Supershop Newsagent

Great newsagent! Friendly staff! Has a lot to offer. From usual newsagent items to Internet. Printing and photocopying services. Faxing. Photographs for passport and visa. Dry cleaning. Plus much much more. Excellent store!

Where can you buy a pint of milk, and ice pop, a lottery ticket, some masking tape, a range of empty jewellery boxes, a pot noodle, a petty cash tin, and a sewing kit? Clearly only at Supershop!
I love this place. It has two entrances — one on the main shopping street, and then another entrance/​exit at the back which leads you down past the back of the carpark towards the Jewellers Arms. Handy for me, as it means I don’t have to walk all the way around when I’ve run out of tiny luggage tags, or have a hankering for a cold flavoured water.
I’ve always found the staff friendly and helpful — I think as they’ve seen us a LOT they make the effort now. though literally EVERY lottery ticket I’ve ever seen them sell, the staff always say ‘OOH remember us if you win!’ or ‘I hope the jackpot finally come to Birmingham! Good Luck!’ and this never ceases to make me grin.

I didn’t even know the Big Peg had anything under it, let alone a newsagent with the back end of Ryman attached to it.
So I’m checking out the magazines they have when the shop keepers starts calling over, telling me he’s closing soon and I need to pick a book to buy, then keeps asking me what book I’m going to buy in a hasty manner. «None» I reply in a cool well delivered retort.
Truth is I was just killing time while my girlfriend looked at pencils or whatever but the shopkeeper was so crazy edgy it really put me off buying anything.
The front of the shop was a normal city newsagent set up (lots of porn) all your favourite drinks and snacks, plenty of tobacco. But the odd thing round the back was a massive selection of stationary, almost a separate shops worth. Lots of postage bags and packages too.
Not a bad place at all, just felt I caught the shopkeeper on a bad day.

This is a crazy little newsagent, located under the Big Peg in the main shopping parade.
They have an ok selection of magazines, covering most genres; lots of porn, hair, gaming, dogs, women’s weeklies, Asian weddings, tattoos… etc. I always judge a newsagent on their curation of the magazine shelves and whilst this place isn’t amazing, it does have a large range.
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that it sells office equipment, being under an office building and all but Supershop really does have the most random selection of stuff; from Pukka Pads to tights to WD-​40 to dish drainers — it’s not quite a supermarket but more like being in your grandad’s garage. A real convenience store I guess as you will always find the things you don’t expect they will have.
They also do photocopies which has been useful to me in the past as there is always an astronomical queue at the post office round the corner.