The Tesco store involves a ten minute walk from my house, alog a path that could be deemed to be…read moreunsafe or unsavoury, which means I rarely make the trip. Despite this, the Tesco store, albeit around half the size of the store in Bangor (a Tesco Extra) stocks a good range of produce and seems to always have a lot of special offers/products that are not, to my knowledge, available in stores elsewhere. For example, last week I bought a jar of coffee on a special offer, and later called in to the Bangor store to purchase more to stock up, but it wasn't on offer in the Bangor store, some 8 miles away. Also, last year I searched the Bangor Tesco store for an item, along with several other stores in Bangor and Caernarfon, before finding it in the Tesco at Caernarfon. Unlike other Tesco stores, the Caernarfon one always has a lot of checkout staff and a couple of people serving people who're buying lottery tickets, cigarettes and newspapers and magazines.

Tesco is as cheap or expensive as you want to make it, with their £2.50 - £100+ bottles of wine…read more This standard food-only store without a petrol station was built in the late 80's/early 90s and it's size means you can get many things but you won't feel spoilt for choice or offers (eg forget about the £10 finest meal deals - more often off than on here). Beware also of the incredible amount of spilt things! it's insane, nearly every aisle has got a little yellow warning sign over some spill or other. I think they must clear them out once a week. The fridges break down regularly too as Tesco clearly try and bleed the last breaths out of this building before they get a new flashy one to rival Bangor. Go here if you have to, if you can afford the extra 50p drive to Bangor.

Did not have my "stalk" avocados in stock asked they refused to even talk to me, the manager is…read moreabusive and used the b word.

This shop made the national papers a while back when Kate Middleton was photographed pushing a…read moretrolley laden with royal groceries across the car park. It seems this is Kate and Will's supermarket of choice when they're in residence on Anglesey. You do wonder in fact if this shop was opened by royal request because I can't understand why Waitrose should open their only branch in North Wales (that I know of at least) on the outskirts of such a quiet backwater as Menai Bridge. I recently visited for the first time, I'd been working on Anglesey and was attracted by a offer I'd half heard on an advert I'd half watched. In the event I couldn't find what I was after, maybe the offer had expired or maybe I'd misheard the ad. It turns out Waitrose is a more expensive version of Sainsburys, not somewhere I'd go for the weekly shop even if I didn't live twenty miles away but possibly somewhere I'd go for the odd treat. On quibble is that the carpark is quite busy and clearly they've tried to maximise the number of cars it can accommodate by minimising the size of the parking bays. The result is very tight parking spaces which isn't convenient given the proportion of elderly drivers, who may not be agile enough to squeeze out of a half open door, and also the number of Chelsea tractors which struggle to squeeze in. Expect the odd dent in your door if you visit often.

Visited the store this morning Saturday 3rd January at 09.30 and parked in one of the disabled…read moreparking spaces. When my wife tried to get out of the car she slipped on the ice that was untreated across the whole area. She was fortunate that she was able to stop herself from falling by holding onto the door. I drove from the parking spaces and found a lesser frozen area. We made our way across the pedestrian crossing and into front of the store. The surface of the crossing and surrounding areas was very slippery and untreated with many people nearly falling. When we were leaving at 10.15 I saw a storeman had started to throw salt on the crossing and along the pathway With the car park so frozen at that time why as a matter of duty of care hadn't it occurred to anyone to make the areas clear of ice before the store got busy with customers.

This Tesco store takes a bit of getting to as it's located on a roundabout in between Bangor and…read moreCaernarfon. What's good about this store is that it's the only 24 hour supermarket for miles, but as it's a bit too far for people from Bangor to walk to, it's very quiet of a night. The Tesco store has an excellent cafe which is located above the store floor up an escalator which means customers get to people watch others doing their shopping (and look at the dust on top of the aisles!) whilst they drink their coffee, eat their muffin and read their newspaper. The cafe is quite large and there's always an abundance of free seats and plenty of staff serving which minimises the queueing time. Prices in the cafe are reasonable, for example a cafe latte coffee is around £1.15 whilst a jacket potato with a little pot of tuna is £2.50. The store has a great entertainment section, with a wide range of dvds and cds, and all the latest mobile phones, mp3 players, kettles and other electrical goods. As well as this they have an entire row filled with the yellow deal racks, which include stationary, clothes, tools and home utensils, and some of the special offers are located immediately upon entering the store, which highlights the best offers.

I recently visited this Asda for the first time on a very busy bank holiday weekend. Being a small…read moreshop (in comparison to other Asda's I've visited) it was packed out, with a queue just to get onto the car park. After a short wait a parking space became available and in I went. To be fair they have pretty much anything you can get in a larger store and I managed to get everything I needed. After another queue at the tills, not enough but no space for more, I made my way out of the car park which had if anything got even busier.

