Stirchley News

Pretty much a one-​stop shop for anything you could need, rather than a retailer of printed news as the name suggests. They really are doing themselves a disservice by underselling themselves so! This is also much bigger than a standard newsagent with aisles of goods stretching quite a bit further back than the shop front suggests. Beyond the usual things you’d expect from a newsagent they also do a selection of sandwiches but I must confess I’ve never tried these. You probably won’t be able to park out the front due to this shop being on the Pershore Road but if you’re on foot and find that you need something, anything, then chances are you’ll find it in here.

I think that this is a useful little convenience store and stocks quite a lot of things, which seems a little surprising considering they are only classed as a newsagents. It is fairly roomy inside and I popped in just to grab a few bits and bobs for my evening; so mainly snacks and girly magazines! The staff in there were really friendly and very polite, which always makes a nice change these days. I found what I wanted fairly quickly and ended up buying lots of junk food and about three magazines. They put it all in a bag for me and asked me what I had planned for the evening (although I think they could guess I had no exciting plans). Overall, I think that this is a really good store, it stocks more than expected and the staff are very pleasant.

It calls itself a newsagents, but really it seems to be a bit of everything: sandwiches, coffee, stationery, printing & faxing and it could probably cook your dinner for you and take the bins out.
There was even a personal door-​opening service when I visited. I’m not sure if the door is opened for every customer. I’d like to think they were just being chivalrous towards me personally, but in fact I think they were probably just wondering what the heck I was doing loitering outside their shop, taking photos of the front. That said, I was personally escorted out the door on the way out also, so they can’t have been that suspicious.
This seems extremely well stocked, if not a little bafflingly so: in a sort of ‘Is it a newsagent? Is it a café? Is it a stationers? Is it a home store?’ way. But then again, better to have too much stuff than too little, I suppose. The sandwich ingredients didn’t look amazing, I have to say. But I appreciated the slightly random doorman service.