Sainsbury's is without a doubt the best supermarket in Armagh. Lovely helpful staff, large…read moreselection of products (including vegetarian options) and a great off licence stocking a superb wine selection. Quality produce and excellent own brand items. I adore Sainsbury's Nut Cutlets and their own brand vegetarian mince is the best you'll get anywhere. Sainsbury's also stock a brilliant range of soy, coconut and nut milks as well as soya yogurts. You can get your parking ticket stamped in-store which allows you to park free if doing a grocery shop. They also sell clothes and a full range of 'free from' items if you want dairy or gluten free food. I highly recommend the awesome in store made pizzas, breads and pastries. At Christmas and New Year Sainsbury's have a special range of fabulous food you can order and collect in store, I would especially recommend the: *Three nut roast with cranberry sauce *Butternut & mushroom en croute *Limoncello buche de Noel If you want indulgent, treat foods try Sainsbury's 'Taste The Difference' range. This blows every other supermarkets 'luxury' items clean out of the water. Definitely the best you'll get, bar none.

We were staying in a holiday cottage for my friend's birthday and decided to stop in here on the…read moreway for some 'supplies!' it was a bit of a last chance saloon for us as this was the last big supermarket on the way to where were were going, which was quite remote, so we really needed to stock up. This was just as good as any of the big Tesco stores, it was well stocked and tidy, with a good alcohol secetion, and we were able to get everything we needed. Large car park as well as is usual for Tesco superstores.

Was in Drogheda tescos extra today staff do nothing g but talk to there friends for a good period…read moreof a time and have customers waiting. Then there was a chap with a disability no talk no comment just served them. I think staff need to be trained on how they treat people people with disabilities are been x communities In society this is called prejudice and discrimination. Shouldn't be allowed and they need to set up an autism area in each store to help with this issue.

So if you're coming here from abroad, beware, because while this Tesco may stock an excellent…read morechicken-and-stuffing sandwich, they will also refuse to take virtually any credit card from the USA (and likely a good number of other places outside the UK and Ireland). When we heard here of the prevalence of the "Chip and PIN" system here, we were super worried and braved awful ATM fees to withdraw cash down the way. Per Chase/British Airways: "Further, customers in the United States traveling outside the U.S. are not required to obtain a PIN. Merchants in Europe (or other countries) are required to: - Accept all cards with magnetic stripe - Honor all cards bearing the Visa/ MasterCard brand mark if they accept MasterCard - Accept magnetic stripe as well as chip cards, even in markets that are evolving to 100% chip card local issuance You should urge the merchant to insert the card into the terminal and follow the prompts. The terminal will automatically request a signature. If the merchant insists on not accepting the card, please call us at the number listed on the back of your card, to report the merchant name and address. " The folks at the store were very nice and may have been scared by various tactics used at the outset of Chip-and-PIN stuff (see the Wikipedia article) into refusing our card, but apparently it's a legal no-no, and we'd like to prevent other visitors from having to go through the rigamarole that we did.

Had a very poor experience tonight in Asda. As usual, the price marked on the shelf is not the…read moreprice when scanned so I took a photo of the shelf and when using the self checkout I showed it to the woman at the tills. She wouldn't look at my photo, instead she asked me to show her the items that were incorrect. I pointed to them (even though they were very visible in the trolley) She then asked me what aisle they were on, I said I took a photo, this was ignored and she said a price check would have to be done. Off she went, 10mins later she returned and said she wasn't adjusting the price as the reduction had expired?! I, as a customer is supposed to know this how? I told her that was ridiculous as the shelf was clearly marked as a rollback price but she was very adamant with me that she was not going to adjust the price, it had expired and she was unable to override it. Well I know for a fact this is nonsense as I purchase these products on a regular basis and they have never been marked down correctly. Strangely the staff during the day just say "Oh those still are not scanning properly, I will adjust them" This member of staff was not obliging whatsoever, she claimed management would not allow this and the best she can do is reduce one of the items, rest would be charged at the higher price! Considering they are still 50p more expensive each than in Tescos, I told her that I wasn't accepting the reduction in just one so she lifted the items from my trolley and confiscated them! Wow! Unbelievably poor customer service! The joke was her outfit said 'Happy to help' Asda take these people off your customer facing roles! Very, very off putting! Stock levels in store were shockingly bad too!

Poor level of stock on shelves. Very few staff and long lines at the checkouts. The store is untidy…read moreand we have found a range of products being sold after their sell/use by dates still on the shelves. This was once the best shopping experience in Portadown now it is unpleasant and exceptionally disappointing. Why has this happened? What is management doing?

This is a big store!! The entry road off main road is very narrow!! Plenty of free parking. Dropped…read morein to get a few things. The layout is a bit different compared with other TESCO stores. There's a really good butchers at the rear and a lovely cafe at the back also.

