The young lady who served me at the trolley self-service was friendly and massively helpful…read more I highly recommend shopping here. I was abke to efficiently purchase my shopping and left with a smile.

Simply amazing. I can't rave about this stores recent makeover enough. I feel I should get paid…read morelike a top PR the amount I have enthused for the new store... which was long overdue being modernised and this Summer saw Tesco Watford become the talk of the town and the nation, as it's the first to get the flash new overhaul and it made the news. Literally. The renovations were undertaken without closing the store and whilst I admit I did stop shopping here while they were being carried out, I returned, opening day, with a fist full of vouchers to entice me back. You now have to queue to get in the car park. But...it's worth it and they now have car park assistants who direct you to spaces (layout has changed in the car park and disabled bays are now near the main doors). Outside is the same except for the swanky new Giraffe restaurant we are lucky to have in Watford now... But that deserves its own review later! Inside. Customer services is in same place, bit small and under staffed for a super store perhaps. There's a new 'scan and shop' section which I still need to try but I see a lot if peeps are using it. Food to go area is fab. Think salad bar to help yourself, loads if sarnies to chose from and pre packed salad and sushi goodies. Also it's a good section to nip to if picnicking. Plus there's self serve tills for this section alone so it's super convenient. The new bakery. Wowsers. So middle class and rustic. I lurve. Wooden table a la farm house laden with baked goods and hearty loaves. Also a counter with lots of posh desserts (quite pricey) and cakes. It's quite hard to grasp this is now where all bread and cakes are though. But it's early days. The toilet is in this section. No sign though. Annoying. And only one in whole hench store which is disappointing. Harris and Hoole. Love the look. Great lattes. Will sample food am sure. Always busy and not keen on the buzzers they give you to wait for coffee. Bit ott. But there's a coffee cart directly outside store so I usually grab one there as less busy. Florence and Fred. Happy days. This section looks amazing. Trolleys are able to mooch the aisles and it really feels like a proper clothes store, better fixtures and layout/feel than Marks or Next. And stock is great, fab designs and cheap as chips. I always come away with something. Fitting rooms are spacious too. Rest of store super laid out. New pizza counter (still not a patch on Asda's counter pizzas though- listen up Mr Tesco!). Fruit and veg section is epic, so spacious and easier to navigate than before. Make up and health sections look great as does home wears. Proper department store vibes. Loving. Dangerous for my bank balance. Opticians and pharmacy both helpful and knowledgable. Tills are still bit queuey but lots of people are checking out the store so busier than usual I think. Defo worth a visit. You can spend a whole day in here which I guess is the point as it has a destination shopping feel now. They even do yoga and kids classes here. Massive thumbs up!!

I actually really like this Waitrose and is the only supermarket to be found between Sunningdale,…read moreSunninghill and Ascot without driving to the Sainsburys and Tescos in Bracknell or Staines. It's a good size - not overwhelmingly large but not so small it doesn't offer a choice. It's recently had a refurbishment with new checkouts and updated store design. You'll find reduced price bargains (meat and bakery) if you pop in just before closing on weekdays. They also have 'green' checkouts for customers who don't require plastic bags - cardboard boxes are usually available from behind the checkouts. There is free parking but this does get chocker with 44s, especially at weekends. Unless you have a disability, I recommend parking at the end of the car park. You'll reduce the risk of a BMW X5 reversing into you and you'll have a less stressful shopping experience. Because it's a smallish shop, you'll usually see the bright and breezy manager or deputy manager walking the floor - extremely unusual in today's supermarkets.

The supermarket itself is actually ok. Not too big, not too small. Has most essentials. Shopping…read moreexperience is not so great though. Lots of pepole that think they are the only person in the world, pushing trollys into you rather than showing some sensibility and going round you as you do to them. If you are not getting a trolley driven at you inside someone is driving their 44 at you in the car park. Incredibly badly designed car park and bad use of space. AVOID at all costs on a saturday morning!! Staff are very friendly though and couldn't do more for you, shame it is let down by the customers.

The issue with the Tescos is that unless you come at the start of the day after they have completed…read morea fruitful stocking night the shelves will be half empty, it will be mind-bogglingly busy and there may be stuff everywhere. However as this place is so huge you'll probably still find what you are looking for. Since I've lived in Oxford I've come here about a dozen or so times. We tend to try and stick to mid evening as the crowds die down a bit and they are not quite into their horrible restocking mode. Generally you can find fresh products and a wide selection of near everything (do not come to this Tescos if you are looking for home goods/ electronics/ etc). The prices as it is Tescos are decent. The staff are generally friendly as long as you're not getting the end of shift crowd. PROS: Large selection Good quantity of stock Price CONS: Gets ultra busy Leftover stock can be of bad quality Other side of the ring road.

