great shop for when you need the essentials quickly. fast checkouts make shopping so much easier and they have the self service checkouts for when you only have a basket

super for when you forget your lunch - good variety of sandwiches!

As much as I sometimes kick myself for over relying on Tesco they can occasionally knock out a decent supermarket: this and the one in Didsbury hypnotically force me to part with money. I rely less and less these days on these stores but there are just times when you cannot get certain goods at certain times from anywhere else. This is a perfect city supermarket, mainly due to it’s size (it is set over two floors) allows it to carry a much more representative range of goods. A large fresh fruit and veg section (in itself larger than some small stores in town); bakery section (fresh bread, kinky doughnuts); huge refrigeration/chilled area (downstairs) for such products most at home in that environment (cuddly mozzarealla balls, sulty feta delights and supercilious pizzas). And of course there is a large drinks section, whether that be booze or organic Dutch Gooseberry fizz to service the most desert like tongues of the local populace.
At times (pretty much most of the day!) this store can get really, really busy: fantastic place to people watch, baguette and merlot in hand. Somehow the complex queuing system seems to work (not neglecting the thousand odd staff) and you’re ‘seen to’ within a hop and a skip.

We’ll see if Tesco get the other plot around the corner on High Street to perhaps take the burden off this store.

A surprisingly large and well stocked supermarket in the heart of Manchester city centre, Tesco Metro gives neighbouring convenience stores something of a run for their money.

You can expect to find all the usual food and drink in here, but it’s also quite handy for picking up less common essential items like lightbulbs that I can never find for love nor money in other city centre supermarkets.

It used to be a 24-hour store, but due to a lack of customers and excess of drunk revellers at 4am it’s now reverted back to more conventional opening hours.

The queueing system has recently been modified to make way for a large amount of self service tills, which makes a lot of sense as so many people that go to this store are only picking up a handful of things. Even at peak hours the queue times are now pretty decent.

Overall a nice supermarket outlet that offers a wide range of goods at reasonable prices.