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.

Very close to several large student housing blocks this is a shop with one clientele in mind. For…read moreone thing these dedicated guys are open every day from 7am till midnight. A quick walk around the shop reveals all the student essentials you can imagine. They have tights, fruit juice, a wide range of male and female toiletries, a stationary section and the largest selection of biscuits I have ever seen. This is not an exaggeration; think Hobnobs, Digestives, Crunch biscuits, ones I'd forgotten about, one's I've never even heard about! A whole wall of biscuits - extraordinary. As all students necessitate the stuff there's obviously a wide choice of beers and wine with regular deals and discounts. Ready meals, soups, pre made sandwiches and for those on a budget the morning after, miniature boxes of cereal. A well thought out shop keeping Bristol's students satiated.

If temp bar and waiter work is your thing (or catering / hospitality in general), then West One…read moreRecruitment should be on your hit list. The staff are really personable - you can register immediately and they give you a crash course / refresher in how to lay a table and carry multiple plates. They aren't one of those agents that never get in touch - quite literally you could have work the next day. They often have to send a few staff at a time to certain venues - so if any of the other temps has a car, they organise drop-off and pick-up from the office, which is a great help.

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!

To people not from these parts some place names are legendary about Bristol: The Tobacco Factory…read moreand the Docks for example. Once you live here there are others: The Bear Pit, Cribbs etc. Another place you don't really know about until you live here is The Best. The (self titled) Best Supermarket is legendary. The shop is open 24/7 every day of the year. Even in the harshest of blizzards I have never seen the door closed. They sell crisps, chocolate bars and various other things you would expect of such a convenience store. It is after hours however when they really become something else. This is the only shop that will sell all types of alcohol at all hours. The staff are hardened as you'd expect; their clientele the late drinkers: poets after another bottle of inspiration, students after more beers and all the rest of it. The Best Supermarket is, well, what it is.

Yes it has all your desied goods!…read more Yes it is 24 hours! And yes you can satisfy pretty much any food or drink craving at any time of the day by getting something from here. But 'the best supermarket'?, i'll give them a little le-way for artistic license but I think they should perhaps pre-fix the name with 'Arguabley' then it will give them some margin for error! But seriousley, this place is pretty good, great to have a place of convieniance and open all hours, reliable and plentiful, not bad...

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.

Nice and handy with a wide range of stock for your convenience and bewilderment. Don't get me wrong…read moreit a great place but you look at some items and say I haven't those for years. Staff very nice to top it off.

So this is off the main road of Bath in a little center of businesses and from the outside we were…read morenot sure there was food there it appeared more business like. Please stop in as the food was delicious. You can eat in, there are a few tables but we walked back to our hotel with a still piping hot carry out. So glad we took the leap of faith to pop inside. Excellent Indian food, lamb stew with tandoori style rice or I could have had white rice. Several chicken options as well as I believe vegan. We liked that it was essentially a mini mart and will be back for the delicious food. The naan bread was great! Service was fast, polite and helpful. I thought the value was good especially for the food.

Just a great little store and convenient for LHR people on the go. You can duck in here and get…read moresome reasonably priced foods and drinks. If you don't want something that comes in a wrapper, head back to the little Indian style deli in the back for tasty samosas, and other selections such as chickpeas biryani and chicken jalfreezi. There is also a great selection of beer and wine available - really impressive for the size of the place. Some tables are also available if you want to eat your food there. Really convenient and decent.

Relatively large shop on the Arrivals floor. It had some interesting food options like fun dim sum…read more I guess it's meant for people arriving and on the go to grab some food cause they just got off a plane and are hungry. Serves a purpose. My time going there they had these special holiday timed themed offerings of gin and cookie tins, quite nice in my opinion. Several self checkouts. Staff seemed "busy" but were happy to stop when asked to answer my question. My only wish is they were available after going through airport security when departing (on the gates side). But that's no fault of the location.

Marks and Spencer is a "premium" brand. They sell higher-end clothing and housewares in their…read morelarger stores and recently started a branch selling convenience foods, with their "premium" quality. Prices are just a little higher than regular shops, but again, this stuff is excellent. Sandwiches, crisps, sodas, salads are all ready to eat. There is also an excellent selection of ready-to-heat meals, such as pizzas and soups and Indian foods. And some stuff that needs preparation, like salmon and chicken breasts and minced beef. This location is land-side, at the North end of the arrival waiting area.