As corner shops go, this is actually a pretty good one. Not only does it offer everything that you…read morewant (plus a little bit more, actually. I was pleasantly surprised by the range of products on offer for such a small shop) but the service is pretty good. I actually just went in because I remembered that I needed milk on my way home from the doctor. First of all, I was happy that they stocked full-fat as K & C Stores never seems to have any. Then, realising that if I paid and left I'd be missing a golden opportunity for Yelping, I snooped around a little bit. However, a little bit boringly, there was nothing to report except a well-run, well-kept, well-stocked shop!

This is a huge supermarket located in Trostre Llanelli. The store has undergone various…read moreimprovements and expansions over the last few years and is now a massice store, probably a bit too big for me. It always seems a struggle whenever you visit to cope simply with the volume of people struggling to get around the store shopping. That said the store seems to sell a fantastic range or products with a pharmacy, a photo store and electronics counter. It has a fish counter and bakery and also a hot chicken counter too. The store is so big I wonder if you could see everything whilst walking around and I tend to miss essentials walking around.

Tesco Llanelli is situated on the edge of Parc Trostre and boasts plenty of free parking. The store…read moreis open 24 hours and also has a petrol station. They have a chemist, cafe and all the other usual facilities the larger Tesco stores come with. The store itself is huge and has a massive range of products. You can buy everything from ink for your printer to Polish foods. Their online service is also excellent and you can usually get a delivery slot for the very next day. Products come with good shelf life too.

A good place for cheap fruit and veg as they always have offers on, but the main reason to go is…read morefor the household goods they have. A large selection of quite random product at low prices, you may have to hunt around the shelves for what your after but its worth doing. The only down side are the queues with only 4 tills and only 2 open at any one time.

This is one of the local bargain supermarkets, personally I think it has some good offers on…read morebranded goods but I am not sure about all the unbranded items. If you can get there early on the weekend it has a great selection of fruit and vegetables at really good prices. I have heard that the freshness is not the best and some things don't last but I have never had a problem. Also have different themed offers like fishing or skiing for example with lots of really good valve items.

This is a big and shiny (though no longer quite so new) Morrison's in the centre of the new…read moreharbourside development in Barry. Although it's surrounded by new housing, it's actually pretty central, and only a 10 minute walk from the centre of town. It's also served by several of Barry's local buses. Although a lot of people are disparaging about Morrison's, I quite like this store: it's clean, bright, and well-stocked, and with wide aisles. The quality of fruit and veg is fine (not quite up to Waitrose standards, but then you're paying less) and it's large enough to cope with the most demanding weekly shop. There's an in-store bakery, cake shop, butcher, fish counter and delicatessen, as well as a fresh salad and fresh pizza counter. The large cafe at one end of the store is fine, if you need some sustenance before or after your shop, and it seems popular with pensioners and the odd family doing just that. There's a very large car park, and a petrol station with very competitive prices and reasonable opening hours (NB it doesn't open until 7am, so if you have an early start, fill up the night before). Other facilities include a cashpoint, customer toilets and recycling centre.

Easy to get to, competative prices and helpful staff…read more The cafe isnt cracked up to much but the salad bar in the store is nice. Morrisons is great at trying to get that 'market feel' with a bakery, deli counter, fish counter and butchers. The petrol station can be a pain - the layout is terrible and if it's busy it's hard to get out of the car park. They have just re-furbished this and i havent seen if they've actually changed the layout - i hope so though!

Great store with plenty of choice and availability. Staff are friendly. Reasonable prices.read more

I really like this Tesco store. I used to use it all the time when in Uni, and recently moved back…read moreto the area - is it possible to feel nostalgic about Tesco?! It's quite a good size without feeling like a warehouse. There's a pretty good selection of bargains on offer in the clearance sections. But what I really like about this Tesco is that they have now introduced a recycling centre that gives you green clubcard points on certain items (http://www.tesco.com/greenerliving/greener_tesco/what_tesco_is_doing/qa_recycling_centre.page ) Glass bottles and jars Steel/aluminium food & drink cans Plastic bottles (eg milk containers and soft drink/water bottles)

This is probably the best Tesco ever…read more If you thought the Tesco on Western Avenue was big, you should see this one. I think the actual food section is really only slightly bigger, but the clothing section upstairs is huge. If you like Tesco clothes, this is the best Tesco to visit. The Western Ave Tesco is having a bit of a makeover, and their clothes area certainly looks pretty fancy now, but they only occupy a small space. The clothes at Culverhouse Cross covers almost half of the second floor, and its nicely spread out so you can actually see the clothes on the hangers, rather than having to filter threw the rails for what's hidden at the back. This is also the best Tesco to go to for bargains. In the home section, you can pick up end of the line cups and plates for as little as 10p, and many other items are super cheap while you wont find them in other Tesco stores. I got all the things I needed for my new flat here for less than £1 for each item. I have never been so excited about Tesco as I was walking around this store.

