News Box is a tiny little newsagents at the end of the high street. As well as selling the famous…read moreBolton Evening News it sells all the daily papers and a few specialist racing ones as well. Like all good newsagents, they also have loads of sweets, crisps and magazines to tempt you in to parting with your precious pennies. They also sell international phone cards here - always cheaper calling Dubai via one of these than directly from your landline. The man serving in News Box is friendly too. Good newsagents all round.

If you wanted your soul destorying whilst buying food, then Bamford Village Store is the perfect…read moreplace to shop. The staff are rude, ignorant, lazy and that's mostly the managers. They rarely have things in stock and if you dare ask them to look in the stockroom .. is rally goood customer service now igive them 10/10

This is actualyl a spar and has been for a while. When it was Bamford village stores it was quite…read morepleasant - not best priced, but some local stuff, good range of products and pretty friendly. Even when it first became Spar, it was alright for a spar. But new owners/staff dont seem to know the meaning of customer service, or as far as I can gather speak. At least in English, to customers - just blank looks. Shame really.

News 'N' Booze is good because its a small newsagents at the oppisite end to town, So you are able…read moreto go in and get the basics and or confectionary etc without having to go all the way into town. The shop is small but easy to find the items. The staff are friendly and they will pack bags ect if help is needed. A tad expensive but then so are most smaller shops.

There's a Tesco, Sainsbury's, Co-op popping up on every corner of the city centre and it doesn't…read morestop at one branch of the supermarket giants' one stop city centre shops. The domination and battle of the supermarket giants are ever present in the city centre, you can find like four mini Tescos around the vicinity of Deansgate and Piccadilly areas. A lot anyway. So here's to the Xpress on Whitworth Street West, one of a few cornershop types springing up in the city, to balance the equilibrium of the chain store masses and inject a little local to the often impersonable, daunting city centre. Xpress Local has recently opened up on my route to university. I've watched it been transformed from an empty space, learnt what it takes for a cash machine to be installed whilst thinking damn, this is where my late night snacking will take it's higher form. Xpress stocks all your basic groceries, milk, cheese, bread and acts as your off license too. I've used it for the range of bad snacks on offer, which has been bad for the healthy eating regime plus the purse. It annoyingly does not display prices on a lot of things which I thought was because it was opening mid-finish but this isn't the case. Annoyingly so, one late night purge, I watched my tube of pringles being scanned to reveal £1.99. I knew I should have purchased the half price ones in Tesco. Xpress is one of those places you just pop in and get the things you want or crave or when you're under time pressure. There may not be an extensive range of fresh or organic what nots but you can expect a pleasant none lengthy queue if you do find yourself in here.