Costcutter

New in the area to Bethnal Green and its a good little super market. They have everything you need for light fares and the prices aren’t terrible at all. There are two bus stations near by and on the weekends there is a farmers market next to it too for even fresher produce. Easy place to get some soda, eggs and all the basics.

This is a great shop, very handy when passing and requiring some of life’s essentials — it has almost everything you could want, and is open beyond midnight at weekends. Staff are cool, and always prepared to offer help n advice.
The big bonus is it’s not Tesco or Sainsbury’s!
Those damn supermarkets will be the ruin of small independent traders.
You mainly find that the Costcutter’s is cheaper than the aforementioned giants.
I too await it’s fate with the ongoing development of the area.
Dalston will probably end up looking like every other town centre with a sterile, boring array of high street shops, and lose it’s wonderful diversity and personality.
Rant over, and relax.

A bit pointless really, Tescos up the road!

My best mate lives up the road from here, near to the smaller Costcutter off Graham Rd, but when we’re on the way to his place and have to walk past this shop, we always have to pop in.
Open until very late, the staff are SO friendly, and always ask you what you’re up to with a cheeky glint in their eyes. They’ve got a huge selection of booze and always have a great ‘6 for £5′ offer on some rank lager or another.
Costcutter does just that, with bread and milk coming in at a wee price, a really decent local supermarket, I just wonder how it’ll fare when the redevelopment of Dalston junction is complete in 2010… until then…

A few of my friends live around the corner from this Costcutter and I always enjoy popping in here to buy sweeties and a bottle of wine. The guys that work here are a bunch of comedians that chat away to each other, cracking jokes and dishing out free chocolate to the regulars. They are also pretty knowledgeable about wine and recently started selling Buckfast (gross tonic wine made by Devonshire monks) at the persistent request of my insane Irish friend who also persuaded me to write this review.
They are surprisingly well stocked for a Costcutter and combined with the local Turkish food shops and the fruit and veg sellers to the nearby market make it quite possible to avoid the larger supermarkets in the area. It’s always nice to know you can have a bit of banter with your local shop keepers and that if you do turn up a few pennies short, they will let you off until next time and offer you a bit of pizza or kebab if there’s any going spare.

In the 1890s Harrods famously said you could buy anything in the world at its Knightsbridge store — if they didn’t have it, they would order it. Well, I’ve found the convenience store equivalent — Costcutter, Dalston Lane. There is no item the store-​keepers won’t try and get for you.
Imagine the obligingness of a royal servant but in the body of an Arab with limited English and with the demeanor of a friendly cabbie. Spend a few seconds looking round and you will have one of the store-​keepers asking what you want. Request an elephant and not only will they say they can get one, they’ll ask you if you want African or Indian.
But there’s more, they actually try to negotiate you down. I’m serious. Twice now I’ve gone there and bought a few snack items and have been told at the counter that if I got that instead of this and swapped this for that, I’d save 20p! I’ve also been given free bars of chocolate. Their mission is to serve, no request too small or cheap. They are also open so many hours I don’t even think they have keys to lock the door.
They are the Al-​Fayeds of local snack foodsalbeit have never claimed MI5 murdered their son. Or been chairman of Fulham football club. Or tried to get a British passport.