I'm a massive fan of TK Maxx, so see my reviews for comparison of them against each other on a…read morestore-by-store basis! TK Maxx in Barnsley is well located in the Alhambra centre, although you do have to pay for parking. It is quite a small branch compared to some of their other stores, and it is of the older style of decor so looks a bit more dated and rather like the jomble sale that so many people compare it to. There aren't many cash desks and each has an individual queue rather than the communal queues you get in their newer stores - so if someone in front of you needs a price, you're stuck! Plenty of bargains to be had though, and always worth a visit.

TK MAXX is a great store if you have time on your hands. Be prepaired to search through the many…read morerails for a good designer find. Plenty of great finds, the ideal place for gift buying. O'neil, drunken monkey,diesel clothing for men is always highly stocked. Make great birthday or christmas presents for the other half or my brother. instead of the rrp of £25 i pay just £12.50 and get two instead! Also great for beauty products. Often find elizabeth arden, clarins, Roc items. Great designer sunglasses such as roberto cavalli, D&G,valentino. Im sure the staff do their best to keep the store tidy, But things are often in the wrong place. or something missing. Just have patience when in the store

This is a M&S Clearance store, so totally different from the normal High Street branches…read more Everything instore is discounted - often heavily, and it's a bit messier than a normal store, but that makes it all the better for bargain hunting in! Some items are pretty poor, either with very little discount or really badly designed and you can see why they're cheap. But there are some real gems there and you can get some complete bargains. I got a gorgeous pair of chocolate winter cords the other day for £2.99, a kids hoodie for £1.99 and a bra for 99p. Look out for the rails of final clearance stock - these are the best value. They have fitting rooms like normal M&S stores, and the staff at the checkouts are always very friendly and polite as you'd expect. They mainly have womens clothing, with different ranges including Per Una and lingerie. There is a decent mens section as well, and a small childrenswear area to the back beside the fitting rooms. They so sell some homewares but only minimal and it is mostly towels, pot pourri and that sort of thing. This shop and Next clearance are the main reasons that a lot of people bother making a trip to the outlet in the first place. If M&S wasn't there I know I wouldn't bother half as often. Highly recommended for bargain hunters!

My wife is always dragging me to Lakeside (the Yorkshire Outlet) just to go to this shop. The 5*…read morerating is therefore based more on her opinion than mine! It's good mainly because it's cheap. There's nowhere near the selection you get in the normal M&S stores, but what they do have is discounted quite a bit off the normal store price. They also have 'special purchase' items which are only sold in their outlet stores, sometimes because they're slightly lesser quality, other timesjust because! The best bit is the clearance section that you find at the back of the store. I got a pair of work trousers in there for £2.99 that had originally been £45, and they're really good quality. Also lots of kids things in there for 50p and £1, so it's well worth a good look. Great for pressies for elderly aunties!

Marks and Spencer is one of those truly British brands, from the Food Hall to clothes, they're…read moresurely a big name with huge, anchor stores around the country, this is another example of that stereotype, being one of the anchor stores of the Meadowhall of Sheffield, being towards the end of the mall it provides one of the linkways between the Meadowhall Interchange, basically forcing you to cut through here to get the train, or one of two tram stations which serve the largest shopping centre in the Yorkshire and Humber region of England, the other of course being Debenhams. It also surprises me that after 16 reviews which were merged onto Yelp originally from Qype this place has been unreviewed in nearly a whole decade, with no reviews yet actually written on the Yelp platform. The staff here seemed really friendly, but I find this to be usually typical of Marks and Spencer, a staff member even offered to help me out of the store where I was going, I found the layout and signage fairly confusing especially considering the fact there are many ways to get in, and out of the store. The store felt like a typical Marks and Spencer, product ranges were okay and this was one of the larger and better stores in the shopping mall, and for me, this would have warranted a solid three-star rating, but I'm pleased to say the service going the extra mile, makes this one of the better Marks and Spencer stores despite having a confusing layout, with the signs offering more harm than good, sending me into the changing rooms on search for the exit. 4*

On a recent business trip to Sheffield the quickest path between the main part of the Meadowhall…read moreCentre and the hotel was through M&S. I must have gone through that shop ten times over two days, and each and every time I couldn't help but grimace at the appalling clothes on display. Quite how M&S consistently manage to ruin perfectly good fabrics with such awful designs I cannot fathom, and yet the shops somehow survive and flourish all over the country. Their food is lovely, though. Bizarre.

You can pick up some really good bargins here,but it can take you ages to actually find anything…read moresuitable,there are huge rows of clothes and they are nearly all just one or two of each item ,the sizes usually are all mixed up aswell so it can be dificult browsing ,Iv been here before and found a designer skirt for just a couple of pound ,but ive also been here and looked through row after row and not found anything at all ,so if you have the time and are after a bargin it is worth coming here The toys here are excellent value,they are a good price anyway ,but if you come when they have sales on then you really can pick up amazing bargins,every year I always intend to buy next years presents in the sales,but to date ,I never have any money left in january

