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[venta]

Tell me, oh, UK-based people of LJ, what are your general thoughts and impressions of the Nisa chain of corner shops?

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[sammason]

I don't recall ever going into a Nisa. This has a lot to do with my disability and the location of shops.

[venta]

Well, if you're passing through my area, I can tell you that ours has a nice wide automatic sliding door to get in, and no steps :) Though sadly I think the interesting bit at the back might have aisles that are a bit too narrow.

[beckyc]

Pretty basic range.

[beckyc]

Oh and having read the rest -seconding stork - I've recommended gold stork to any number of folks. Just not the cake one as that's got dairy, boo hiss

[venta]

Also (in my limited experience) the cake one doesn't even make particularly good cake.

[bateleur]

Are kudos still available? If so: Brimful of Asha by - and I see what you did there - Cornershop.

(Noteworthy for being one of the few huge chart hits during the time I was commuting to Tao that I actually like.)

[venta]

Yup, kudos still freely distributed to deserving homes, like people who recognise Cornershop when they see it.

I see what you did there

Although not always, there is usually a reason (if somewhat tangential) for the subject line!

[bateleur]

there is usually a reason

Aha - I suspected as much, but since I only spot it very occasionally I wasn't sure.

[lnr]

Cheap and cheerful own brand stuff but overall a bit downmarket (most corner shops are though regardless of type) and overall more expensive than a proper supermarket. Not seen one in donkeys years though, our nearest is a Premier, there's McCoys in the village (plus Tesco and Co-op for slightly bigger shops) and a Spar in Stapleford. 'So much nicer' marketing never really rang true for me.

[lnr]

Correction, the Stapleford shop is a Londis not a Spar (though there's a Spar is Sawston).

[jiggery_pokery]

You said it; I thought they were a chain and competed against the likes of Tesco Express and Sainsbury's Local. We have two Nisas literally next door to each other, though one is a Total garage forecourt. Nevertheless, it is a garage forecourt supermarket from which we've previously bought buttermilk and sour cream; as you say, the range is a cut above that of stereotyped expectations.