Despite their cringe-inducing, "Give it Aldi!" adverts, I really quite like Aldi. The German…read morediscount supermarket has improved considerably and has just been named supermarket of the year by consumer group, Which?. Aldi, like arch-rval, Lidl, stock a fairly limited range of mostly own-brand food, and weekly non-food special offers, such as DIY, motoring, outdoors, etc. By limited range, I mean that they tend to focus on a narrower spread of varieties of each product, I quite like this - because I tend to procrastinate... now which variety of houmous to choose? Regular, Peri-peri, red pepper, chilli-infused, etc. Keeping it simple speeds up my shopping no end! They now have a "deluxe" range too, like Tesco Extra Special or Sainsbury's Taste the Difference. For a city-centre supermarket, this is probably the best in Glasgow. Prices way cheaper than Asda, and a far wider range than the Tesco/Sainsbury's convenience stores. And with a proper fresh fruit and veg selection. This store is popular with students at the nearby halls, as well as Merchant City residents. Currently, twin pack red pointed sweet peppers are 79p - compared with around £1.80 in Tesco. 500ml Williams Bros beers are £1.60 or so, tinned tomatoes 30p, 6 large free-range eggs, 99p, cherry plum tomatoes 59p. The weekly super-six fruit and veg deals is epic, last week a bag of six oranges for 59p... amazing! A special mention has to be made for Aldi's Ribera del Duero red wine - this is absolutely one of the best budget (sub-£15) reds you can buy. Trust me on this, you'll impress the snobbiest of dinner guests with this one, it's awesome, and under £6. In summary, really good quality stuff, large range of fresh fruit and veg, good meat and chilled section, great booze, and who knows, you might pick up a bargain riding crop or air compressor!

Things I like about here:…read more It's really close to home The fruit/veg part is really well stocked and is of very good quality It has a random tat section You can get Williams Bros, Drygate and Brewdog beers for around £1.50 Overall, you get a lot of bang for your buck. Things I dont like: There's a tendency to wait until there are huge queues before opening another checkout - and then only having it open for 5mins. I wish it was bigger.

This shop has to be aimed at all the nearby office workers, due to no shortage of them…read more With shelves laden with sandwiches, wraps and rolls to go on their meal deal range, they seem to reduce food pretty early on the day to be sure that there is little to to bin at the end of the working day. I've seen at weekends like melon or even fresh asparagus for 20p. Sainsbury's are heading to the route of having little staff and more of those awkward self service counters. Overall the store has less variety & selection than a regular store but serves your basic need's.

This is the nearest Sainsbury's to my work so I pop into it quite a lot when I forget to pick up…read moreingredients during my main shop. Today I went in for a swede. I want to make stew and forgot to pick one up yesterday. Because I always go here after work and it closes early (i think it's opening hours reflect the surrounding office buildings), things start getting reduced at about 5 and I finish at 5 so always grab a bargain. I picked up half a swede, a small bag of new potatoes and a cauliflower all for the princely sum of 90p! They didn't have any vegan butter which I also planned to pick up but I will survive without it...for now. This place recently got self scanners which amuse me because as usual there was a man telling everyone to come use them but only 1 person on the actual checkout and a huge queue. Self scanners annoy me.

Super convenient to my hotel, this place was a godsend. Anything you need from a munchy…read moreperspective, this place has it. People were always restocking shelves so you had plenty to choose from. We used both the self service and the manned checkout stands and they were equally efficient. Aisles were wide and the place was very tidy. If I lived nearby I would probably be in here every day.

This is one of the newer Tesco stores located in the central area in Sauchiehall street…read more This shop is well stocked with unusual imported foods that you would find hard to get in an international food store, I'm in general not a fan of Tesco and will only shop there if there is no where else open late. I find the security staff intimidating and rude I think one guy there has mummy issues and should really have counselling and not be taking his anger out on customers who do no wrong. The self service section is a joke as half of them have not been switched on and the one l used made me feel as if l just won the jackpot on a fruit machine in a pub, how can a shop justify paying a customer 62p change in 2p pieces. Ice cream that has been defrosted is being re frozen and sold again when l reported the issue to the duty manager he did nothing. Tesco sort yourselves out!