The biggest Tesco I've ever been in, this one's even bigger than the newly-opened one in North…read moreBristol. The Bristol one used to be my local, so what's confusing about this one is that all the aisles are exactly the same- except it's left-to-right flipped. It's surprisingly confusing, especially if like me you tend to go into some kind of consumerist trance when you're supermarket shopping. I like Tesco supermarkets, particularly this one. Yes they're not the cheapest for everything but overall their prices work out very reasonably. They have a good range of stock on most food stuffs, they put the effort in in their larger supermarkets to stock more imported and exotic brands, and they sell decent ranges of things like electrical and clothing goods. Some of the electricals in particular are priced even cheaper than you'd find them online, which is a pleasant surprise. The cafe is useful as well. It sells plain but very cheap meals with no frills. I tend to eat here before doing the shopping rounds, because if I go round a supermarket while hungry, I buy far too much food. Decent parking, straightforward service, no problems.

City Bakery is a great shop, and is steeped in the time honoured tradition of the multi-cultural…read moreconvenience store, that of trying to cram as many products within its four walls as is feasibly possible, and blow the need for order! I love it! This shop is chock-a-block with goodies. Being a bakery it has a great selection of eastern sweet pastries and breads, but it also stocks a huge amount of exotic dry foods, tins and fresh veg. It's got everything, including household cleaning products, toiletries and perfumes, and even an attempt at proving the kitchen sink... they sell a small number of sundry stainless steel storage items! And, of course, they have the obligatory hookah pipes and associated paraphernalia. Basically, if you can't get what you want from this shop, you would be hard pushed to find it anywhere else. There's always a queue at the counter, which is heart-warmingly comprised of people of all cultures and ethnic origins. The people who work behind the counter could be accused of being a little sombre, but who wouldn't be when working such long hours every day of the week? These guys work hard with little reprieve, and there's no crime in being subdued... they are never rude, which would be a different matter entirely! This is definitely one of the better stores of this type on the City Road.

Not a bakery at all, as far as I could work out. More of a corner shop, really, which - as it…read moreshould - provides all of those things that you forgot to pick up at Tesco. And, not that you should really admit this, but I think I would normally go back to Tesco rather than to here. I don't know why this is because the prices are pretty good and there's all the basics that you need. I guess I was just put off because I was in a bad mood at the time and the service that I received wasn't great. Looking back on it, I'm unsure if this was my own foulness colouring all I did, or if the service actually was sub-par. In any case, as it provides all you need at pretty low prices it's become lodged in my head as one of those 'Oh, yes, I need to get some rice... oh, here's a shop'-type places.

This well stocked shop is packed with curiosities (curious to a Westerners eyes at least). Produce…read moreranges from red tofu in an eathenware jar to frozen dim sum pastry and an array of functional and decorative kitchenware. A lot of the food is labelled in both English and Chinese, those goods which aren't labelled in English can be translated by one of the friendly staff and unfamiliar food stuffs explained. Most of the ingredients here are really cheap compared to supermarkets. The dried nuts, beans and fruit are particularly good value and I often buy my wolf berries here. Man Fung also stock a fantastic selection of Sake (rice wine), which I am rather partial to. Top tip: Good place to get presents for your foody friends, as a lot of the packaging is beautiful and the produce unusual. Man Fung Store is open Monday-Sunday late.

A small but well-stocked Chinese supermarket, split across two rooms so if you glance in the window…read moreyou'll think it's only half the size it actually is. I pop here all the time for cooking sauces, it has a great range and is generally a bit cheaper, as well as having a more interesting range, than somewhere like Tesco. There are a lot of snack and novelty items- Pocky (biscuit sticks with different flavours of chocolate on- very nice with coffee), all sorts of different nuts and strange seaweed snacks. You can buy things like noodles in bulk. To be honest I would personally avoid some of the frozen meats here, especially the seafood stuff- not because I think it's dodgy, but because a lot of the stuff stocked here doesn't have any English cooking instructions on it and I'd be scared of poisoning myself by cooking something wrongly but that's just me being cowardly. As long as you're not a coward, and you like Chinese food, then this is a great place to get what you need for Chinese cooking at home. Enjoy.