Shopright

There is way too much in this shop.
I can see why, and I can see how it might be a good thing to cater to the needs of as many people as possible and sell as much food as you can fit on the shelves without causing the whole building to sink into the ground, personally I’d rather visit the more sparsely stocked Tesco further up City Road.
I only visit convenience stores when it’s absolutely necessary to do so, but this store does tend to defeat the point of popping in to get something quickly when you have to spend half an hour finding it.
I’m not totally confident that I want anything from this shop either, with most of it looking like it’s been on the same shelves for years.
And, despite the huge amount of everything else they sell here, I can never seem to get a general national or even local paper in here. Irish papers and papers in languages I can’t read, sports and financial, sure. But you standard newspaper? Apparently not.

A convenience store in the true stack ‘em high/​price ‘em low sense, Shopright resembles what might happen if you threw the entire stock of a medium-​sized Tesco into a building a tenth of the size. There’s a quite frankly daunting amount of groceries in here, from essentials to snacks, including enough crisp and cake lines to last the aftermath of a nuclear war. The magazine selection is impressively exhaustive and all your regular corner shop services such as National Lottery, bill payments and the like are ticked off. The mini in-​store Halal butcher is a tad incongruous but a welcome extra for anybody wanting to make a single shopping stop, although the nervous may prefer their meat from brighter, more modern surrounds. Check near the till, meanwhile, for special offer discounts and don’t let the Spar-​as-​relocated-​to-​Eastern-​Europe vibe put you off: City Road doesn’t offer anywhere else that covers all convenience-​based needs as thoroughly as Shopright.

More like Shopwrong, boom boom!
Commonly referred to locally as the Green Shop, this is a fairly big grocery store with a wide and extensive selection of Indian food and ingredients for every form of curry you could possibly conceive. There’s also a small halal butchers at the back for your meaty needs, far too many cakes (I mean a bewildering amount of cakes) and the full range of Rubicon juices. The closer you get to the till the more like your average newsagents it becomes with the staples of newspapers, four packs and chocolate present.
Sounds great doesn’t it? Well there’s one piece of advice I’ll leave you with. Check the date on everything you buy. I once bought small tub of ice cream there that was over nine months out of date (I ate it, naturally). And it wasn’t a one off either. It seems that they can’t keep track of all the stock they hold. Or they simply don’t care about trading standards.
So if you require a massive bag of chevda or some spices for an authentic biryani then head here, but read the best before date before you part with your cash.
Also one of the few places to have a free cash machine, two in fact, on City Road.