Halfords

This Halfords store is in the Middlebrook retail park, located near the branch of Currys PC World.
I am not a regular visitor of Halfords or car stores like this, so I don’t have much to compare it with, so I will just mention about the store and make of that what you will.
They do free Winter Checks here, to make sure your care is prepared for winter. I noticed something in the winter and checks like oil, seem to help especially in the Winter. I did not get this done however.
This store seems to be a specialist in bikes, As this isn’t the biggest Halfords store, a good percentage of it must be on bikes. They even have a guarantee, that if you make a deposit they will find a bike right for you.
On my recent visit here, I had to pick up some oil for my car, I still didn’t understand why I couldn’t use the Extra Virgin Olive Oil, I use to make Gluten Free Pizza bases.
This branch of Halfords doesn’t seem like the nicest store for layout and colour scheme, when you walk into PC World Currys for example it is like the layout is from a complete different decade, PC World Currys being better as you would expect from a store all things technology, but I don’t think you would expect the store to be high up on cleanliness and looking nice for a store like this.
I don’t normally visit stores like this, so make of my opinion what you want but I don’t feel this store deserves more than 2 stars. I am mainly dropping stars for the following reasons
— The Layout, Cleanliness and colour schemes
— The staff appeared to be messing about slightly, when they could of been helping customers
— With a good percentage of the store specialising in biking, I would say Halfords need a slightly bigger store so they can fully specialise in all the areas the Company does such as Motoring, Biking and Travel Equipment.

We’ve used this place several times over the years and are quite satisfied. It’s part of the Middlebrook Retail Park, which means that parking is free — although there can be a huge volume of traffic around and so queueing to get in or out is quite common (especially on match days). The store is not the biggest, but we’ve never had any problems in buying the stuff we’ve needed (principally for our kids’ bikes); the staff have been generally helpful and efficient and the prices have been quite reasonable. So all in all: no complaints.