Trago Mills

Trago Mills is a huge superstore that ambles through a massive building, selling anything and everything you can imagine: furniture, carpets, clothes, art equipment, watches, models, toys etc etc are all housed in this massive place. There are two of these in the South West, and both are in fairly remote locations, which means to get there is always a big trip out. Because of that, you tend to find yourself going there with quite a list of things to buy, and for me this often leads to disappointment as you rarely get much of what you need. The store has a huge car park with a river running next to it, and chickens and hens free-roaming arond, which ...  Read the complete review

If you live in Plymouth and tell anyone you are going to go to Trago Mills you can almost predict what they will respond with, 'What? Up or down?' This literally means, 'Will you be going to the Trago in Cornwall or the one in Newton Abbot?' Once that question is out of the way the person you are speaking too will hand you a big list of what they would like you to buy for them. You see, Trago Mills is a huge store which sells any thing and everything at a huge discounted price. I remember getting so excited when my parents declared that we would be going there for an outing because at that age it like entering a whole new world. There was so much to see and do ...  Read the complete review

Trago started out in the 1960's as a small shed in Liskeard, South East Cornwall. The founder Mike Robertson bought a selection of items 'up country' and sold them in this shed. The store was designed to sell cheap, affordable products to the locals of Cornwall. Mike Robertson is a well known supporter and has broken many trading laws in the past by insisting to open on Sundays and ignore the metric ruling. The store has expanded and has another two stores in Newton Abbot, Devon and Falmouth, Cornwall. For anyone living in Wales there are currently plans to expand into Merthyr Tydfil by late 2009. The plans for this new store can be found at ...  Read the complete review

I have only been to Trago Mills once in my life. It was last month actually. My mate had been going on about how good it was but I thought that I'd be disappointed. I told her to stop "bigging it up" as it might not be not all it's cracked up to be. Before getting to the actual shop, I found the outside charming with all the rides for the little ones and the birds (you're not allowed to feed them though) and the craft shops and garden centre. I thought it gave the place a nice atmosphere. We then ventured inside Trago Mills and I must say I was a bit disappointed at first. There were candles and Christmas decorations at the entrance, then ...  Read the complete review

this is the worst store i have ever been in, it is so old fashioned and dated, smelly, cheap, crowded, full of morons, staff and customers, parking is a real nightmare, every one walks round slowly shuffling their feet ; dragging their granny style shopping trollies that tip over if you put anything in them, the goods are cheap and shoddy and half of it should never have been manufactured in the first place and god help you if you have to return anything, this envolves a third degree nazi style interrogation to find out why you are returning said items, then you have to take it back to the department you bought it from, regardless of how heavy it is, then wait for the so ...  Read the complete review