Market Place — Local services in Bolton

Clean entrance area and friendly security mall staff. However, I walked into JD Sports and was less than impressed. It has to be the most arrogant,unacceptable body language staff EVER! Let me explain further.... I walk into the JD Sports unit in Old Markt Place, Bolton. The store looked clean and tidy and welcoming at first look. BUT that's when it all went wrong for me. I was trying some jackets on and suddenly felt like I was being accused of a suspected shop lifter. I was just trying to see how some of the jackets looked on me before I decided to purchase a jacket for myself. The JD Sports staff followed me around the store and made me feel extremely uncomfortable, especially because you could easily hear there internal store radio's chatting to each other saying keep on eye on the front of house meaning keep an eye on me. Never Ever have I felt so unbelievably, totally uncomfortable in any retail shop then I did in JD Sports. The funny thing is I then decided to walk to Sports Direct Store in Bolton Town Centre were your greeted at the top of the store escalator by friendly,approachable and enthusiastic member of Sports Direct staff member. Stright away, I felt at ease and relaxed. No staff member followed you around, and I tried some jackets on and found what I was looking for and went to pay at the store till the area. Again, he was greeted with a smile from the cashier and asked if there was anything else I could do for you. I replied no I'm great thanks. After my purchase, the cashier said, "Thank you sir enjoy the rest of your day. What an amazing experience it was thean JD SPORTS. Definitely stick with Sports Direct in future buys for me. JD Sports get some customer service experience, but I guess with the JD Sports price tag, if the store sells one item, they can afford not to have customers like me, hay folks. This is my honest opinion of my poor experience of JD Sports in Bolton and my fab experience of Sports Direct in Bolton. Thanks for...

Little variety of stores, you don't feel like there is anything unique to draw you in. The new Vaults don't offer much, the cinema however, is a welcome inclusion. There are still empty units that have remained empty for 15+ years. People didn't want the market stall to be removed, now they have, and have suffered from it, they're looking to reduce unit sizes for more unique, small stores. Much like the market style stores of old. There are much better places to do your shopping. Update: Now that Debenhams has shut, there is not a massive multi-floor unit lay empty just housing escalators. It would make an excellent family friendly zone for things like laser tag and soft play but I doubt we'll get anything that useful. Amazonia the golf and play area has now lost its best feature, the train. Geek Retreat is a welcome addition. Update: The centre seems worse than ever. It's lost so much now, it's a sad, sad shell of it's former self. It's rapidly declining. Bathrooms tend to be a mess with more and more questionable people hanging around them. For the second time now I've seen kids riding bikes in there. There is very little to...

City center is okay. You have all shops here but not like manchester . Here you have two boots but non of them have makeup brands like Nyx , Dior , bare minerals etc. You have to go some where else may be manchester or trafford center to get a full size variety. Then superdrugs is also the same . You can not get all the new launched stuff and even different collabs with different people. Most of the times stock is just finished of not yet came in the store . Not that much variety as i was expecting !!! Every palette or shades of foundations are sold out and such a big disappointment !! Duhh ! A person can not visit everytime and sometimes you don't like buying online without checking it !! They should stock if they have a store here . Then there are cafes and other shops too . Overall this is not like manchester but it's not bad as well !! I believe manchester city center is a worthwhile shopping place to get every brand in one place . But here as i mentioned some of the stuff is not even in stock as well. You have to definetly order...