Powerplay games, on Princes Pavement in the Grange Shopping Centre, is a console game shop that…read moreboth buys and sells--basically if you have a bunch of old games you don't want you can take them in for cash or store credit. They have pretty much everything, it would seem. They are a fairly decent sized shop, and very well stocked, so if there's anything you want they probably have it or can get hold of it for you.

This shop has been open for donkeys years and has diversified lots over the years! The owner of the…read moreshop is a really lovely and friendly man who can't do enough to help you. He is a legend in his own right in Greasby! They rent DVDs, computer games, sell clothes, do photocopying, sell sweets, crisps etc. everything to keep them in business since DVDs became so cheap to buy online, but they are surviving and have great offers like 3 DVDs for £5 for 2 or 3 nights which is a decent deal by anyones standards. Great little shop which you can park right outside of!

Typical Game store, if you're looking for a new game go here, almost no queues and never crowded,…read moreprobably due to it being out the shopping centres. Bit lacking in the second hand stock though.

With over 5000 titles in, from Charlie Chaplin to the Marx Brothers to Harold Lloyd, this place is…read morejaw-dropping. Excellent customer service, so much so I've cancelled my Lovefilm account as I feel there is nothing like going to a bricks and mortar local business and talking movies with a REAL people. Cheap DVD rental (only £2.50) and all the latest films, I can't recommend Snips Movies highly enough.

This is a fab original little bookshop fighting against the likes of Waterstones and Blackwells. I…read moremean, it's not actually fighting those giants, but you know what I mean. If you've seen You've Got Mail you know what I mean. This is a proper bookshop. Books are crammed onto rickety-looking shelves and span all kinds of categories. They buy as well as sell books, so you can get yourself a good swop-shop thing going on if you're savvy enough. Obviously, you've got to have some spare time on your hands to browse through everything, but it's well worth it as this is one of the few remaining old fashioned book stores in the city centre, and you can find some real gems. Also worth a look from an academic point of view - being near the university campuses means you can get some bargains as far as uni reading goes.

It's good because it sells a lot of books cheaply but my enthusiasm for little quaint second hand…read morebookshops has worn a little thin mainly because the owners al seem to be sociopaths or misanthropes. Too harsh? Maybe, it could just be the case that put end to end and the hours sat alone with only books for company probably add up to years, either that or books give off some sort of toxic fumes that effect the central nervous system. Still there are lots of books here so if books are what you're after then why not take a few minutes to see if there's anything amongst the second hand stock - and therefore tick your little green eco box for the day to boot - and you may just come across some thing you'd never thought of picking up .