It's an open air shopping area with all the usual suspects in the centre of town; it's about five…read moreminutes walk from another closed in shopping centre called The Ridings. So it's pleasant enough in summer, even a damp, breezy, cool one, but I imagine it's pretty miserable in deep winter. I didn't go into the Starbucks as my loyalty to the brand is gone. I did pop into the BurgerKing but I ain't giving them a tenner for a whopper meal it's gone from cheap junk fast food to overpriced junk fast food. For a tenner I could make four 125gm burgers including the bun, onions, lettuce and tomato and the mince would be 5% fat. I'm getting really saturnine in my older age.

I did like it because it has a good number of independent stores. Of course it has the usual…read moresuspects we find everywhere but I do like to find the quirky and the odd. I could go to an independent for a coffee and I must admit that I did think hard about buying a 2nd hand tenor banjo in one rather eccentric store for a mere £99. I decided no as we had so little room in our over crammed car. As I write this there's a chap on the radio who was a North Korean diplomat who defected to the south who says Kim etc wants the weird orange man to be President of America again. Have I got it right when I surmise that a weird young man, who shouldn't have been able to buy a battle - field assault rifle in the first place, and could only do so because the weird old (but not showing any sense of wisdom) orange man changed the rules when 45th USA President, so enabling the weird young man to buy one, then gifted with this acquired legal right the weird young man took a shot at and missed the weird old man?

This shopping centre is very local to me, this shopping centre used to be very lively but I…read morewouldn't say it is anymore. The only shops I go to are primark and Morrison's, I think some new shops would be a good thing etc Zara or some shops bigger shopping centres have. Security is good and the shopping centre is really easy to get around. I just think they could be some improvements

'Batley Mills' is a great place to visit for a relaxed one stop discounted shopping experience…read more I am pleased to say 'The Mill' in the last couple of years has evolved and improved greatly on their selection of women's clothing and fashion, catering for a wider range of clients than just the over 60s. As well as Planet and Precis Petite, they have expanded their clothing range to include Minuet, Kaliko and Jacques Vert which is great. I have as a result started going to the Mill regularly to keep my work wardrobe up to date. I have really had some good buys. As well as the improved womens clothing, the Mill in Batley is a great place to find handbags, luggage, wallets and purses etc. The discounted brands include Radley and Hideskin The staff seem helpful and friendly and if you are visiting by car there is plentiful free parking (although it can get busy at the weekends). The Cafe Nova coffee shop is located on the 1st floor of the mill and they not only serve delicious teas and italian coffee but their cakes and sandwich selections are also very tempting and a great excuse to have a break. It would be nice if good quality fashionable footwear could be introduced to the mill, similar to the selections found at the Boundary Mill in Colne. I also think emailing offers and information out to customers regularly for shopping events such as an extra 10% off or a free coffee voucher would be a good way of encouraging cutomers to keep visiting. I don't always go to the upper floors of the mill as I find the escalator system a little bit frustating in that you are forced to walk along the length of each floor for the ascent and then the same again on the way down. This zig-zagging may be an attempt to encourage shoppers to walk through each of the floor areas but I am afraid I just find it a nuisance. Other than that I would enthusiastically recommend a visit to The Mill in Batley. Happy Shopping :)

The Mill at Batley is great, there are loads of different shops inside offering designer clothes…read moreand shoes also home ware at good discounted prices. They have several cafe's too. I was there again last week and bought 2 nice suitcases and 3 pairs of shoes all good makes. They have a great selection of Radley and Tula handbags the prices are about half the normal price and I bought my husband a really nice Regatta jacket for £45 instead of £100! If you want a good shopping day out you can spend several hours at the Mill with all the top brands available at half the cost! A mile further along the same road is Red Brick Mill which is fantastic for Home purchases rather than clothes.

Good store, the only thing I have a problem is is that the store is so narrow and hard to get…read morearound for my mum who is on a mobility scooter. There's stands of clothes everywhere which makes it even hard for me who talks to navigate around

Matalan, the catalogue company where you have to go check out and pick up the goods instead of…read morehaving a catalogue and getting them delivered! OK, they don't have an actual catalogue as such, but I classify any shop that makes you sign up before actually allowing you to buy anything as well, something other than a regular B&M store. Just annoying, maybe! That said, I have to admit Matalan very often have some mighty fine product. My two year old navy work skirt suit from them still gets compliments, and fits so perfectly it might have been made for me. I've also had some absolutely beautiful shoes from them. Still annoying!

Love this place .. good place to go at the weekend some shops have great prices... service varies…read moredepending on which store but most of them are good .. such a wide selection of stuff that you can buy ... also .. not too many old people

We don't have such large shopping centres in Switzerland. It's cleaner than any town centre I've…read moreever seen in England with a wide variety of stores. My favourites: A Thornton's, a gigantic Sainsbury's (with every kind of Gü pudding and a huge assortment of chips), several cupcake and cookie stands and a stand selling every conceivable mobile phone case and cover, even one for my Xperia Z! There are also two very large gift / card shops that will probably sell the most obscure card you just couldn't find anywhere else. Try not to go in a mixed gender group, since there's not much for the men to do other than sit around in the café in the middle of the ground floor while the women wander around aimlessly for several hours. Lots and lots of parking, clean facilities.

We arrived in this town centre store for good coffee, great WiFi, comfy seats and clean toilets and…read morewe got all four. We've abandoned going to the chain stores like Starbucks where loyalty really counts for nowt. No doubt we'll go back to the chain stores but we won't rush. The staff here were real friendly and had time for customers. When we were there we also did some shopping for fresh fruit and shortbread; M&S shortbread is superb.

