We prefer Birmingham shopping to London (Shopping Areas in Birmingham in general)

Member Name: fairdonion

Product:	Shopping Areas in Birmingham in general
Date:	13/11/01 (189 review reads)
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Advantages: All shops near each other, great shops, easy parking

Disadvantages: cold

Until last week it has been nearly 20 years since I had been to Birmingham!

Wow what a great difference. What has happened to Birmingham. It is great.

The Bull ring shopping centre has gone but in its place a whole lot of new shops.

We had the week before gone to London to do some shopping and came away nearly empty handed not finding much but in Birmingham all the shops seemed to be close together, so hardly no distance between the shops. This is not being lazy but when you buy a lot and dont want to keep popping back to the car every five minutes it does make a difference.

Finding our way into and out of Birmingham was easy. It is well sign posted everywhere.

There are boards up showing which shops are in the shopping area you are in.

I have never seen such a huge market for meat and fish. There were dozens of stalls for fish. Name a fish and they had it.

The clothes were very reasonably priced and already a lot of sales were on.

The sales people were very friendly and helpful. Sorry Birmingham, but we were led to believe you were an unfriendly lot! Not so and we were even told that if something didnt fit keep receipt and take it to any branch or even post it back to them and they would send a larger/smaller size.

I love birmingham and will go shopping there again but on a warmer day as it was so cold there. Maybe I just went on the wrong day. I hope so!

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