This particular Coop is HUGE by Coop standards. The best feature is the car park at the rear, which…read moreis very useful for multi shopping down Crwys road. I personally go to the local butchers first for some really great meat then pick up all the other shopping needs from the Coop and because it's opposite the student accommodation there's always a good deal on the alcohol. The Coop is very useful as it is much larger than other stores, so you can actually do a full shop there and the prices are also very reasonable because it's a Coop. This Coop has some useful features:- ATM (Cashpoint) Beers, Wines and Spirits Lotto Online PayPoint Photo Booth Photocopier

This is one of my favourite Co-op food stores because it is so much bigger than most of the others…read more This means that they have room to stock a broader range of products that aren't usually available at other outlets. I love the Co-op Acacia honey, but I'm hard pressed to find it at the inner city stores. They also do a better selection of bread here, with some great healthful seeded options that again I struggle to buy elsewhere. It's a busy shop, especially in the early evenings, and so there can sometimes be a queue at the check-out. It also means that if you call in at around 8.00pm some of the more popular daily items (particularly bread and salad bags etc) have sold out, and so I recommend a mid afternoon visit if possible. Although, one benefit to shopping here mid evening is that they usually have a good selection of perishables that have been discounted quite heavily. I have been known to fill my fruit bowl, and my veg rack from a mid evening visit!

I like the store very much and it's staff are always very polite and helpful.it's also got a wide…read moreselection of sandwiches and also wraps as well.they also sell newspapers and magazines as well.and a lot of sweets and chocolate.and they also sell alcohol as well.

The One Stop' is a convenience store situated on the Esplanade in Porthcawl underneath the bottle…read morebank appartments. The store is reasonably big, and offers the usual corner shop selection of magazines, booze, sweets and snacks. They also have a better selection of fruit and veg and ready meals then most corner shops. There is a machine where you can buy coffee (although you can get a far better takeaway coffee on the other side of the road) and some freshly baked goods. One stop is a Tesco brand, and personaly I would much prefer it if this was a Tesco metro/ extra. They don't stock any Tesco brands in store, as the one stop brand helps people to forget that Tesco is attempting World Domination! Service, staff and stock are fine - and it's handy if you can get a space outside. All in all nothing special though. There is a cashpoint outside which is handy.

Tesco Express Creigiau has far more than you would imagine…read more The shelfs are always stocked with a large variant of items, from fresh veg and flowers, to cake making ingredients and even vegetarian quorn. The store has two self checkout tills which makes for a very speedy shopping trip.

This is a small friendly supermarket in a village outside Cardiff. It is well used by the locals as…read morebus services are infrequent and not everyone has their own car. By the time you add on the cost of petrol to get to a larger supermarket, it is worth paying the slightly higher prices in this store. The staff are all locals and most have been there since the store opened. Tesco's obviously made a commercial decision to open in this village, but it is one that is much appreciated by those living here. It has free parking for about a dozen cars, but that is sufficient as many of their customers are pedestrians. The village post office is also located inside the store.

