Sainsbury’s

The Sainsbury’s in Southend is small for a supermarket but it does have a wide range of food and take away foods. It is the only supermarket located in the town centre and this offers a reasonably priced nice food with mainly helpful and friendly staff. I would recommend going in the morning or evening as it can get very very busy but overall its good!

It might be because I’m a northerner that I found the staff member who served me in here to be somewhat less than friendly. It was a beautiful sunny day, and I had to visit a client down the road so admittedly I just wanted some change for the parking machine. I wandered around for a bit wondering what to by that would give me a good return on the ‘change for a tenner’ front and opted for some generic organic smoothie thing. When I asked the till lady for my change in pound coins she sighed, gave me a right nasty look and reluctantly counted out the change, one coin at a time. Even though I was super polite and friendly and cheery and all ‘I’m sorry to be a pain, thank you very much please thank you’.
Ah well. Other than that, the shop was well stocked, the car park offered up to 2 hours free parking (not enough for me) for customers, and it was bright and nice enough.

Good selection of fresh sandwiches so great for a quick lunch if you work in town. Much better since the facelift, has a hot food counter (yummy chicken!) and the layout is much better. There is a pharmacy and they also have self checkout tills (not always faster tho!).

Not the widest selection available but everything is generally instock and well rotated. Have found it to be overpriced compared with other supermarkets and the special offers don’t generally seem to be anything special (again compared with other supermarkets). The minimum age to work in this store is 15 years and three months and you can tell by the amount of young people they have working there. Parking is awkward and drivers seem to ignore the zebra crossing they have in there. Limited spaces but have another level which is not ideal if your car doesn’t like hills as this one is intense! Staff are nice enough but it is rare that you seem them. The store hasn’t been merchandised very well and can be confusing to new customers.

This store is quite a large example of a Sansburys store, and as well as food, stocks a wide range of entertainment and has a slightly smaller home-​wears department. Unfortunately it does not stock the popular line of Tu clothing that some of the largest Sainsburys do, nor does it have a café which would have been a nice feature. Sainsburys is very conveniently located if you are coming from the high street and want to pick up some snacks to eat a the nearby Odeon! Parking is situated inside, and you need to pay 50p for an hour, but this will be refunded when you spend over £5.

Good Sainsbury’s. Bigger than you think from the outside. Good selection. Bit of a pain to get to when Southnd is busy as very near Town centre. Can park for free is spend more than a fiver. Often has special offers and Jamie Oliver!

i find the staff are friendly and helpful, getting you items you have forgotton when you are queuing at checkouts, and they do their best to open up a new checkout if your queue is quite long too.
a wide range of prducts on offer, with many surpirsing finds that are good value too.
great deals, plenty of room to get around the store, well laid out and the pharmacy is an added bonus.