There are two shopping centres in Northampton, and this is the larger of them. It's on 2 floors for…read morethe shopping, and then you can (sort of) get to the carparking using the lifts from within the shopping centre as well. I say sort of because the car parking there is a nightmare it's kind of split between two different sections and is really confusing if you don't know what you're doing. The shops are well to be honest a bit ordinary, all the places you'd expect to find and very little else boots, smiths, various clothes shops etc. The sort of places you find on most highstreets anywhere. There's nothing to make the place stand out. The market outside the doors is more interesting and now they're talking of removing most of that so poor old Northampton will loose half their market for some giant viewing screen or some nonsense.

The Grosvenor Centre is situated right in the heart of Northampton and is directly connected to the…read morebus station. As a shopping centre, it isn't a bad place to go with a lot of the big named shops being situated there. The main problem with the centre is the lack of originality with the range of shops on offer, but this is starting to become the case with most shopping centres now and it's rare to find an original gem of a shop on a high street or shopping centre. When you leave the centre this also takes you either right on to the market square or on to the main shopping high street. Unfortunately, it could do with a bit of an upgrade as far as the decor is concerned as it does look somewhat out-dated, which does let it down quite badly.

This is one of the smaller branches of a quality chain of department stores…read more Beatties has recently been taken over by House of Frasier, but I don't know if this store has yet been re-branded. Layout, selection, displays etc are the high standard you'd expect of a quality department store; unfortunately selection is very limited due to it's size Has the best stocked habidashery department in the whole of Northampton

Beatties is a really nice department store that sells good quality items and has a really good…read morerange of products. They sell similar ranges to BHS and Marks and Spencers such as clothing and accessories, homewares and soft furnishings, gifts and seasonal items, but they also have fantastic cosmetics and perfume counters where you can get advice on skin care and make up and I believe that they do some demonstrations too. They often sell gift sets that are unavailable in other stores. The clothing ranges are split into departments for differnent ranges and designers and they offer clothing designers suitable for all age ranges. The store is a large one which has two floors accessible by an escalator. There is free parking in the Grosvenor centre where it is situated and the store can be accessed through two separate entrances. The store is nicely laid out and although some of the items may be a bit more expensive than smaller stores, they often sell things that you cannot get in other stores and it is a great place to pick up a variety of goods, so fantastic for Christmas shopping.

My trip to pick up my too good to go order was a waste of time and a 20 minute journey as I was…read moretold when I arrived they had none today. Very annoying that I wasn't notified in advance. Other users of this platform do that. So, now I also have the hassle of applying for a refund.

morrison's as a store offers great value for money. the food isn't the quality of M&S or Waitrose,…read morebut the goods are great for the price you pay this branch of morrison's is not their finest. queues at the checkouts are often excessive. staff are rude in my experience. when i once asked a member of staff if another checkout could be opened as i needed to be somwhere, i was told you should have got here earlier. i took the complaint to the company's head office but didn't receive any feedback

Even though this is a really small shopping centre it used to contain quite a few good shops and…read morewas worth a visit, but on my last trip to Northampton a few weeks ago I went in there and half of the shops are now empty. The best shop in there is probably Next but this is a really small branch and do not offer the same selection as most of the other branches. There is a small Dorothy Perkins and a couple of other clothes shops and a Clinton Cards which is a good store, but other than that the choice is very limited and I would stick to the Grosvenor Centre where you get a much better selection. There is a lovely cafe in here though which is open plan and serves really nice food and drinks at good prices, so it is worth popping in for something to eat as the main Grosvenor Centre doesn't really have any small cafes like this. This was once a nice small centre but it has gone downhill with the closure of shops. It lacks atmosphere and just looks drab and dreary and is not really worth bothering with much these days.

People moaning about the Grosvenor centre obviously haven't been to Peacock Place. This really is…read moreeverything that is poor about shopping centres. There is no 'thru traffic' (no car park, no bus station..) and hence there is insufficient trade to support any decent shops, for any reasonable length of time. As such, it is a white elephant. Tiny, with no reason to enter it, the best thing about Peacock Place is it's name. Oh, and the fountains are quite nice. In essence it's a small, dark shopping arcade into which there is no reason to enter. As such, it has always suffered and presumably will continue to do so. The entrance is on the old market square, which is very pleasant.

Should have waited to stop at Watford Gap! Northbound side had very little choice. Ended up in…read moreMcDonalds and no staff could understand English and therefore not understand when I ask for no onion in my food...