This is a decent size store. Usually have well looked after produce and always sporting some good…read moredeals. Lots of parking and a decent range. If you need meat for dinner tonight they usually have single pieces from the fresh counter in a special fridge alongside. Good value for money.

Says what it does on the tin apart from one small fact. They have the politest staff.read more

If you're into cooking Indian/Bangladeshi/Pakistani dishes at home, this store has a full selection…read moreof ingredients for you. When I first moved to this area, I bought a great Indian cookbook and I stocked my spice cabinet with purchases from here. I keep coming back. The staff there provide "no nonsense" service. A nice benefit is that while you're shopping, they're playing slamming music sometimes. One time I liked the tune so much I dared ask for the name of the CD. The checkout clerk unsmilingly wrote it down for me, told me where to buy it (further down the street on Brick Lane); he definitely hooked me up! (another time I ended up buying a car here too, but that's a story for another time and place!)

If you are looking for Indian / Pakistani / Bangladeshi Groceries in Central London, Taj Stores is…read morea great place to pick them up. They sell spices in bags ranging in size from 100gms to 5 kilos and the price is way lower than even Tesco. For those who know what these are: Taj stocks Maggi hot & sour masala chilli sauce, Roohafza & fresh curry leaves (almost impossible to find anywhere in central London) Its a sprawling store with huge variety & great prices. They have fresh fruits & vegetables too. Plenty of namkin, spice pastes, pickles, variety of dhal & rice. Definitely worth a visit if you are in the area.

I previously shopped in Asda and then most recently started to shop in Sainsburys, Cow Lane. Up…read moreuntil today my experience here was amazing, great food great service. But today sadly Sainsburys has reduced the tills and installed self serve tills. I really dislike this and that is why I gave up with Asda. A very bad choice made. I like to be served, call me old fashioned but it makes the whole experience better. I will seriously have to rethink now where I do my weekly shop.

accidentally left a couple of my items behind after paying at the self checkout and walked away…read morewithout realising, as I was putting my bags in my car I realised I had left a few bits behind, turned around to go back and get them but the security Mohammed was already there with my forgotten items, he literally chased me across the car park To return them! really friendly and helpful guy just wanted to say thanks

Has pretty much everything you need, including pharmacy, electronics section and butcherread more

This Sainsburys is quite near to St Albans City Centre and has ample parking outside and also 2…read morecash machines. There is a bakery, a pharmacy, a dry cleaner (Johnsons), a butcher and a fishmonger. The left hand aisles of the store are dedicated to toys, home furnishings and cds/dvds and books. This store is perfectly big enough for you to buy just about anything you would want from a supermarket. It has 2 aisles of alcohol for you to choose from. The queues are never too bad and there are several basket only checkouts. There is also a cafe. It is uninspiring but functional.

Nothing special about this Sainsburys store at all. Recently refurbished so now stocks a mixture of…read morefood / non-food goods. They do seem to have many offers on each day with a healthy selection of reduced to clear items down each aisle. Staff are friendly although a customer in front of me didn't think so and was accusing the staff of stealing a voucher from him! If you're local to the store it's more than suffice to do your weekly shop.

I think it's MARVELLOUS that Tesco®, in Borehamwood, is GIVING AWAY some of their Sunday trading…read morebusiness to Lidl®, Aldi®, B&M®, Farm Foods® and Morrisons®, etc. For example, their new rule TODAY (Sunday 21st Sept 2025), is that NO trolleys, not even the shallow ones, are allowed in the Store after 3:25pm, so the elderly, infirm, or people with weak legs or, like me, have a bad back, who rely on them for support, have been generously redirected to use the main rival local supermarket businesses instead. Tesco® clearly DO NOT need all THAT money OR the peoples' loyal custom, so "they" are helping the OTHER stores in the town by giving away a fair amount of business trading. And a BIG plus; I spent barely a third of what my similar shopping normally costs in Tesco®, so that has instantly CHANGED my shopping habits, with a huge win for my savings. I imagine it has helped ALL the other customers who walked away today, equally shocked and disgusted with their betrayed loyalty to a store that shows CONTEMPT and DISREGARD to the shoppers that helped establish its business.