M&S: one of the best places for sandwiches if you're in a hurry for a quick bite. Cheaper than you…read morewould think for M&S: if you can't make it to Greggs (very good tuna and cucumber) then M&S soft cheese and celery is great, or the duck and hoisin sauce wrap is divine if you feel like splashing a little more cash. The bottled water on the other hand is cheaper than most places except perhaps Morrisons. M&S ladies' heeled shoes are also beautiful, a little more pricey than I'm used to shelling out but then you may not be such a tightwad as me The clothes are (even now) a little more 'old lady' than is to my taste, but your mileage may vary

Terrible. Today is April 19th 2022 This is my terrible…read moreexperience at poundland in Shepherd's Bush in West 12 I am carrying a guitar on my back and my backpack on my left arm and a full shipping bag on my right hand. i walk inside the store and get a large 2.5 liter bottle of soda (fizzy drink) and a karge bag off salted peanuts. i wait behind three people as I am waiting my turn to pay on one of their self service machines or the counter person. my turn comes and my total is 2.50 and the machine asks me if I want a bag or not. I definitely need the bag to carry the heavy soda. So I pay a total of 2.70 i come to the counter to get my bag and she says she has no .29 bags. she says I can get the £2bags. I say ok I think to myself I'll put the large drink under my left arm and the peanuts in my large jacket pocket. i just have to get my 0.20 back. the lady to my right who was being Checked out by the counter person had a lot of items. So I had to wait for a long time. her bill came to £56 pounds. All this waiting with my heavy bags tired me and I decided to just go without the 0.20 as I start to move I notice its physically uncomfortable for me to carry all of my items because now I am tired and walking a few minutes with these items is going to be terrible m. The weather is a bit hot so it's not good. I realised I could not take them so I just said just give me my money back and the lady called a guy to refund me the money and the guy who seens to be working as se unity as well tells me I cannot refund the money for food. I said I have not even taken the stuff outside the store. He said when it is scanned it is considered purchased and there is no refund. come tomorrow and talk to the manager. I repeated the phrase I have not taken the stuff out the door yet. But to not avail. i said I can't take the stuff with me because you have no bags, and I can't physically carry them by hand either because I've been waiting for 19 minutes waiting for 0.20 so they have £2.70 of mine and I said fine I'll leave and give a review online. bad policy for not having enough bags for me to take my purchases home. If you run out of bags make a sign stating you are out of bags. this way I dont waste my TIME ENERGY & MONEY £2.70 When you know people will be purchasing bags which you do not have and so you have to give them the 0.20 back, have some 0,20 nearby outside the register to hand to customers and don't make them wait for next customer 's purchase to finish just to be able to get out 0.20 to give me 0.20 I was so appalled by the lack of this ridiculous way of handling things , essentially lack of customer service that I declared, I am never shopping here again. And I mean it.

Poundland. Everything's a pound. But everything is worth a pound or less, so it's not like you'll…read moreget a Tiffany necklace for a quid. Every branch is always a shambles, probably because when everything's a pound people have less respect for the products because they know they're so cheap. This is not a particularly big branch so is maybe more messy than most. They cram everything in and the aisles are small so avoid if you have claustrophobia. Tips: come here for branded toiletries - they have some things which you'd pay more for in Boots or Superdrug or the supermarket. Also, toilet paper - they do 6 packs for £1, which is cheaper than most other places. Obviously this is after you've decided that you won't lose all of your pride and dignity by shopping in Poundland. Also a good place to pick up small gifts, stocking filler type things, like gadgets, sweets and toys.

Trinity Walk is quite an impressive shopping centre in Wakefield, albeit it was built and opened…read moreover 6 years ago now in 2011, it still does feel really modern especially as you walk in, with the cool signage, however, getting into the car park just feels old on the other hand, the way in I found was entering through a Sainsbury's car park and then navigate (if you know how to) to basement parking for the rest of the mall, charged at the same rate of around 80p an hour. In all honesty, there are over 1000 parking spaces yet there isn't a lot of lifts (unless they are hidden?) - and the car parking spaces also seemed the same for me, hidden, albeit I didn't know the area very well and perhaps I could have missed a rather obvious sign. Although not as big and nice of a centre of Trinity Leeds, which opened two years after this, just 11 miles away, with many bigger names including Apple, this mall still has some good things about it. It has four anchor tenants including a very large Sainsbury's supermarket store and an even larger store by meters squared, Debenhams, Trinity Walk has a few eating places including one of the best Pizza Express branches I have visited, and a former Burger unit, which is recently empty based on appearance, and the fact it is actually still on the mall's website. Caffe Nero and Costa all have branches here but sadly my favourite coffee chain, Starbucks did not so I ended up calling at Hartshead Moor Services on my way home to Manchester to grab my Venti White Mocha Cold Brew. Other retailers here include a WHSmith which has a post office inside, JD Sports, ASDA George, EE, Game, Superdrug and Topman, there also is a PureGym here. Of course this mall is dwarfed by those nearby, such as Trinity Leeds 11 miles away, and Meadowhall in Sheffield 22 miles away, Leeds White Rose 8 miles away, yet in my opinion it still beats other local malls such as the newer Westfield of Bradford, but still for a town with a population of just short of 80,000, this mall is still quite impressive and does feature some big names, and I feel it has just touched on a three star rating and to consolidate this some more, perhaps adding better, more obvious parking and a few more eateries, with the only place appealed to me (other than a coffee shop) being Pizza Express.

I now declare the delightful new shopping centre well and truly open)…read moreWhat a very exciting day for Wakefield and the Yorkshire region. Most stores are open with a few to follow soon. There is a real vibe and buzz around the place. It is far bigger than better than expected and has a lovely big Sainsbury's and Debenhams.