Tesco Extra

This is my favorite food shop. The staff are friendly and other than their new café it is great. Whenever I leave town it is the first place I stop before I go home.

This is a huge Tesco Extra, and it’s in a really convenient location on the very western edge of the town just off the M181 (M180 J3). It has a massive car park and a petrol station, and is just opposite a retail park with B&Q, TK Maxx, Next, ToysRUs and McDonalds, KFC, Frankie & Benny’s and a large family pub. Also just across the road from Scunthorpe United Football Ground, so it does get extremely busy on a weekend, especially match days.
Inside, you’re faced with a massive store that sells almost everything. They’ve got loads of food and drinks, homewares, electricals, toys, clothing and garden accessories.
There used to be a café/​restaurant, but it has recently ben replaced with a Costa so not much good if you want food, but fine for a cuppa.
There are Direct desks too at the door, so you can collect anything you’ve ordered online to save on P&P charges.
Loads of tills, always loads of staff — a really good place to shop.

Fantastically huge Tesco store. There is everything here you could possibly want or need. The entertainment isles are endless with lots of DVDs, CDs and games, mostly at competitive prices. There also seems to be rather a lot of homeware and kitchenware. the store has recently been refurbished to include a pharmacy and opticians as well as a Costa Coffee.

I’d not visited a Tesco Extra store before, so this one was a new experience for me. I can best sum it up by saying that it’s simply vast.
I stopped here to buy some petrol on the way up to York — and ended up having a cup of coffee in the in-​store Costa Coffee. I’m not quite sure how I would cope using this for my ordinary weekly shop, but I’d certainly need comfy footwear. The car park is huge, the frontage is long, and the aisles seem endless. You could probably fit St Paul’s cathedral in several times over.
That said, it’s got everything you could possibly need in the grocery line; the services include photo-​processing, pharmacy, opticians, newsagents, car wash, jet wash, petrol station, and there’s a recycling point and a cash-​point. Ranges include clothes, their Asain, Afro-​Caribbean, Polish and ‘World foods’ (presumably everything else?), with fresh meat and fish counters, a delicatessen and cooked chicken counter.
The store is fully accessible, with customer toilets and baby-​changing facilities.
The car park has what look to be wind turbines whirling around — I wonder if they generate electricity?