The Golden Square is quite a nice shopping center, especially for a small town like Warrington. It…read moreis Warrington's main shopping center alongside Cockhedge, which is mainly there just to house an Asda store. As you can tell by its name, Golden Square is basically a large, indoor "Square" of shops, with 135 shops in total according to their website, all over one floor. I dislike the approach of it all being over one floor, being used to seeing shopping centers on multiple floors, which also allows room for more shops, but Warrington's Golden Square also has a few stores in an outside square to it, which is also quite nice including Rhode Island Coffee and a Post Office, which is a nice area. The Shopping Center as I said is quite nice, both inside and out with a good range of shops, including WHSmtih, EE, Starbucks CEX, JD, 3, Waterstones and Vision Express, just to name a few. Due to the shape of the mall, it is quite easy to navigate around. This mall is quite nice for a small town and although it isn't somewhere I'd recommenced you constantly go out of your way to go here, it is well worth a look in if you are in the area as it is a nice shopping center, with a good range of shops and is great for a small town like Warrington, hence a solid 3 star rating.

A shopping centre in the centre of Warrington town centre with all your usual high street shops -…read moreBoots, WHSmith, Next, M&S. Its all under cover so the potential bad English weather won't be a factor. According to their web site, there are 135 stores inside. I went recently a few days before Christmas and it wasn't too busy - nothing like shopping centres like Arndale Centre or Trafford Centre (actually never normally go to Trafford Centre but especially near Christmas but I think I can safely say its crazy busy!) Didn't stay too long but went to Boots and also went to Debenhams for some food - which was actually pretty good. There is multi storey car parking but unfortunately it is not free. For under an hour, its £1. It goes up to £5.50 if you are more than 4 hours. Between 2-4 hours is £2.20 which is not too bad I guess.

Warrington seems to have a good number of retail parks, and Riverside Retail Park is one of them,…read morejust outside the town centre, it has a couple of large stores and brands, including Sports Direct, Home Bargains, B&M, Next and a drive-thru McDonald's, with a couple of empty units with other stores either closing or moving to other retail locations across Warrington. I did find a lack of lighting and a dead atmosphere around the retail park, making it feel slightly run-down, especially compared to JunctionNINE and Gemini Retail Parks, which seem to offer a better selection of stores in the same town. There are only two hours of free parking here, and you will be fined if you overstay that welcome, so do tread accordingly, two hours is more than enough time as there isn't a lot of things to do here anymore, but those looking to spend any significant length of time in McDonald's and then one or two shops, may feel rushed. There always seem to be plenty of car parking spaces here though. 2* - Only useful for a handful of stores, which would probably be better located in the town centre's other retail parks, seems like an unnecessary burden to have this additional one that doesn't offer a great deal to the town.

This shopping centre is ok, not the greatest amount of shops here but that's fine as the town…read morecentre is a right next to it. Its a pity about having to pay parking fees to go and buy something from Argos or Staples etc.. maybe Argos should consider doing ticket stamping like Asda do.. but make it 'within 10 minutes of stamping' instead of Asdas 2 hours. Asda make a lot of money out of people going in to buy £5 worth of shopping to get their ticket stamped .. most people stay longer and buy far more shopping. haha ;-) Needs more parent and toddler parking spaces too!!!

Cockhedge Shopping center is a shopping center in Warrington town center, to use my Manchester City…read moreterminology, it is a bit like the Brian Kidd of Warrington, the Assistant, the deputy, I'm sure many people will agree that this is "the second" shopping center in Warrington, due to its size and number of shops in comparison to the larger Golden Square. I'm going to start with the parking situation which was a bit poor, they is an entrance here with a sort of pay station on your way in and out, on my visit it wasn't manned and the shutters were up to just come in and out as you please. They was a parking sign which looked pretty old and suggested Cockhedge did not actually own the car park, and the prices looked rather expensive too and they contradicted the sign in the window that mentioned Cockhedge had 2 hours free parking. I found this to be rather misleading as they were 2 different parking prices, they really do need to get rid of one sign, as it will confuse most people, especially people (like myself) who are not from Warrington. They is only a few shops here, and most of them seem to be your typical discount stores, such as Wilko, Pound world and B & M, Gala also have a large bingo hall here, Greggs, Argos and Superdrug finish off the list of big names here, which just proves they isn't a lot here and it isn't really worth taking the trip in, unless you do need to go to ASDA. This shopping center didn't have a good atmosphere to it too, with lots of small shops, some with probably are very local stores, and mainly discounters, which made me feel like I was in a market as well, and with music playing and it being very quiet, It just didn't feel like a city center at all, and felt worse than that. When considering the lack of shops and parking situation, I wouldn't bother going out of the way to come here unless you do need to go to Asda, as it is in general sadly a very poor shopping mall, and probably the stores here would be better transferring into the newer, larger Golden Square or on the street level.

