Decent prices, GREAT meal-deals on the food. has a make up counter, cash machine, photo developing,…read morepharmacy, etc. There are usually some good offers on gifts. The staff are friendly and helpful.

Great shop it is very well stocked and the midnight pharmacy is a really helpful and useful…read moreaddition for obvious reasons. The only thing missing is, due to the size of the store it doesn't have premium beauty counters as with the larger stores. The store is well laid out and the staff are helpful and approachable. They are a little bit slow in offering for you to pay at another till when the main till is busy.

Boots on South Road is one of the smaller branches of boots in the area.It does a little bit of…read moreeverything make-up, hair products, baby, diet products. It also has a pharmacy in this branch. As i said it is a small branch which means it is also small in size. It is still very well organised and tidy even though it is small and it is fairly easy to find what you need. The only thing i would like in this branch is the children's clothing but i really don't think there would be space for it.The staff are always pleasant and willing to help you find what you are looking for. Also don't forget to use your boots advantage card to build up your point to buy products.

This is a big store and they stock pretty much everything - from sandwiches to cold & flu capsules…read moreto jewellery and make-up. In fact when I go in here I always turn right towards the "chemist" side rather than left towards the "shopping" side, because it's just too tempting!

This is probably one of the larger Boots stores that you can expect to find and is a prime example…read moreof how they would like their store to look. It's got all the modern features and has a pharmacy (although the advice is not always inspiring), a sandwich section (meal deals hurrah!), perfume counter and photography section. It sells children's clothes and everything else you'd usually expect to find in Boots. The clearance section at the back often has some good buys and the Advantage card machine is always working! It's in a great location for the nearby office workers or tired shoppers who need some pampering products at the end of an exhausting session!

Manchester Souvenirs & News have had locations popping up all over the city of late as the…read morenewsagents' chain look to expand - this is probably one of my favourite stores they have in the city, and I do like it much more than their newer locations at Arndale Centre Exchange Square, Shudehill and Deansgate, as well as their other location at the other side of Piccadilly Gardens. Refurbished of late to include a Post Office, this is one of the latest opening Post Offices in the area which is open from 6 in the morning to 6 in the evening throughout the week, opening a couple of hours later on Sunday and 8 - 8 on Saturday. The Post Office inside this newsagents is all the more important especially with the Town Hall's refurbishment meaning the Post Office there is out of action for now, and this one does seem a little quieter with less queuing compared to the other Post Office in their other store at Piccadilly Plaza. Despite being located in an older building on Mosley Street, close to Primark and Metrolink services, the inside of the store is pretty modern including multiple friendly staff working the store and Post Office checkouts as well as a pretty decent drinks/news selection, although I do find the prices to be a tad higher compared to nearby. 4* - A very innovative idea to add a Post Office into this store after the Town Hall's closer for refurbishment was announced which meant there would still be a Post Office on Mosley Street, while still being a useful store in a good and central location too.

This is a really nice place to do your shopping if the bigger supermarkets are a little too far…read more They have fresh meat and fish counters, plus a great cheese counter. The shop is laid out in a sensible way and you can easily find what you want. As with most Booths supermarkets, eveyone that works there is very helpful.

Wine Cross is your average off licence but with less friendly customer care and service. There are…read morenot really any deals in this place which would drag you away from the supermarket and the actual variety of booze is nothing special either. The staff here don't seem to bothered about the customers and any requests are normally dealt with at a snail's pace followed by the rude questioning of how old you are. The decor is a bit tacky and I have never really felt comfortable inside the store and this is not good at all when you are attempting to peruse the stock. There are thousands of off licences you could visit so to compete you have to stand out and this establishment simply does not at all. On the whole a below par store with poor customer service and a limited range of alcoholic beverages so if I were you I'd pop to bargain booze instead.

ive always loved the peoples attitude that work here , they ARE helpfull and seem lovely people !!…read moreon my wedding day i was given 2 bottles of wine by one of the staff , this shop is open to early hrs , realy convient ,and they have the odd toliet rolls or coffee if needed realy handy shop , they do sell a varity of drinks ,beers , spirits, ect

A good quality local convenience store. Reasonable prices and a great selection of groceries and…read moredrinks.

I've recently been training for the Great Manchester 10k run. As I've been increasing the…read moredistances, I've had to change my route to include areas I normally wouldn't go. Including Ancoats. I wouldn't usually go here mainly because when I first moved to the NQ, it was a bit run down and aside from the occasional visit to the Argos, there was no particular reason to visit that area. Plus, as regular readers of my reviews will know, I tend to be a creature of habit and go to the same places again and again. Well running up and down Great Ancoats Street, and some of the side streets, has opened my eyes to the new places around here. Including Ancoats General Store, which I first noticed 10 days or so ago. When I ran past it last night I made a mental note to myself that I must remember to come here this weekend. And I'm glad I did. It isn't that much bigger than the corner shop I used to frequent as a kid but it fits in so much good stuff. There's fresh bread to greet you as you enter and then the aisles of food to the left. The decor is the kind of decor I've come to expect from hipster type places , with pipes/air conditioning exposed. But, having said that, I'm not sure I'd describe it as hipster. There's the organic ranges, plenty of dairy/gluten free choices but then there's the familiar brands/products that you'd expect in a supermarket/corner shop. They sell magazines too. They sell a good range of alcohol and alcohol accompaniments. I specify the 'alcohol accompaniments' because I noticed a good range of tonics for gin, that you'd not usually expect from a relatively small shop. I noticed a lot of local produce: the bakery providing the bread, the eggs, the milk, just a few examples. Some of the products are priced the same or lower than Tesco/Aldi (the Longley Farm yoghurts are well priced at 35p, for example) and some of the organic/dairy/gluten free stuff was a little pricier but that's the same anywhere. I was chatting to the guy who was on the till and he told me they'd been open for two and a half weeks. They are going to have a cafe and also hold meet the producer type of events, including good and wine tastings. That's the reason I've gone for 4* rather than 5* : it just seems too early to properly rate the place, especially as it seems there's so much more to come. I highly recommend a visit.

It's a coffee shop (with a bar) and a general store, florists, bakery, card shop and they are…read moreplaying postmodern jukebox over the top. I never thought I'd say this about a corner shop...but it's just cool. "Very Northern Quarter" in the nicest possible way.