Factory Shop Frozen Foods

A strange place, this, and you might walk past it a few times before you realise what it is. It’s essentially a cheap and cheerful place to buy frozen goods. Some frozen food is absolutely revolting and laden with salt and other bad stuff. Some frozen food is absolutely fine, it just happens to be frozen.
I’ve never really considered where and how they get their stock — presumably there is some sort of Cash and Carry Warehouse where the stuff that Supermarkets reject, due to broken packaging, or some other Brand Damaging reason, goes to get snapped up by places such as this. I wonder if it’s the same place where the vegetables that don’t look like they should get sent? Anyway, this produce is frozen, so there’s nothing wrong with it. If you have a freezer, check this place out.

I’m not going to beat around the bush here. Neither Factor Shop Frozen Foods name (which sounds like one of those awful, cumbersome working titles that they give to films that are still in production, like the way the first Star Wars film was originally called «The Adventures of Luke Starkiller as Taken from the ‘Journal of the Whills’: Saga I — Star Wars») or its appearance (it looks like a recently bought premises that’s yet to open properly as a shop) do it any favours. I must have walked past this place a dozen times before I actually realised it was an operating retailer. As the name suggests, they solely sell a great range of frozen goods at quite frankly incredible prices. I’ve always found the food to be of a good quality, so don’t let the shop’s appearance fool you. The shop isn’t the best organised and it can be confusing trying to ascertain whether they do what you’re looking for, but the proprietor is always very friendly and has offered his help every time I’ve been in.

There are freezer cabinet along the walls, on the walls, and forming aisles in this a small shop. These cabinets are loaded with un-​boxed, and un-​branded packages of frozen ready-​meals that you’d find in supermarkets for 4 times the price that you get them here. You can buy bags of un-​coated fish and chicken, as well as breaded varieties. Boned chicken portions in hot and spicy and southern fried seasoning are also options. Most for a couple of pounds each. The stock is always changing and seems to be ordered in on the basis of what they can get in stock for the cheapest price. Sometimes they even get airline meals in. If I’m in a feed-​myself-​for-​a-​fiver-​until-​pay-​day situation I’ll score a kilo bag of chicken steaks from here for £3 safe in the knowledge that they’ll go far.
If you are a condiment fan, (I sometimes only eat out to make use of the sachets), you’ll be pleased to find that this shop stocks the whole line of Crucials Sauces. These squeezey bottles hold sauces such as Thai Style, Burger Sauce, and Garlic Mayonnaise, and these are perfect to adorn whatever frozen goods you’ve taken home. Proud Brummies will be glad to hear that these are made just up the road in Duddeston.