The aisles are nice and wide; everything is easy to see and to reach. The staff are pleasant and…read morevery helpful and there are enough of them to make shopping here a pleasant experience without pestering you. They sell a lot of things not available elsewhere but, as in another review, you have to buy what you want there and then, as it may not be on the shelves next time. As this is part of the Birchwood Shopping Complex, parking is excellent and the bus service can get you here from most parts of Warrington. See katiecoodles review for the sort of things they sell, she has summarised them perfectly.

This is one of my favourite bargainous shops. It is brilliant - although I have learnt that if you…read moresee something good you must buy it there and then cos their stock moves fast and they don't always have the same stuff in. They sell end of line stuff, and are particularly good for toys and packet foods. They also sell toiletries too which can be pricey in the supermarket but are around half the price in here.

JunctionNINE Retail Park is a small retail park, a short bus ride away (just over a mile) from…read moreWarrington town centre, it does have some useful brands including Nando's, Starbucks (A very overpriced franchise store) and Currys PC World. Due to its' location, it does have good links through parking and public transport and while the number of stores here remains small, they do have a good number of places to eat/drink including Pizza Hut and Subway in addition to those already mentioned. 3* - Some decent names if you don't fancy going into and walking around the town centre nearby where there is obviously a better choice.

This place sells almost everything! It seems to be a cross…read morebetween B&Q, Tesco's, Boozebusters and almost everywhere else you can think of. If I'm ever looking for something really unusual, this is where I start off, and the prices of normal household items are so good, I can't believe people shop anywhere else. November 2008 update; Just been back and they have the largest selection of Christmas goodies I've ever seen - and I remember the old days of T J Hughes Christmas grottoes! In the early 60's!

This is a great bargain store in the Stretford mall. It's a discount store for all household items;…read morecleaning products, garden items, tools, decorating products etc. If I need a household item I always go in here first as you can really save quite a lot of money. There are quite a few tills so you usually don't have to queue and the staff are helpful if you need to find something as it can be a bit difficult to find what you need.

The idea was a good one. Get a few really high class shopping experiences together in a Victorian…read moreArcade and let people have somewhere to get all the unusual gifts and nick-nacks they didn't realise they wanted. Unfortunately, whether through greed and high rents or just simple economic incompetence, the shops and galleries soon closed. The upstairs terrace is impressive, but doesn't really achieve any other purpose. This could do with a single owner to take over and stamp a personality on it.

Elegant surroundings - pity most of the other shops have closed possibly due to Council…read moreincompetence? The cafe is a welcome oasis - friendly service, fair prices, cakes and snacks. No piped 'muzak', access by lift which is generally working - it was bought on the basis of cost rather than quality. Quiet room at the far end where writers and the like can work in peace. Two minutes from the 'bus station & five minutes from Central railway station.

This store has improved greatly since my last review, the staff seem much more friendly and…read morehelpful, while the overall selection seems to have improved to a satisfactory level, the store is a little cleaner but there still remains products just thrown on the floor, and others hung up but still looked like they'd been open to try on and left in a mess, still an improvement. Sandwiched in between two larger branches 20 minutes away in each direction (Liverpool and Manchester), but still A-OK and not a bad alternative if you do find yourself in Warrington. 3*

I can't walk past a branch of Primark if I've got my kid's with me and on the day we visited this…read morestore they must have thought Christmas had come early because we'd already visited the Wigan branch a couple of hours earlier. However much like Wigan we found this store quite small in comparison to some of the others we've visited in places like Liverpool, Manchester and Blackpool. Happily for me neither found anything they hadn't already seen in other branches so my wallet remained unopened and intact. If you're in Warrington then have a look but if you really want the full Primani experience then head for Liverpool or Manchester instead.