Parking free but that's all that's good about Tesco it is like all the other Tesco stores which…read morehave a couple items that are at acceptable price everything else is absolutely extremely expensive. Their greed for money makes me cringe and management has a non caring attitude when I approached them. Tesco is a disgrace and offer in my opinion no value for money. Personally I would advise anyone to shop around unless you are quite happy to contribute to this company owners luxurious lifestyle.

Good independent supermarket which sells a huge range of products. Just as you'd expect they sell…read moreevery grocery item imaginable - meats, fresh fruit and veg, breads, deli items and they have a very good off licence too. I have occasionally been disappointed with McAnerney's unfortunately. On a recent trip I found their one offering of halloumi cheese extortionately priced. Hence I visited another supermarket and picked up some halloumi for a fraction of the price. Good quality products but expensive.

It doesn't have the variety of products that Sainsbury's has and they are usually a little more…read moreexpensive, but the convenient location and friendly staff make up for it. It's an excellent location if you're on that side of the town and need to pick up a few essentials in a hurry.

This is a fairly new Tesco superstore. I used to go to the Tesco Extra in Lisburn prior to this one…read moreopening. Although it isn't as big or with as wide a range as the Lisburn store, it still has pretty much everything you could need. The store is always clean and tidy and the shelves well stocked. Lots of parking outside too.

The new Tesco store is much bigger than we all had anticipated…read more It's great to be able to buy chart CDs and DVDs in the town.

Three times in two weeks I travelled from Newry to Dundalk to purchase a refill of the male shaving…read moreblades to find the shelf empty, and when I enquired of an employee, he returned and told me there were none in the back store either.

It's very hard to criticise a place that's great value with mostly quality food. That said I only…read morebuy a few items here - for fresh I go for fillet steak, pork fillet, chicken breast and pork mince (5% fat). So all meat is from Irish farms and I believe the quality of Irish meat is always excellent. The fillet steak is 32 day dry aged. Most steak in the USA is wet aged which is cheaper and produces an inferior product. For frozen it's their Greenland cold water prawns. They are again wonderful quality and taste. The last day I was there they were selling snow peas at 49 cents a bag and 500gm of red grapes at €1.29. Wonderful value for great produce and they often have real deals on fresh veg. So I bought a half dozen of each. The new normal is that you may have to stand outside a while as numbers are now limited. This is ok in an Irish summer (which this year is lousy). They provide hand sanitizer on entry. The only other downside is that they don't have many check out staff so again you can queue there a while too but it's the rub of the green here as the prices are so competitive.

Well laid out store with efficient staff that's been in the village for quite some time. Within…read morewalking distance of the village so good for quick top ups mid week. Never kept waiting long

Sprucefield opened its carpark in 2003, bringing in the biggest Sainsbury store in the country…read more However, there was a bit of a problem due to planning and various objections so Sainsbury's should have been in N.I 8 years previously. And so far, the shop is yet to cement itself into the N.I shopping calender. Perhaps it is that there are only a handful of stores around the country, or perhaps it has something to do with an unearthed national hatred of Sainsbury's partron and all round healthy Jamie Oliver. Nevertheless, it is not a regular grocery visit for many people. This I cannot really understand. The store is huge. Both it and B&Q are considered the "anchor tents" or the big major shops to non-building folks. Yet any time I've been here, this store always seems strangely quiet. Tescos, Asda and even to an extent M&S have found themselves embraced by the NI shopping fanatics, yet this store always seems to be trying to beg people to come in, and very few do. This is nothing to do with the store itself. It is s terrific spot for shopping. The food is great, particularly the fresh meat and the staff are always more than obliging to help you. Although the prices are a smidgen above the prices of Tescos or Asda, it is a very nice shop to be in and the restaurant that they have is always well stocked and the food is as good as you are going to get for a restaurant in a shop. The clothing end is fashionable and the cds and dvds are all up-to-date and occassionally very cheap. I think Sainsbury's has quite a long way to go before people really trust it and accept it over Tesco or Asda. Poundland has only come to NI a year or two ago and people have really taken to it. Perhaps no-one will ever take to Sainsbury's. I can't really work out why, but I'm going to blame Jamie Oliver.

This Sainsburys store is massive. It's like an airport hanger full of every kind of grocery you…read morecould need. The fact that it's about 15-20 minutes outside of the city centre means that it's only really people passing on the motorway that would stop in for a shop, or people living nearby. The store offers a huuuuge deal of selection. I dropped in with some friends recently as we had driven up from Dundalk to acquire the makings of some mojito cocktails and some scrumptious food for dinner. It was very handy for us coming off the motorway and there were miles of parking spaces available. The staff were friendly and helpful too, no complaints there. This store also stock clothing and homewares. An epic store for it's sheer size.