I've never been a fan of Tesco stores, I've always thought the idea of a Tesco shop a few doors…read morefrom another Tesco store that has another Tesco store just around the corner is just a little too creepy and leaving no room for the smaller guy that is already struggling. When I was last here there was a pretty bad stench where the vegetable section is l was told that it was a bottle of TCP that someone broke a few says earlier & they couldn't get rid of the smell. With these smaller Tesco metro style shops they tend to stock a smaller selection, with pretty narrow aisles, you definitely couldn't get two trolleys down those aisles. Quite often at this store there is cages left in the shop filled with rubbish where there is already no room to pass. Free cash machine outside.

This place is fine for a convenient store but if not for convenience I wouldn't choose to shop…read morehere. At certain times of day I actively avoid it. They have the basics and they've been extending their selection of Polish, North American and Carribean foods, as well as including more Halaal options and a few other bits and pieces. They're definitely doing better in terms of their selection than they were a few years ago. You can probably find most of the items you really need here, but don't expect anything too out of the ordinary. They are clearly desperately pushed for space, though. The shelves are stacked quite high and the aisles are really narrow. Their standard time to restock seems to be at around 17:30 most days and, combined with the narrow aisles and the rush of people dropping in to get groceries on their way home during rush hour, this just feels like awful timing. It can be really difficult to navigate around the store. Also, staff just stop to have conversations in the middle of aisles quite a lot. I get it, it's probably pretty boring at times, and I've never minded staff chatting, but they always seem to do it right in the way of the items I need... Maybe I'm imaginging it! On the plus side they have a pretty fair selection of wine and beer for such a small store. Beer more so than wine, but they're holding a few of my favourites now so that keeps me happy. Sure, it's convenience store prices mostly, but occasional offers make it worth it. Note: There are two Tesco Expresses near here. This review is for Tesco Express Yorkhill (at 1071 Argyle Street), kind of opposite Lebowski's. The second one is the Tesco Old Dumbarton Road Express, is newer and is kind of across the road from Firebird.

For that wee special delicacy it's always worth popping into Waitrose. I wouldn't use it as a…read moreregular supermarket though, it's just too pricey for that. Morrisons is more in my budget range for the weekly shop, but there's always something in Waitrose to tempt you into spending more than you intended when you came in. Of course, all supermarkets want to do just that, but Waitrose seem to manage it more easily than most. This branch isn't huge, but it's somewhere larger than a 'metro' size and has more in it than you would think. They've even opened up a wee coffee bar at the front now, which seems to attract a few thirsty shoppers. The upstairs car park gives them a big advantage over Tesco and M&S farther down the road for bulk shoppers with deep pockets, but for me it's always a hand basket '5 items or less' style of visit.

The whole of the G12 postcode seemed to have a collective orgasm when Waitrose opened…read more Conversations in coffee shops shifted from bandwagon-jumping politics to whether or not Waitrose sold quaill's eggs, and it's arrival was exactly what the West End needed. Not only did it provide reassurance to it's residents that they were just as middle class as those from the nice parts of Edinburgh, but it allowed the West Enders to finally ditch their transparent bohemian pretence and concentrate on what's really important in life, like eating pheasant. When people talk about Waitrose it's position as a status symbol never seems far off their lips, but the quality is there too. If you're after something a bit special for dinner they sell countless brands you won't find elsewhere, and things like veal and venison that are often unavailable in other supermarkets. Well laid out, well stocked, and with a token nod to the fairtrade ethos if you feel guilty about spending a tenner on a loaf of bread. I'm glad they've arrived.

When in town, this is my petrol station of choice if I need to fill up. Mostly because I don't…read morereally know of any other petrol stations in town/West End (are there any?!) and because they now have pay at the pump which I really appreciate. If you do have to go inside, it can be a bit of a faff as they have a weird queuing system for paying for petrol and a separate queue if you're just in the shop buying things. There's a cash machine out front, and the shop inside is a reasonable size. So yeh, I don't mind a visit to this Sainsbo's (as I like to call it) and find it pretty convenient for petrol/snack needs.

