It might be because I'm a northerner that I found the staff member who served me in here to be…read moresomewhat less than friendly. It was a beautiful sunny day, and I had to visit a client down the road so admittedly I just wanted some change for the parking machine. I wandered around for a bit wondering what to by that would give me a good return on the 'change for a tenner' front and opted for some generic organic smoothie thing. When I asked the till lady for my change in pound coins she sighed, gave me a right nasty look and reluctantly counted out the change, one coin at a time. Even though I was super polite and friendly and cheery and all 'I'm sorry to be a pain, thank you very much please thank you'. Ah well. Other than that, the shop was well stocked, the car park offered up to 2 hours free parking (not enough for me) for customers, and it was bright and nice enough.

i find the staff are friendly and helpful, getting you items you have forgotton when you are…read morequeuing at checkouts, and they do their best to open up a new checkout if your queue is quite long too. a wide range of prducts on offer, with many surpirsing finds that are good value too. great deals, plenty of room to get around the store, well laid out and the pharmacy is an added bonus.

This is going to be my favourite Chinese grocery. Only less than 15 minutes from where i live…read more Quite a big selection of products. Clean store. I have to queue for around 15 mins to pay for my shopping! They could have more checkout open during busy time! Funny there are 2 checkout counters, but only one is being used. The rest of the staffs just stand there watching the only girl working hard to serve the shoppers!

Good collection of Pakistani spices, fresh naan bread bakery and good Halal fresh meat & chickenread more

Just wanted to say how impressed I was with 'Pam' at Customer Services today. I had an issue with…read morereturning/swapping some baby items. Pam clearly has excellent communication skills and a lovely personality too . Well done Pam and thank you for your input. It was very much appreciated! Sally

A huge Tesco store - this really is a Tesco Extra. The store has a fantastic range of goods, both…read morefood and non food. There is a good clothing section (although as ever it has a much wider range of girl's and women's clothes than men's and boy's. In addition it has a large homeware / toy / party section. My only issue with this store is that despite a number of designated spaces there are hardly ever any Child and Family parking spaces. This leads me to the dilemma of whether I leave my toddler or baby in the trolley to potentially get run over while I put the other in the car. Many spaces are abused by people with no children and the store appears to do nothing about this. Prices at this store are good. There is also a petrol station which is competitively priced

I like Waitrose, but I do not love Waitrose! The disabled…read moreparking is convoluted to access. Not on regular route and have to want something special to go there.

A good shop with petrol pump facilities, and easily located, Waitrose also has excellent parking,…read moreand the place is always so clean. Waitrose's slogan is good food, honestly priced, and for me, this was like when Prince Charles said that food was too cheap. Don't get me wrong, it's not that they stock expensive food at expensive prices, I've never yet seen Beluga Cavier at £10 a pound, but it's that they stock products that I can get at other super-markets for cheaper, especially with the age of internet shopping on us. The staff are always very helpful though, and the shop has a very relaxed atmosphere about it for a super-market, and you don't feel stressed to the point you just want to charge around the store and get out. Because of it's size, Waitrose offers an excellent range of food, drink, media, and much more, and they're always fully stocked, even with their special offers and promotions.

nice clean store average prices but a little more expensive than a main tesco, they tend to have…read moreonly self service checkouts open towards the late evening.

This is a Tesco Express store at a BP garage. It has a reasonable amount of parking available and 2…read morecash machines outside the store. Inside the store has a reasonable range of food, most things you might need to pop out for are available there. Everything is slightly more expensive than at the main Tesco store on Prince Avenue. This store is generally well laid out and accessible with a buggy. However where this store really falls down is at the tills. It has no proper queuing area and while they have tried to create this using temporary barriers the queue tends to block access to the aisles. It is often very long - I have counted 25 people before, although more recently they have tried ringing the bell and summoning other staff when it gets busy. This sometimes works and the queue quickly diminishes, but often the staff prefer to chat amongst themselves rather than serve customers

Great mini Tesco shop attached to a BP garage. It is literally a minute's walk from Southend East…read moretrain station, so ver convenient for commuters to pick up shopping on the way home from work. They have a range of frozen and chilled meals plus fresh fruit, veg and bread as well as plenty of other basic items. The prices instore and for petrol are usually veyr good and they often have offers on sweets, crisps and other products.