XL Stop & Shop

Promises more than it delivers, this one. It looks quite large and fancy from the outside, but inside it is relatively bare. Although it does many of the convenience store essentials, such as the fridge of soft drinks, those ubiquitous muffins and the chocolate bar range, it falls down in one crucial area. It had no bread.
That’s right, when I went in at, I grant you, 12 o’clock last night, there wasn’t a sliced pan to be seen. Not even a McCambridges brown loaf or a hardening French baguette. As everybody knows, Irish people are powered by sandwiches, so this is a serious sin of omission.