A good village shop they sell groceries, fresh fruit and vegetables (displayed on the outside of…read morethe shop), ready made sandwiches and homemade cakes and pastries. You can hire a DVD here or drop off your dry cleaning. Useful notice board on the left as you enter the shop where people advertise items for sale or advertise their services. The staff are very friendly and helpful especially the owner who is always ready for a joke. They have quite a good selection of beers and wines for a small shop. Also gift tins of biscuits and sweets for presents. The opening hours are long including Sunday morning.

Premier Convenience Store, also known as the Clifton Food Market, situated on the troubled Clifton…read moreStreet, is one of several convenience stores that are vying for diminishing trade since the one way system was implemented about a year ago. One of the ways that this store attempts to compete is by keeping its doors open as much as possible, and so it is open seven days a week from 8.00 in the morning to ten 'o' clock at night. It is also one of the few places that still stocks newspapers, and of course the discounted alcohol that it carries remains ever popular! Another thing that is impacting the smaller corner shops on the street is the fact that the council have granted permission for a Tesco Metro midway up the street. Although Premier Convenience Store is part of a chain, it is run as a family business, allowing the owner to make a reasonable profit for the responsibilities of running a complex shop of this kind. Conversely, Tescos employ people on minimum wage to work all hours, and then keep the profits for themselves. This means that huge sums of money leave the local economy, and end up in the pockets of the fat cats in London. This is really bad news for Clifton Street and Cardiff as well as Wales as a whole. What Cardiff and Clifton Street need more than anything else is for the council to stop making choices that will further entrench the recession, making it ever more difficult to turn these desperate times around. Cardiff needs a good flow of money within the local economy to endure the vicissitudes of the global slump. If this does not happen, the people of Cardiff can look forward to the prospect of working unsocial hours for an almost punitive wage, with all of the profits being siphoned out of the economy and shipped off to England! If this happens the people of Cardiff will not have the spending power to improve their lot over time!

Hooray! I was seriously in trouble with my allergies this morning and because it's Easter Sunday,…read morenothing was open. Not a Boots or a Superdrug or even a Schuh was available. Figuring I would have to suffer, I managed to spot this shiny new Sainsbury's through my inflamed and tearing eyes. Holding out hope they would have something to cure my ills, I was cheerfully pleased to see a blister pack of 7 Claritin pills on the shelf. Yes, they had a whole bunch more for sale - drinks, candies, magazines, lager, wine, sandwiches, heat-and-eat meals and all sorts of other probably great stuff - but all I needed was relief from the histamine attack going on. I was able to operate the self-checkout and got Nectar points too! Hooray! Three cheers for Sainsbury's! Hip! Hip! Hooray!

I know it's a Sainsbury's Local and not a full grocery store, but this location is still quite…read morecramped and poorly stocked. Perhaps due to all the tourists, but inside it's culinary mayhem. May the Gods forgive any lone fool who wanders in without a plan nor the foreknowledge of where his target products lie.

Nice little shop friendly staff. You are able to buy the basic household food items as well as the…read moreusual newsagents items. Opening times are very convinent.

very rude staff don't accept card under £5 speak on the phone when you try to order avoid this shopread more

A very handy corner shop…read more Of course it is more expensive than a supermarket, but it's not for regular shopping. Bread, milk, sweets, papers are the things I use a shop like this for, although there's a lot more stock that just that. I guess people with pets will make a dash in here, or if you one has suddenly run out of something. Very useful to have nearby, I should think, or does it make one lazy? Hmmm

Many of my friends live around the Oakdale area so vicarage stores as it is now known (I still call…read moreit Londis) is very handy for those spur of the moment things. It stocks all the major needs of a corner shop bread milk newspapers and snacks as well as being an off licence. For a quick bottle of drink, packet of crisps, ice cream or a paper the shop is great. But prices on some objects can be steep. The shop has its own forecourt so pulling up the car to nip in is easy. If you're in the area and need a shop there is no reason why vicarage stores shouldn't be a port of call.

Goldy's Farm shop could be a great little shop where you can buy lots of nice things, eco…read more-friendly, foody heaven. Unfortunately it isn't. I don't think I've ever been so dissapointed when visiting a place. The signs directing you to the shop suggest a range of ready meals, hot food and organic produce will be available in abundance when you arrive. "Great" I thought, as I could just have done with a decent pie or fresh non-roadside-garage-style-sandwich. When I arrived, I was forced off the road by an oncoming vehicle, because the narrow access road appears only to have been designed to fit the shopkeepers (not eco-friendly, I might add) 4x4 car. "This isn't a good start" I thought. When I came into the "car park", there was a big gully in the middle of it, that when you drive over, the underside the car scrapes on the pavement (unless, I imagine, you are driving a large, non eco-friendly vehicle, like the owner). I spent some time looking around the shop, desparatley trying to find something that I wanted to buy, but except for the shelves of over-priced organic cotton nappies, sparcely arranged butcher's fridge and 1, yes, 1 pie and a burnt pizza bread, there was really nothing of any interest. At all. I suppose if you have a bank account as big as the crater in the car park you might be able to afford a tub of olives, slice of cheese or a home made loaf, but you still wouldn't have a sandwich. Their eco, organic, LOCAL, free range, blah blah blah shop is full of half cut ideas for helping save the planet - there potatoes have "zero food miles", but that's no good if you still have to go to tesco and buy something decent to put in it. Their trolleys are made from recycled bottles - "what a great idea" I thought, until I saw they had ben shipped from abroad -same goes for their wicker shopping baskets - from China. To top it all, I stood waiting the best part of half an hour to get served a slice of cheddar by a girl, who, despite her best efforts informed me "she hasn't been shown how to cut cheese, yet." Bravo, Mrs Goldy, or whatever your name is. Slow staff, poor layout, bad service and hardly anything to actually BUY...I think you need to try harder.