A saving grace when you need to do a little shop on the way home. Convenient, and has an army of…read morecheckout tills to reduce queues at busy rush hours. It's stocked with a good selection of foods - far above the average corner shop - even pizza bases can be bought here, which was great when I was ordered to buy pizza supplies last minute for a make-your-own pizza night. Makes parking simple too when it's got a drive in petrol station attached! Not overpriced either. All in all - pretty darn good.

I still can't believe how quickly this Lidl opened for business - they haven't even finished the…read morebuilding above it yet! It's pretty large for a Lidl and has all the stuff you would expect including the central 'grab-a-bargain' bins of random stuff and shelves of strangely-titled products that look like familiar British brands but carry different names... hmmm. Isn't there some trading law about that sort of thing? The bakery section had some nice stickies, and there is a fairly extensive frozen section that's worth having a look at for something a little different. We tend not to buy the fresh produce at Lidl, having once bought a bag of mandarins that all turned completely green and rancid practically as soon as we got home, since then we've always been slightly suspicious about just how long things have been on the shelves. I'm trying not to see it as the competition for Morrisons just across the road that it inevitably is; there are some things that Morrisons do better, and some things that Lidl do better, so in theory they should be complementary. The downside of this of course, is that it means a two-supermarket trip every week.

tesco st enoch centre glasgow…read more I have lost count how many times i try to buy my brand of cigarettes kensitas club superkings only to be told no stock. this has been going on for over a year very poor stock control you are a supermarket the small local shops are better stocked. yes its an awful habbit but im still a customer maybe someone will up the ordering............i doubt it though poor show tesco

It's handy to have a decent sized Tesco in the City Centre. I mean, it's no Tesco Extra, but it…read moremanages to stock most of what you'd expect, and a fair bit of what you wouldn't, within a relatively compact space. Generally these days, if I'm in the City Centre and my shopping list consists of much more than eggs, milk and bread, this is where I go. Their range is just that bit wider than that of their nearest neighbours and that makes all the difference. I don't want to have to visit four city centre supermarkets to find cornflower, for example, so I just start here. The other advantage of a slightly larger store is that they have more price point options than your average convenience store. It still won't be the cheapest possible shop, but for at least some items they'll have the "budget", the "regular" and the "luxury" options to choose from. They also have space to run just a few more promotions and, as they insist upon reminding us, every little helps.

Pretty much what you'd expect from a city centre branch of Tesco Express. It's a good place to pick…read moreup a few basics and essentials but don't expect it to have all the cheapest options available or any specialist ingredients. It's your standard convenience store. There's a free cash machine just outside. Inside there are sections for sandwiches and lunch items, fresh fruit and veg, some fresh meat, fish and dairy items in chiller cabinets, a small frozen section, mostly dedicated to pizza. Dried canned and tinned goods, magazines, beer and wine and a small toiletries section. They have a couple of regular checkouts, normally with just one of them being operated at they have a couple of self service checkouts. The staff are pretty good - they're efficient and friendly and tend to anticipate when the self service checkouts will need attention.

Well laid out store. Good variety of different booze ... mosly beer, Scotch and wines from…read moreScotland and the Continent. Good selection of cheeses ...and Scottish salmon (with potato scones for brekkie). What's not to LOVE about Scotland? Fantastic breads and baked items and yogurts from Europe.

Sometimes you just want some carrots. An apple. A sandwich. And a bottled beverage. Or a…read morecookie. Answering that call: Marks and Spencer Simply Food. Where else, within Glasgow Central, would cater to all my gastric whims, while still allowing me to catch a soon-to-depart train? Were it not for M&S, I would be a writhing, starving mess huddled alone in a corner with an expired travel visa. But thanks to them, I was able to grab a sandwich sampler, some fruit and veg, a drink and dessert (all for well under 10 pounds) and eat my bounty on a train bound for Edinburgh. My food was delicious and reasonably priced, given the food court/train station prices as a benchmark.

I've always been a fan of Marks and Sparks, specifically their food, and with it's location in…read moreCentral Station, the benefit of convenience becomes another string to this store's bow. However, while M&S food is almost always good, a few bad eggs can still slip through the net, as the frankly revolting chicken ceasar wrap I got the other day showed. It's rarely I describe a food item as "gross", but it's truly the most befitting description for this lunchtime disaster. 99.9% of their stuff is still excellent so don't let it put you off.