I usually buy online from TK Maxx but needed some additional items as a last-minute addition to my…read moregrand-daughter's birthday present so popped into the Swansea store and wasn't disappointed as there were loads of choices for a soon to be 16-year-old...the staff were a great help in locating the items I had in mind and were very polite and friendly. The store was bright and very clean and welcoming, and I sped through the check out when it came to payment....

Tk Maxx is located on the Morfa retail park , it is a huge shop with 2 floors…read more On the ground floor you will find ladies and mens clothing , bags , shoes and gifts. On the upper floor you will find babies and kids clothing , toys , books , homewares. You can find some good bargains if you have the time to hunt around the store , I find it a little big and at times impossible to find what I am looking for. The quality of the clothing is very good and is not badly priced. There can sometimes be long queues but the checkout staff try and open up as many tills as possible

Not sure if Sarah P actually left the Quadrant...Swansea also has an M&S and BHS, which I my memory…read moreserves me right are both department stores...and of course it'll be smaller than Cardiff...most stores in Wales outside of Cardiff ARE small. Anyway, Debenhams. I do like it, especially during the final days of their Blue Cross sale, when things go buy one get on free. Because of this, I managed to buy 4 bras for the princely sum of £12 - two of them the fairly pricey Miss Ultimo bras. I was impressed. I could spend ages in Debenhams, and more so now that the Benefit counter has expanded to include an eyebrow bar - now if the one in Leeds could just follow along with that, it'd be much appreciated!

Good branch of Debenhams in the Quadrant Centre with all the usual departments and floors. Great…read morefor clothes, gifts and things for the home.

This shoe shop is located in Woodfield street Morriston across the road from Woolworths. This is a…read morevery large shoe Zone, they have a wide variety of shoes for the whole family ranging from boots , trainers , slippers all at very good prices. The shop is always tidy and clean , and the staff are very helpful especially if you need to measure your childs feet. The shoes here are good quality and will last quite a while and I love their slippers they are so soft and comfy. The shop is big enough for me to be able to push the buggy around without getting in anybodys way

This is a great shop which sells everything for a pound , they sell a vast range of things like…read moretoiletries , toys , DIY , dvds , food , and homewares. Now you might think that because everything is a pound that it must all be junk , you are wrong! A lot of the things they sell are ok , I like to buy the craft stuff like paper , pens , pencils and glue. The one downside is this shop is very cramped which means you cannot really have a good look round when it is busy as you just get in the way , and often I find the buggy gets in the way and people start to get annoyed. Also there are always large queues at the checkout especially when there are only 2 members of staff on.

Always a fun place to shop to buy something cheap and feel good about yuorself. I generally…read morewouldn't buy things from here for general food/weekly shops, though it does have some nice items. I'd always go to the 99p across the road now though, much bigger, more stock and easier to move around in. Poundland is often far too busy with huge queues.

What can I say? Everything in here is 99p and there are thousands of items! Particulary good value…read moreare things like heated pads which retail for about 5 times as much, vesta meals, multi packs of crisps etc. You don't have to be on an extreme budget to come here it's just nice that you can get things the same for much less than you would at a large supermarket. Garden items are very good, lots and lots of seasonal items in around Christmas, you can get great crafty sets here for younger family members! The biggest downside of this shop is it gets so busy you really have to be careful what time you go, opt for early morning if you want to do some serious shopping as the queues can be long.

The 99p shop that isnt a £1 shop! and that actually started as a £2 shop a couple of years back…read more Its a great shop, and has alot packed in there, great bargains if you look through the beauty section especially, although my favourite thing to buy in there are the big money jars, bacause you cant get them anywhere else. Its great for an budget because of their wide selection of bits and pieces, the queues are always quite minimal considering its quite busy there on times, and its extremely messy in there, but what can you expect for the high volume of items in there.

Poundstrecher is now called Instore , they sell a bit of everything from cusions, pillows , duvets…read more,duvet covers , toiletries , clothes ,toys , gardening , food and gifts. At the moment they have a good range of christmas decorations , stockings , christmas cards and gifts all at very good prices. I like the clothes here for children especially the sweaters which only cost £2 - £3 , they are quite good quality and wash well in the machine. This shop can get very busy and you can land up in a very big queue which can take forever if only 2 members of staff are on the till. The staff are very polite and are very helpful.

Crazy Macs is located on the swansea enterprise park not far from PC world and currys…read more I was recently looking for a cheap sofa so decided to look in Crazy Macs , the shop is quite big and they sell carpets, bedroom furniture , dining tables , beds and sofas. Some of the sofa`s were good quality but very expensive , other sofa`s were expensive and not very good quality. I noticed that some of the sofas had a lot of marks and tears yet they still had a price mark of £200. They also had cheap sofa`s at £50 which I guess would be suitable for a student. I noticed a lot of the dining tables were scratched and chipped and again they had very high prices. If you decide to buy a product they do deliver for a small fee.

Crazy Macs are actually closed down now which can only be a good thing…read more It seemed to me like a large jumble sale where people would bring their unwanted rubbish, dump it all on the floor and try to sell it. Unfortunately, this rubbish was actually their stock.

It's a Wilkinsons which means cheap stuff that everybody needs to survive, I've been here many…read moretimes to pick up essentials and I can't complain, just don't expect grandeur.

Much better now it's had a refurbishment, it's opened it up a lot and is much more bright and airy…read morethan it used to be. Probably one of the biggest Wilko's I've been in, I can get everything I need in this one store. Most of my lampshades at home came from here because the range they had on offer was much more extensive to what Leeds had to show me. It also happens to be across the road from where my best friend works, so it's a very useful place to kill time while waiting for her to finish work!

Marks and Spencer lately has been doing an offer of £10 every other weekend for what they call a…read moremeal for two including wine, dessert and side dish. It has been widely advertised but I would say anyone interested needs to carefully shop within the offer, depending on your choices you can get save over £10 or as little as £2. If you shop within the offer carefully it ends up as a meal for 4, large chickens have been part of the offer sometimes and ready meals that serve 4 plus they had a great cheese board in the offer last time but by lunchtime on the Saturday no cheese boards were left or restocked on sunday. Unfortunately the most expensive items in the offer do sell out very quickly and sometimes, at least in the Swansea shop, they run out of side orders and desserts making the offer no longer available early on in the day.

Marks and Spencer on Oxford street in Swansea is quite a large store and does have a food store…read moreincorporated. Prices are high and I do find the selection of clothes a little boring and aimed at the older person. The food they sell is lovely but dont expect to be able to do a weeks shop here as they just dont stock enough range. Its worth noting that they dont sell anything other than their own brands. Also remember that if your buying lots of food you have to walk it all back to the car and since this store is in the middle of Swansea then that may be quite a walk. They do do good 3 for 2 offers on xmas pressies so look out for them.