Sadly, this is as popular as Sainsbury's is ever going to get. The petrol station, despite sharing the same name as it's massive counterpart and only being separated by a few hundred yards, is a totally different entity and is lightyears ahead in popularity.
Most people come here solely for the fuel which some say is cheating and means its not that popular, but technically it is making money isn't it?
People come from far and wide (usually the M1 or the M2) to come here and often you are queued around the repulsively small round about to try and get into the shop.
The other massive Sainsbury's is standing in a huff, and cannot work out why people won't come that little bit further to visit him. All customers come to the petrol station and leave without even considering it's grocery store a little further down.
The price of the fuel is as cheap as you are going to get it. The shop has the bare essentials. Paper, sandwiches, drinks, buns. Stuff you can eat in your car. It has been tailored to suit the needs of it's customers.
The staff are as pleasant as being kicked in the groin and then thrown down stairs into a pile of doggy poop but you don't go there to find a friend.
You go for fuel and the paper, and the occassionally cheap bottle of coke or capri sonne.
This is proof that people trust this company, but they are still not able to work out how to keep customers.
I like this shop as do many other people, but I get the feeling this is all Norn Iron want from Sainsbury's. read more