the big major shops to non-building folks. Yet any time I've been here, this store always seems strangely quiet. Tescos, Asda and even to an extent M&S have found themselves embraced by the NI shopping fanatics, yet this store always seems to be trying to beg people to come in, and very few do. This is nothing to do with the store itself. It is s terrific spot for shopping. The food is great, particularly the fresh meat and the staff are always more than obliging to help you. Although the prices are a smidgen above the prices of Tescos or Asda, it is a very nice shop to be in and the restaurant that they have is always well stocked and the food is as good as you are going to get for a restaurant in a shop. The clothing end is fashionable and the cds and dvds are all up-to-date and occassionally very cheap. I think Sainsbury's has quite a long way to go before people really trust it and accept it over Tesco or Asda. Poundland has only come to NI a year or two ago and people have really taken to it. Perhaps no-one will ever take to Sainsbury's. I can't really work out why, but I'm going to blame Jamie Oliver.

This Sainsburys store is massive. It's like an airport hanger full of every kind of grocery you…read morecould need. The fact that it's about 15-20 minutes outside of the city centre means that it's only really people passing on the motorway that would stop in for a shop, or people living nearby. The store offers a huuuuge deal of selection. I dropped in with some friends recently as we had driven up from Dundalk to acquire the makings of some mojito cocktails and some scrumptious food for dinner. It was very handy for us coming off the motorway and there were miles of parking spaces available. The staff were friendly and helpful too, no complaints there. This store also stock clothing and homewares. An epic store for it's sheer size.

Was in Drogheda tescos extra today staff do nothing g but talk to there friends for a good period…read moreof a time and have customers waiting. Then there was a chap with a disability no talk no comment just served them. I think staff need to be trained on how they treat people people with disabilities are been x communities In society this is called prejudice and discrimination. Shouldn't be allowed and they need to set up an autism area in each store to help with this issue.

So if you're coming here from abroad, beware, because while this Tesco may stock an excellent…read morechicken-and-stuffing sandwich, they will also refuse to take virtually any credit card from the USA (and likely a good number of other places outside the UK and Ireland). When we heard here of the prevalence of the "Chip and PIN" system here, we were super worried and braved awful ATM fees to withdraw cash down the way. Per Chase/British Airways: "Further, customers in the United States traveling outside the U.S. are not required to obtain a PIN. Merchants in Europe (or other countries) are required to: - Accept all cards with magnetic stripe - Honor all cards bearing the Visa/ MasterCard brand mark if they accept MasterCard - Accept magnetic stripe as well as chip cards, even in markets that are evolving to 100% chip card local issuance You should urge the merchant to insert the card into the terminal and follow the prompts. The terminal will automatically request a signature. If the merchant insists on not accepting the card, please call us at the number listed on the back of your card, to report the merchant name and address. " The folks at the store were very nice and may have been scared by various tactics used at the outset of Chip-and-PIN stuff (see the Wikipedia article) into refusing our card, but apparently it's a legal no-no, and we'd like to prevent other visitors from having to go through the rigamarole that we did.

I bought mixed mince beef and pork by mistake. I thought was beed only as I don't eat pork. 25 mins…read morelater I went back to the store and wanted exchange to beef. The staff at the customer service refuses to exchange it and claim that it's against their 20mins policy returning fresh food because needs kept in a cold temperature. I was 5 mins late and as far as kept in a cold temperature concern, the weather was 1 degree outside. I've asked to speak to the manager to explain the situation. The staff made a speaker tunnel call 3 times and no one came. waitted 15 mins still no manager. I went home and I give the mince beef and pork to someone who will benefit from it. I have been shopping from this store for 26 years. I spend £700 per month there. I have very happy that Tesco are down £700 per month because I won't never ever go back there. I

Been in the shop once when it first opened years ago and it was a good size and seemed to sell…read moreeverything! The staff where all friendly and helpful, I never completed a full shop but just some snacks for a road trip but I got served quite quickly and the staff were good, no idea what easy it has been maintained a few years on