The Meadows is the newer of Chelmsford shopping centres and probably the nicest. Shops include BHS,…read moreTierack, DP, Boots, Superdrug, Wilkinsons, The Works, Ann Summers, Birthdays and The Perfume Shop. Burtons and Adams have recently closed. If you are feeling hungry there is a BB Coffee and Muffin place and Millies Cookies. There are 2 carparks nearby and toilets upstairs

A small shopping centre accessed from the high street, it has several shops including Boots, BHS,…read moreWilkinsons, Oasis and Waterstones and more. Very clean and tidy and toilets can be found here. You can also use this as a cut through to the Cinema and carparks, and get to the other end of the high street. Well worth a look.

Popped in to buy a jacket in the sales, came out with two - both gorgeous!…read more Basically, if you have a formal social coming up and you're looking for co-ordinates, this is the place. Its all colour grouped like Monsoon, so you dont have to look round the entire shop. Full prices are not cheap, but if you're looking for classics and they have a really good 'petite' range. Have diarised the sale for next Spring. Will need to sharpen my elbows though as I understand it sells out pronto!

This is the most old fashioned department store in Chelmsford it is just a bit away from the very…read morecentre of town towards Moulsham Street. It is a bit of a maze inside with ladies clothes down stairs with concessions mainly catering for the more mature lady. The cook shop is now upstairs on the first floor this is great with hard to find cooking and baking stuff. Also on the first floor is the cafe/restaurant this is very nice and well spaced out the choices of food and drink could be a bit more varied but it usually all tastes nice. They also sell carpet, flooring, curtains and furniture.

I like this shop. It's only tiny, tucked away in Moulsham Street, Chelmsford and is easy to walk…read morepast and miss. It is well worth looking out for as although small, the shop is full to the brim with a wide variety of items. This is a good place to buy presents because they have a lot of unusual and nice items. They sell so much stuff it is hard to know where to start but I will try! Firstly they have a good selection of very reasonably priced jewellery - earrings, necklaces, bracelets. Every time I visit this shop I end up buying myself a pair of earrings! As well as lovely jewellery they sell candles (some gorgeous scented ones), bags, candleholders, clocks, goblets, oilburners and unusual and different ornaments. All there stock is at brilliant prices - I often think they must have made a mistake with the pricing. Oh and if you are anyone you know is into gothic you must visit.

TK Maxx is located at the Chelmer Village retail park, this use to be the retail park where B&Q was…read morebut they left ages ago and it is 100 times better now. TK Maxx is one of those shops where you go in needing nothing and come out hold loads of things you really needed. On the ground floor is ladies clothes, handbags and purses, all shoes, kids clothes, toys, toiletries and seasonal stuff. Upstairs is mens clothes, home ware, books, towels and luggage. To get upstairs you have a choice of lift or stairs. You will find loads of big names and some you have never heard of. I never expect to find great bargains but you will find stuff below the normal price and the choice is amazing where else could you go to find an orange frying pan? There is no toilet at the retail park except for the one in Pizza Hut and I do not like to go in there just to use the loo and they are not always open.

This store is located in a retail park which at the weekend has huge queues of cars lining up to…read moreget it there. So i alwasy go on a week day as the store doesnt shut until 7pm so plenty of time after work to go there with no queues to sit in! Its a large store with toys and womenswear on the ground floor and menswear and homeware upstairs. This store always seems to be in a mess when i go in there, items laying on the floor covered in dust. I rarely buy clothing from here as i still find the prices are quite expensive! But you can pick up some fantatsic cheap toys in there.

Don't go to this store, unless you want to be falsely accused of shoplifting and have the Police…read morecalled on you if you dare to complain. On 6th Aug 2018 I selected a black T shirt that was price marked £2.00 and took it to the tills to pay. The cashier asked me for £1.80, which I paid. I assumed that the 20p shortfall was due to some special offer. (Anyway, is it not legally the cashier's responsibility to charge the correct price, rather than the customer's to offer it?) I had left the store and was drinking a free sample of coffee from Starbuck's when a guy claiming to be store security approached me and said "you have to pay for that". I initially thought that he was referring to the coffee, which was free. When I showed him my receipt, he dismissed it as an old one until I told him to check its date. He insisted that we return to the store, due to the 20p shortfall in what I had paid. Just before we re-entered the store, he said to me: "Tell you what: You just give me the T shirt and I'll let this drop." I was shocked to hear a security guard say something so unprofessional. The guard wore no identification, and only flashed what I assume was his SIA licence at me for about one second (I couldn't even be sure it was an SIA licence!) I therefore initially suspected it was a scam or some TV/YouTube stunt. When the store's Duty Manager had cleared my receipt with the guard and the Security Manager, there was no apology from anyone. The Security Guard grabbed my shoulder and told me to come with him out of the store. This was a violation of SIA rules, as I passed a Door Supervisor course in 2014, and was told that grabbing customers is legally assault. The Guard and his Security Manager followed me out of the store, which to me implied an assumption of guilt and/or malicious intent, even though by now the Duty Manger had checked my receipt and cleared it. On the way out, I said that they had not heard the last of it - as it was my intention to complain formally - and that I would not be shopping in Primark again. I believe that these were both reasonable things to say, given the way that they had treated me. However, a few minutes after I exited High Chelmer I was approached by a Policewoman whom the Security Manager had called. Thankfully she saw sense and did not arrest me.

The store in Chelmsford has recently had a major shift round and I think it has improved it…read moregreatly. On the ground floor is all the mens clothing, perfume and young female clothes makes such as Kookai. Benefit have just enlarged there area downstairs so it is now super big. Upstairs is all the ladies wear and underwear I really like it grouped like this as before you had some stuff upstairs and some downstairs. On the first floor there is also a very nice cafe. On the second floor is all the home wear including kitchen items and cushions and towels etc. the toilets are up here too but they are usually very hot, busy and dirty. There are lifts, escalators and stairs throughout the store. There is small car park out the back but very close is Tesco where you can park for free for 2 hours.

Great store! It has changed and improved, you have lifts that work as well as moving stairs…read more There is a lot to see. If you head upstairs with a buggy be warnd you would have to wander to find the disabled ramp to avoid the stairs which is annoying when you have children. The cafe has improved so much! It is lovely, well enjoyed break. The only down side is the static building when walking and when you press the lift button you get an electric shock!

This furniture store stocks a wide range of furniture and large soft furnishings; beds, sofas,…read moredinining tables, suites, etc. The store is well laid out and presented, making it enjoyable to wander around. Sales staff can be a little pushy at times, but in the whole are friendly and helpful. Upstairs is a great bargain section of discontinued items that can be delivered in a short time frame. If you are willing to haggle a little you can pick up a real bargain!