This is known fairly widely as 'Big Tesco', to distinguish it from the Tesco on Cowley Road, and it…read morecertainly lives up to the name. It's got a huge range of items, although no adult clothing (other than underwear) or much in the way of electronics/media/toys, unlike even bigger stores. For groceries, though, it's got a lot to offer. Fruit and veg are of good quality and usually well-stocked. The deli and fresh fish counters offer a lot of choice, and they even have a large 'Polish food' section. They have two 'car trolleys' which amuse small (and big) kids greatly, and make the shopping trip easier with children who are too big for the trolley seats but too small to walk all the way around without whining. Staff are friendly and helpful, and offers on food are good value.

Had driven past this emporium many times and often wondered what it was like inside. One evening I…read moredesperately needed some frozen peas and Waitrose was shut so I decided to take the plunge. Well... what a truly surreal ordeal. An air-hanger-esque cathedral of produce awaited me. Guadily lit with bright white strip lighting. As well as groceries were countless aisles of cheap clothing, toys, games and various bric-a-brac. And the denizens were no less bizarre. There was a small boy dressed as the comic book character Spider Man running around unsupervised. Occassionally he would just stand there staring at me as I tried to locate the frozen vegetable section in this labyrinth of comestibles. A truly un-nerving experience.

Update: They have now refurbished the store. They now have about 12 self scan tills, a few normal…read moretills, Kiosk has moved to where the trollies were & the tills at the back have gone. They now also have 6 self-service tills at the front of the store, 4 main tills, 3 kiosk tills and 4 tills at the back of the store

Handy for the children when coming out of John Colet School. Situated just out of the centre of…read moreWendover, being an express store it does have limited product range but stocks all the essentials that you are likely to run out of. Parking can be bit of a problem as its in the layby in front of the store and fish and chip shop next door. We only use it if we have run out of the basics at a time when other shops are closed. They don't seem to stock the cheaper range of products so you will probably pay more than going into the larger Tescos.

The Express stores for Tesco were a great idea because they bought Tesco to the local community. I…read morethink it was also a bit of a sly trick to get around the Sunday trading laws because the Express stores can stay open for longer than the main stores. Basically you get a mini version of Tescos, but with not so much range of products. So if you want a particular brand of something, this may not be the place to shop. However, they are useful stores and this one is quite popular with the local community.

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!

Absolute waste of space my delivery slot was 9-10 delivering at 6pm ovcorse um not home that's why…read moremy slot is 9 not 6 now these scum have councild my order n my money comes bk in 5 days now I can't feed my children!!!! Trust me goes boycott these scum

Ok. I'm gonna say it. I don't care what anyone says size. does. matter. And this is the Mac Daddy…read moreof all the Tescos I've ever seen in all my 22 years. So excited was I that a woman was laughing at me whilst going up in the lift. Pharmacy, hair salon, butchers, bakers, candlestick makers...ok that last one was made up but still. Even better was their entire aisle (yes, a WHOLE AISLE) for 'free from' food which forced me to accept the fact that I'm a gimmicky salespersons wet dream as I walked out with a box of Gorrilla Crunch cereal just because it had a gorrilla on the front....the fact that about half the money per box goes to the rainforest was something of an after thought. I'm 22 damn it! 22!!

This is the smaller of the two Sainsbury's stores in central Oxford. Being a little bit more…read morecentral than the Westgate store, and with longer opening hours, it is naturally busier. The range of products is not as good as that in the Westgate and the prices are higher - a tub of houmous might be 5p more expensive here. It's not the place to do your weekly shop, but is convenient for little things that you might have forgotten to buy. Queues are long but fast moving at peak times. One thing that does put me off is that most of the fresh fruit and veg is pre-packaged, which means that a) you can't pick out exactly what you want, and b) you can't have smaller amounts than are in the bags.

Sainsbury's Local has a fairly good range of foods, with all the essentials and is usually…read morewell-stocked despite its popularity. It's quite hard to get into through the flow of pedestrians and queues for the bus on Magdalen Street, but it's well worth it. There are no surprises, and it's not really the height of luxury, but there's a good selection of fruit juices and a section of bakery goods and lunch time snacks/meals. Because it's only Sainsbury's Local, as opposed to the main shop, you don't really get the good Sainsbury's Basics deals or the more unusual foods, but there's usually a suitable alternative available. The queue often snakes around the shop and is very offputting, but it moves surprisingly quickly; they've got a very efficient system going, so don't be put off because of that. The most frustrating thing is trying to fit everything into a bag on the tiny counter, as the shop assistants work very quickly! Some are friendly, some aren't so, but you'll get your food for a reasonable price, so it doesn't really matter.