Situated on the site of the original movie studios of Moby Dick, Superman and other movies now sits…read morea two story Tescos. I had not been in a UK supermarket for 14 years and I have to say they have changed. It reminded me of a french hypermarket, very plain and boring inside with just shelves of food. What happened to the well presented nicely displayed merchandise. I guess times have changed and Tescos is too busy with volume to warrant spending the time on presentation and repair. Cheap goods placed on shelves. Thats what you will find here. Confusing one way car park, and dont forget your pound coins for the trolleys! Still there's always Morrisons!

The Turkish Food Centre is a large supermarket where you can find cheap imports form turkey, and…read moreother Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries. It is a joy to live near by, open 365 days of the year, 8am to 10pm without fail. Organic vegetables, tomatoes bursting with colour and flavour. They have a large delicatessen where they have a large selection of olives, Halal meats and cheeses , and make their own Turkish bread on site too. It all has a lovely smell of when you walk in. They have absolutely everything that a Turksih Chef would need. My family shop here virtually everyday to get bread and other certain thing they might need for whatever is being cooked. For quantity, it is by no means competition for any large supermarket chains, but as for quality, it definitely is. It is a regular for me.

This is the smallest Tesco Express out of all the four in Watford…read more I'm sooo grateful for this store it does save you going to Tesco Extra (24)hrs which is in the lower part of the High street, but this store is more central. The store is convenient, so it does have all the essentials. Its got the "food to go" bit for the grab something for lunch crowd, plus it also has a Costa coffee machine and they sell flowers also they have some ethnic foods which they managed to squeeze in. The offers are good as well, placed cleverly when you enter in, whether that's Alcohol or Junk food. Their customer service is so so, but they get the job done. It's my local so I'm always in here.

Literally saved me on a Sunday in the late evening. With not much else open and in rainy weather…read more(it's London, so it's always chancing rain really), Tesco had exactly what I was craving at night: ice cream bars. You can never say no to ice-cream, even if it's really your dinner with some hot coffee curled up on the couch during a NCIS marathon.

Tom has just delivered my Christmas order. He was running a bit late. First the shop rang to…read moreapologise then I had a text . Despite the fact he had four more deliveries Tom cheerfully helped unpack the boxes, explained the odd substitution and again apologised for running late. I can't fault the service from Waitrose. It's busy Christmas and they saved me shopping. Excellent. Merry Christmas and I hope the staff enjoy the rest. They deserve it.

I usually pop to this shop to buy fresh prawns as they are the best for 10 miles that I have found…read more Waitrose being part of John Lewis the prices are high for regular goods, but the basic things are generally of a high standard. Ranges are more for quality than turnover. The store is convenient on the edge of town, parking is fewer than a hundred spaces. The store is small but has a good range of fresh and frozen food. You can pick up a good wine or whiskey too. For standard drinks, cereal, biscuits, etc. I would go somewhere cheaper.

I prefer going to Sainsbury than Tesco's. I would like them to stop increasing the prices of Linda…read moreMcCartney mozerella burgers, as one day I can buy them and they are £1.75 and the next week they are £2.50, this is so wrong as we are not talking about a few pennies here. The service is where I have to have a gripe. I prefer going to a check out and having a cashier scan my items. I do not like self-service at all. sometimes I will visit the store and there are no cashiers, so i am forced to go to a self-service to scan my shopping, i have real issues with doing this, as i not only have arthritis in my hand but have a poor eye-sight. This week, no cashiers again and so I was once again forced to scan items. Fortunately, for me one of the shop assistants, Tizi helped me, she was kind, professional and efficient, very pleasant lady. Last week, there was one till open and the queue of customers was long. There was team leaders/supervisors standing around chatted and when I asked for another till to be opened, she was abrupt and pointed to the self-service and said one of those is free, without even looking me in the eye. How rude! That is my only gripe with Sainsbury in the Parade. I will sign off with being positive about the shop assistant who was very helpful. Thank you Tizi.

For all it's worth, this supermarket just isn't bad! After a refurbishment a good few years ago,…read morethe store looks bigger, it has more stuff in it and looks like it can compete with other, much bigger, supermarkets around the area. The food on offer and the merchandising has been done VERY well and the offers are nicely spread out. I like it here and would automatically go back if given the chance. I'm not giving it a perfect score because it's location is just so poor. The main entrance is off a small side road and the car park is too restrcitive to make a decent enough turnover. Just not quite there yet!