I guess this is a fairly typical Asda, but it is the only one in the area so I can only compare it…read morewith other supermarkets. The shop is quite new and so the building is still clean. There is a large car park and I have never struggled to park here. The shop is often busy and it can be difficult to get around amongst all the other shoppers. There are not very many check outs which results in some long queues. The staff at the tills are generally quite friendly and there are usually quite a lot of staff on the shop floor, though they are more likely to be talking to friends than helping customers. The prices are quite low compared with other local supermarkets, but this is reflected in the quality of the goods. There are a lot of non food goods, and recently a George clothing department has been opened.

It depends where you live. I prefer good shopping in the…read moresmall shops - but in Wales I find it very difficult. So I welcome the opening of Aldi in Porthmadog. It is designed very well. DIOLCH AM SIOPA HEFO ALDI. SPEND A LITTLE - LIVE A LOT (ALDI UK). Aldi encourages people to bring their own shopping bags instead of using plastic bags. Bought milk, mineral water, wheat beer, coffee (no, not instant ;-)), and more. It made a huge difference to my shopping in Machynlleth moneywise. I also got fresh fruit here! Since life in Wales is expensive one has to go here unfortunately really.

This was built purely to compete with Lidl. The small town already had Lidl, Tesco and Spar so…read moreanother supermarket isn't really required. Some bargains to be had, but I generally prefer Lidl.

A large Lidl store which is always well stocked, and has a better atmosphere and layout than Aldi…read more Some good deals to be had, but prices are not always the best, but personally I find some of their own branded goods to be the best out there. Staff are friendly and will always open up a checkout if a long queue is forming. Recently, they've set up a little bakery near the entrance, which produces a few simple goods such as baguettes, doughnuts and pastries.

I used to shop in Farmfoods in Llandudno quite a bit but when it closed down a couple of years ago…read moreI assumed that they had gone out of business. However when I started a short term job in Caernarfon I was pleasantly surprised to find that they are still trading. The sell mainly frozen food at very cheap prices. I'm not always sure about the quality of the produce and I wouldn't want to live entirely on their food but it's a great place to pick up odd bits and pieces from time to time.

This Farmfoods just happens to be round the corner from where I live so I visit regularly. There…read moreare some bargains to be had, such as 12 cans of Pepsi or Pepsi Max for £2.25, which works out at just under 19p a can. There's always a wide variety of biscuits, cakes, frozen goods, cheeses and yogurts, vegetables, bread, crisps and confectionary items, but these change regularly, particularly the crisps, sweets and confectionary. They have the well known brands such as McCains, Weight Watchers, McVities, KP, Walkers and Cadbury, etc and whilst they do have a few items of their own label, they're in the minority by far. One thing to be aware of is the LA range of pizzas and other items - the box looks like Chicago Town but the products are inferior, so I'd avoid these personally. They always have a wide variety of cheaply priced meats, such as lamb, chicken, beef mince and steak mince, and lately they've had a good selection of different types of fish and seafood - including mussels, cockels, prawns and even lobster. The large boxes of biscuits are delicious and very cheap the crisps and confectionary are the cheapest around including Poundstretchers, Netto and Home Bargains. The store seems clean and the staff are friendly. There's also a box to purchase saver stamps.

So it was travel to home day. We have engagements we must honour and had we not we'd have stayed…read moreanother few weeks. So after a near 4 hour drive we called into a bright airy Morrisons supermarket in Holyhead 10 mins drive from the 'Irish' ferry to Dublin. It calls itself Irish Ferries but is crewed by an almost 100% non - Irish workforce, supplied by a 3rd party agency whose minimum wage lifestyles of a few quid an hour and a cut for the agency of course have helped make Eamon Rothwell and JB Mc Guckian inadequately taxed multi - millionaires. We shopped for fresh baked bread. I got a loaf with cheese baked in for £2 and a litre of fresh milk about a quid for breakfast in the morning but we also had in mind some food for our journey to avoid the overpriced muck that passes for food on the not at all Irish ferry. This slop gets to me every time. I mean why on Earth can't they just make tasty good food, with fresh ingredients. I couldn't imagine either Rothwell or JB allowing this rubbish into their mouths. I noted on board that a shallow bowl of minestrone soup, made from a packet, is €10. A factory made chicken curry and cheap white rice is near €20. If you served this stuff free in a prison you'd have a riot and the prisoners would likely join in. So we spotted a meal deal in Morrisons that gave us two oriental salads one chicken based and one sweet potato/bhaji based which were tasty spiced for factory made, two costa coffees, again much better than Mc Donald's and a snack from a range of chocolate bars thru packets of crisps. We got two complete meals with our coffees and snacks under a tenner or for less than the price of one serving of packet soup aboard.

Best supermarket on Anglesey. Morrisons seem to stock a wider choice of food items than others on…read morethe island. The store is well designed and has wide aisles for easy access. I rarely see supermarket cages left on the shopfloor too, which is good as they can be a pain to navigate pass. They tend to have cheaper prices and better deals than the competition and I find their own brand products much nicer too. Checkout is fast and friendly. The cafe is also suprisingly good. It has a wide selection of meals on the menu and is staffed by friendly and hard working individuals. I've had better meals here than I've had at some fancy restraunts and pubs! Highly recommended for the weekly/monthly food shopping exeprience.