Marks and Spencer at the Ventura Retail Park is an impressive and expansive department store, with…read moreits own sizeable car park. This store has a vast range of clothing including Per Una, Blue Harbour and Limited Collection to name but a few. Due to the sheer size of the store there is an impressive selection of each. It also has a good range of homeware too, including duvets, settees and dinner sets. There is a branch of M&S Money instore, as well as a sizeable area devoted purely to returns and exchanges. None of the items at M&S you could describe as cheap, but the overall quality is high. This store also has a generous sized cafe selling a good range of hot and cold drinks. In addition there are also scones, pastries, slices of cake and few hot dishes like toasted sandwiches and breakfast muffins. The coffee is of a decent quality, but be warned the large sized cups are huge! The electronic devices that herald the arrival of your hot food, are a contant source of amusement too! The final icing on the cake is the large food hall, to the side of the store, with its own portion of car park. This is the biggest M&S food hall I've been in, and the range of food and other products is striking. Ok, so the food is much more expensive than most supermarkets, however, on the whole the food is tasty and inspires me to get back into the kitchen. Overall a great store, that is a bit of a honeypot for local shoppers.

Situated in Ankerside shopping centre this is a good place to go to stock up your freezer. They…read morequite often do deals on party food , or barbecue food so great if you are entertaining for a large group. I find they are great for frozen stuff - but I would not do my full shop here as the other items tend to be dearer elsewhere and poor in choice. Its not a one-stop shop in the way that ASDA is for example. I go once a month and fill up my freezer with all the bargains. The location is ideal - right next to the car park so you do not have to carry bags far. If you are non-driver like me (useless I know - and very much another story) then they also do free delivery on spends of over £25 which is really useful. Again my only real gripe is the size of the place, its aisles are very narrow. Its ok when quite but on a saturday or on market day its just vile!!! I hate queues and I hate fighting for space with several elbows to get to the freezers.

Ideally located near the car park and shopping centre ice land has some really good products at…read morecheaper prices. They do a lot of things like chicken that you can cook from frozen for £2 a bag so it's a lot of saving on regular chicken you get from Asda and places that are £7 a tub!!! Ice cream and desserts are also cheap and they have some top branded names . Definitely worth a visit even if its just to get a few bits!

Great little shop, been there for donkies years!…read more Wouldn't recommend for regular shopping but good for picking up the paper or latest mag. Has low choice BUT a bit of every category so if you run out your not stuck.

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this is no longer lewises, but select and save. they have extended their shop, which now includes…read morethe post office.