W H Smith

This is a lovely sized store, with a large selection of stationary goods and equipment as well as an excellent magazine section great for finding specialist magazines.
There is a good selection of books too, but annoyingly these are on the first floor and although there is a lift it is very small and slow, making buying shopping with babies or small children in a buggy somewhat of an ordeal! Similarly annoying is that the café is also placed upstairs

I use to like WHSmiths but after the awful post office move I rarely go in.
There are automatic doors and a flat entrance on the high street side but steps and push doors on the bus stops side.
On the ground floor are a limited number of special offer books, loads of magazines, stationery, drinks and choccy bars and DVDs.
The queues are usually very long as there are not enough staff on the tills so often I give up on purchasing anything.
Upstairs is the post office (do not go there unless you have an hour spare) and books but you are much better off going to Waterstones.
They do have a good range of magazines and apparently the best day to go in for magazines is Thursday as that is when they have a delivery.

The book department was made smaller in order to move the post office to W.H. Smiths. This was a BIG mistake. The queues for the post office are often enormous and take up most of the book section. Often the whole floor just seems to be in chaos.
The book shelves are usually out of order and a complete mess. There are so few staff I guess they just do not get time to tidy!