Campbell’s

I like this shop because it is an independent corner shop in the city centre where you would expect all the big branders like Spar and Centra to be.
I used to use it a lot when I was a student as I would walk here on my way to get the bus back to Derry and pick up the Derry journal so I could catch up on all the happenings before I hit the motherland.
It sells all the usual stuff but the prices are slightly hiked up because of its location and I guess just because it can with all the passing trade and the business men and women nipping out for coffee, chocolate, papers and snacks.
I don’t care that it is a tiny bit more expensive, its convenient on the walk to town, friendly and it has a good feeling about it.

When I worked in the Ulster Hall, this was my local shop.
It’s not a particularly exciting shop (it is just a corner sop after all), but I always really liked it in there because the staff were so friendly.
I used to have to call in in the mornings to pick up the papers and the girls there were always chatty and polite, which makes a change from some shops where you just get grunted at!

It’s hard to be particularly excited by a small, modestly sized local convenience shop but this little place does have one advantage.
Besides the range of the usual on offer, drinks, snacks etc they also have a superb range of weekly local papers, possibly better than anywhere else in Belfast. The range comprises the majority of Alpha group newspaper group (Ballymoney Chronicle, Coleraine Chronicle and Ballymena Guardian) There’s also, as far as I remember the Derry dailies as well, the journal and the news.
It’s pretty pricey for the usual items, snacks and drinks but that’s to be expected for the city.