Ok, so I wrote the review below a few days ago based on previous knowledge. I'll leave it there, as…read moreit was my opinion at the time, but I'm going to add an edit at the bottom Doncaster TK Maxx is one of the better ones. I think the management there are quite strict because the staff always seem to be hardworking, and the place is quite tidy. It's in the retail park on Wheatley Hall Road so there's plenty of free parking although it does get busy at weekends. They've recently improved the access/exits to try and cut down on congestion - last Saturday before Christmas will show whether or not it has worked! The store has an excellent range of designer goods at unbelievable prices, as do all TKMs but this one makes it a little easier to find what you're looking for as it is a little tidier. Watch out for the returns policy - max 14 days and you MUST have a receipt or you're stuffed. EDIT: I was in this TK Maxx yesterday and it was absolutely appalling. The place was a complete and utter tip - I don't mean a usual TK Maxx jumble-sale style tip, I mean an absolute earthquake struck tip. You could hardly get the trolley through the aisles, especially in the handbags, toys and menswear. There were only 2 tills open with about 6 people in the queue at each, and each waiting for a price for an item (not surprising as there were LOADS of things without prices in the shop, and no visible staff on the shopfloor). I was told to go to the service desk to pay, but when I got there it was unmanned. When someone eventually arrived, she had the most un-customer-focussed attitude I've come across since I'd been in TK Maxx Cheadle (don't start me on that one!), and was totally unfriendly. I had two items without prices among my pickings. The first was a wooly hat that I'd picked out of a heap of rubble in the menswear clearance section. She sent someone off to find a price while I waitedand waitedand waited. Eventually this person reappeared and said they couldn't find anything similar. So I was told there wasn't a price available. She said she'd have to phone round all the other stores until she could find one the same because we can't guess, you know. Lol. She gave me a red pen and a red piece of paper off the till roll to write my phone number on - great idea. I used my own black pen, but haven't had the call about the price. Perhaps she's still ringing around The second item was a little baby book which I'd picked up off the floor in the mess that was the toy department. Now, we're talking about a book with half a dozen cardboard pages, about 3 square, with a little bit of rubber at the top like a teether. Perhaps a quid or two, maybe double that if you bought it in a posh shop. Mrs Super-service decided it must be part of a set but duly despatched her trusty sidekick to get a price. About 10 minutes later, the phone rang. She came back and said that the book was £9.99!!! I said that I thought they couldn't make it up, and she said they'd found another the same. Complete and utter ballax. It wasn't a 'designer' name, it was a little book with pictures and ABCs in it, for babies. I asked her if I could see the other book with the price on it, but she declined and made some carp excuse about the girl being on a break now. Hmmm, surprising. Or maybe it was because she was talking out of her backside. So, excuse the rant, but beware that the service in Doncaster has gone downhill big-time.

This Matalan is pretty big and has a really wide range of stuff…read more It's on the Wheatley Hall Road retail park, so it's generally easy to park and there have been recent improvements so there's less congestion in/out of the car park (although I'm not sure how much of an effect that's had), and this store is the only one that I know of on the park with toilets! I'm not the biggest fan of the own-brand clothing in Matalan - I think it is a bit cheap and nasty, but they also sell brand names too, not designer, but generally good quality. These are discounted a bit and although probably not the cheapest they're generally good prices. Good for homewares although better if you're just browsing and picking up the odd thing than looking for something in particular as they have a wide range of products but very little choice in each category.

Matalan is a bit of cheap-man's Marks & Spencer. They have the same departments, but at lower…read moreprices and usually lesser quality. They also sell so-called 'designer' brands, but these are generally just High Street names which had over-inflated prices in the first place. I bought a suitcase from them a few years ago which promptly fell to bits first time it was used, so I avoid their luggage like the plague now. Their homewares are ok, not bad prices, and the clothing is not too bad for the price you pay. Good retail park, lots of parking, although it is a bit of a bottle neck at busy times.

This store has just undergone a refit and looks wonderful, many known brands on offer including…read moreOakley, Ray ban, D&G, Prada etc. The staff were well turned out, very friendly and helpful, they knew so much about the glasses and helped me make the right choice to suit my face shape etc. All in all a wonderful shopping experience and the glasses are all reasonably priced.

I love these old House of Fraser stores - they're just so dated inside, it reminds me of being a…read morekid and getting dragged round by my parents, and the old fashioned lifts which had an operator in them! Sadly you have to press the button yourself now, and there have been some half-baked attempts at modernisation in places but on the whole, this is the nearest thing you'll find in town to a traditional department store. This store is a step above Debenhams, and a step below the proper designer stores but a good place to look if you're searching for something nice. Their sales are good, and their own brand, Linea, is generally good quality. Parking is non-existant for this shop, you've got to find a space on street, or in one of the car parks and it can make it more bother than it's worth so sadly it's a shop I don't visit as often as I would like, but if you're in town anyway and feeling flush it's worth a look.

This is a much smaller version of the Meadowhall shop. Up the escalators and its half the floor…read more(unfortunately it has to share space with Topman otherwise it could be much bigger). It offers a good selection of the popular ranges, its rather crowed looking in order to pack in as much as possible. The rails are always full and need to look at everything as there could be a lot of odd pieces at the back. The size ranges is ok, often the largest size they have is UK 14. It is good as a second shop and there is enough to look through but the main shop is in Meadowhall. A Good shop overall with friendly staff, offers a good selection too.

Coming Home, Means coming to Topshop for me! i Love the fargate topshop almost as much as i love…read morethe stuff in it! What you first notice about it, it the fact you go up a flight of staires to it which i like as it makes it seem more exclusive. The layout is quite warehouse-style like which i also like.