Store!

If shops were friends, STORE would be your best mate. Always there, never let’s you down and you come to rely on them. One thing I’ve discovered that all the things you assume it won’t have, it will! I recently was delighted to grab some lemongrass half way through a cooking session! One thing though, milk goes off quicker than the label says.
Belting local store.

Store! appears to just be your average convenience store, and in mnay ways it is. It sells snacks, newspapers, a lot of things in tins, and a huge selcetion of booze.
However as it is located in the yuppie-​fied are of Castlefield; it has cleverly added a fresher food section where is sells parmesan, halloumi, parma ham etc.
Although this may appear to be cliched as a little middle class, i think it is great! It has solved many a halloumi crisis of an evening dinner and for this reason gets a good solid 4 stars!

In a rare display of generosity I’m giving this place an extra star for the name. Normally I’d abhor such lack of originality, but it’s the exclamation mark at the end that does it for me. It makes the place sound so relentlessly enthusiastic about what it is that i can’t help but smile.
As a store it also does pretty well (it’s a convenience store in case you were wondering), providing all the basics you’d need, throwing in the regulation ‘quirky’ items you laugh at but don’t want to try buying, and the prices are quite cheap. It’s clean as well, which is something you only seem to notice about these places when they’re not.

Situated at the foot of the Moho Building, Store! is the only convenience store in the area. For this reason it has to cater for all local needs, and it does do fairly well. Of course, if you need some gluten free organic almond seed shavings, its not going to serve your purpose, but for all your everyday needs, and a few extra treats, its perfect.
It covers all the basics, including fresh groceries, eggs and milk, newspapers and confectionary. The crisps section is genuinely remarkable, as they seem to stock every type of crips you’ve had since you were a kid, and probably thought were not still in production (perhaps I should have checked the best before dates). Anything from Discos and Nik-​Nacks to Space Invaders and Pringles, they’ve got it.
They also have a wide range of alcohols, including some pretty rare European beers not available at supermarkets, such as the Warstiener, which is delicious, and reasonably priced at 4 for under a fiver.
Its not your standard Best In/​Happy Shopper as its pretty smart inside, but they’ve resisted the temptation affecting other such places (i.e Spar) to rise their prices horrendously as if the customer is happy to pay the extra for the privileged of shopping somewhere with a glass front and a clean floor. Its not as cheap as a large supermarket but its cheaper than most independent local stores.
Some of its hidden gems include a £2 garlic bread with cheese, a loaf of bread with the thickest and stoggiest slices I’ve ever seen and some £1 washing powder.

so the shop is convenient and well stocked but the service is so very rude to the point where I will try not to use them if I can help it. I can’t be bothered to spend my money in a place where the staff act as if they can’t give a toss!

Store! is a convenient store with an exclamation mark. If you live in the base/​box apartment area in castlefield then it really is a saving grace because the next nearest shop is about a 15 minute walk. And nobody wants to walk 15 minutes there and back for a loaf of bread. That’s just annoying.
So, for myself at least, it is true to its nature. And it sells EVERYTHING. Toiletries, sauces, anchovies, refried beans. If you’re missing an ingredient you will find it here. Of course, they craftily up the prices like you might find in a cinema or on a train or whatever, because they know people are lazy and will pay more for having to move less. Fair play to them.
Thanks Store! and i’ll see you tomorrow for eggs.