This store is located a little ways out of town, and is convenient if you live in Fairwater, but is…read morefar enough away from the major Cardiff routes to mean that it's unlikely to enjoy too much passing trade. It is one of three Londis shops in the Fairwater area, and like the others I have found it to be really well stocked. The fact that it's off the beaten track is not really an issue. This is an incredibly popular shop, which is most likely due to the fact that the nearest supermaket is a Somerfield located about two miles away. I love Londis stores for a whole host of reasons, the main one being that Londis is a franchise like Spar and the Life Style convenience stores, and so they are owned as independent businesses, and are not to be confused with supermarket chains. The essential and important difference is that supermarkets make their profits for the organisation, whereas shops like Londis are profitable for the individual owners. I can often buy things cheaper here than I can at Tesco's. I find it interesting that we have all bought into the fallacy that Supermarkets sell things cheaper. It's just not true in many instances! There's no denying that the massive supermarket chains indulged in a price war to kill off their smaller competitors, but when they felt that they had done as much damage as possible, they allowed their prices to steadily rise, allowing them to make more profit per customer. Perhaps what they didn't reckon with is that shops like Spar and Londis were going to preserve a lot more independently owned convenience stores than they thought. Not only is this competition essential to keep the larger stores in line, but it also means that local convenience stores have access to larger bulk buying discounts, thus often making them more able to undercut the big boys! Because Londis shops are all franchises, they can if they want, participate in national promotions, and offer discounted items for a period of three weeks. Not every Londis shop is the same. Being independently owned means that the proprietor of each shop can buy in stock that is culturally relevant to the local area in which they trade. This has to be seen as a distinct advantage Londis has over its larger rivals, but the main benefit to the local communities which they serve is that when locals shop at Londis they are making an investment in the future! A friend told me an interesting statistic the other day... apparently 80% of the money spent at supermarkets leaves the local economy whereas 80% of the money spent at independent stores remains within circulation locally, which is great if it's true! If high percentages of money leave a localised area, then impoverishment will eventually ensue. So, to retain 80% of the money you spend within the area in which you live means the opposite!

A slightly larger than average "Convenience Store" size of Co-op, at the end of the main approach…read moreto Llandaf station. It sells the usual range of groceries, wines, beers and spirits, and tobacco. There's a paypoint, Lottery sales point, ATM, and they take the NUS Extra card.

twice in one week now I've bought co-ops own food. A chicken and bacon sandwich and a chicken…read moreslice. Both times I bought it for lunch, the sandwich was essentially a mayo sandwich, with no bacon and a single lump of chicken in the corner. I've literally just eaten the chicken slice and the only filling I found was right at one side and even that wasn't full. I've now become sick enough of it to actually make a comment on it but it's ridiculous. Especially given how over priced the meal deals are. From now on I'll cop lunch from the bargain booze because at least the price matches the quality of the food. Other than that staff are lovely and the shop is clean and well stocked. Just a shame

I wouldn't even give this place one star unless I had too. Its not that I'm some sort of snob and…read morehate Lidl's, I actually like a lot of their stuff which is why I went in there. But really this shop is like a hell hole. You certainly see a lot of characters in there shall we say. One was being removed by the security man the last time I was in there! The check out staff, when they are actually on the checkout are just quite rude and dismissive. Yes if its the only option its better than nothing but thats about it.

Laughable as it may be, Lidl's is a handy place for a man on his own and on a budget. Generally…read morestocking non brand cheaper food from other countries, it can be conceived that they lack in quality. I would say that that's true of under half of the food on offer here. The meat here is great, a lot of European spicy meat can be found here, as can lobsters and crabs if your feeling a little fancy. I normally cook spaghetti meatballs with a chopped bacon Bolognese, all for the measly sum of about £5. There's also a great selection of wine here and without sounding like a wino, most of the stuff my lovely and I try there and is very reasonable in price. The only problem I really have of the store is that there's only ever one checkout open and cause a long wait for no reason at all.

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!

I have known the manager/owner Dennis Trounce and his son Mark ever since moving to Penarth with my…read morelate wife, Angela, in 1998. I visit the store most days usually because I need to stock up on something I have forgotten! All the staff are very friendly and I have to say it has a real village store feel about it. As the previous review stated there is a good range of items for a convenience store and it is only a short distance from my house. Keep up the good work you are very much appreciated. Best wishes, Nigel

This is a smashing branch of Spar, in fact I would probably use it over and above the branch on…read moreWindsor road. The store itself is really quite cluttered and messy, with stock all over the place, but it has everything you could ever need from a conveience store and its worth a visit just because the staff are so nice and frankly quite funny too! The location is great especially for people in the victoria area and much quicker to get to than a walk into town. The great thing too is that it is open until 10pm every night ,even sundays!