This is my local shop so I'm in here quite a lot to top up on bread and milk, because my toddler is like a bottomless pit with these two items. It stocks all the basics you would expect from a small shop - juice, milk, cold meat, fruit, cans, sweets, crisps, emergency toiletries, magazines - and also some things you might not expect - they have a small freezer, a good wine selection and some lovely fresh cakes delivered daily. Great for those days when you've run out of a couple of things and a visit to the supermarket is your worst nightmare.
They also have a Subway just by the main door and that's where this shop loses marks. I am that person who gets easily annoyed in a Subway queue. It was a standard lunch for me at my job for years so I knew exactly what I wanted and was quite impatient with anyone who didn't (come on, it was my lunch break!) I got especially irritated when people tried to order out of sequence - time is money after all.
Anyway, time is something you definitely need a lot of to visit the Subway in this store. I have been in on occasions where I am the only person to be served and still have to wait around 10 minutes for my salad to be made and pay. Today I was in a queue of 3 people and waited 20 minutes for my sandwich. TWENTY MINUTES! Partly this was down to the dreaded Subway novice in front of me, but the 2 members of staff were just incredibly slow. And very grumpy about their "large" queue. They were audibly complaining about pretty much everything whilst serving everyone which was incredibly off-putting considering I had been standing watching them make 3 sandwiches for the past 20 minutes.
I genuinely don't know what made me go for a Subway for lunch today. The last time I went for a salad bowl the lettuce was limp and old, the tomatoes were past ripe and the chicken was hard. I vowed never again, but today hunger won out whilst I was picking up a couple of essentials. My sandwich today tasted good, it was your average sub. But given the experience, this time I'm definitely sworn off this branch of Subway. read more