Iceland Foods

This Iceland and the shopping arcade it is contained in are actually a time portal back to the 80s. Either that or this Iceland has not changed its signage since the very early 90s at best. Which isn’t really a criticism, I find it quite comforting in an odd, childhood reminiscing sort of way.
Its layout and décor really do take me back to being young. Back when John Major was the hero of our time and my mum took me to Shoprite because The Adults were all so skint we had to buy 9 pence beans. Good times.
Sorry — this is my reality, probably not yours. And if it was yours, it wasn’t all bad so cheer up.
So aye, back to the future, and this Iceland. Bargain food shopping can be a beast of a day out — you can’t argue with 3 litres of bottled water for a pound, or a massive bag of chips for £1.50. Times are pretty lean across the board at the moment, so Iceland is a good place to hit up if you’re wanting to save some dollars on biscuits and (of course), frozen food. My favourite of this category being fish fingers, which are the business on sandwiches lemme tell ya.
I guess what put me off a store I usually like was that, on this occasion, the first thing you encounter when you walk in the store is the booze aisle! I found this very depressing indeed. Product psychology is a dreadful and scary thing, so God knows what message the customers get when they are confronted with cheap booze before they get to the bread section! This will be a layout decision based on some faceless board of directors down in London, but I still think it’s rubbish that the booze is cosying up to the check outs.
Queues go down fairly quickly in here, and one of the younger girls working on the tills was a ray of sunshine. So if you’re looking for food on a budget in the Shawlands area, Iceland is one of your better bets.

There is plenty of choice for the discerning shopper in Shawlands: from Iceland to Farmfoods, it is possible to cover the complete range of cheap, processed product in a single afternoon. While the range of pizzas, burgers and so on are fairly generic– do not go for meals-​for-​one section, as they are false economy– Iceland does have cheap dairy products: milk, eggs and cheese don’t come cheaper than this, at least not in this bulk.
Of course, it is hugely frustrating to have to queue for ten minutes– only one till is ever on– but it is worth stopping off here for those bargains. I’d give the tins a once over too: it’s the same products as bigger supermarkets, at about half the price.