Coventry Market — Local services in Coventry

A great market, well worth a visit, has been there for years and one of the biggest in Europe. Great selection a food stalls selling fruit and veg, fresh fish stalls, meat stalls, cheese, bread, cakes and more. There are cafe's to visit with standard market cafe's and food to nice food too, including good fry ups. Lots a top quality aftershaves and perfumes, either standard/designer aftershaves and perfumes at great offer prices and some top quality cheaper alternatives. As you would imagine prices are cheaper than the high street and most stalls offer better prices than most shops. There are key cutter, florists, toy stalls, numerous pet stalls, farmers deli, hand made goods stalls, fabric, watch repair stall, sweet stalls (old skool sweets), kids play bit with small kid rides and more. Bags, luggage stalls, suitcases etc. You can get electricals here too. The market has had renervations over the years and there is a huge improvement going on at the minute inside and in the area around the market too, looking at the pics, its gonna look good when all done. They used to get a visit from father Christmas during the Christmas holiday period too. So get yourself down to Coventry Market for a great bargin. Some stalls are up for some haggling, but prices are that good generally that you get a good...

I went to Coventry Market today to have a battery put into my watch. I had tried H Samuels and another Jewellers shop. H Samuels told me they couldn't do it because of the case covering and the other said they could but the battery would either be £9.00 (for a year) or £19.00 for a life time battery. I then went into the market to T&H Watches ⌚️ Repairs & Alterations owned by Hardeep. It took this guy 5 mins to open and replace the battery. He was friendly, professional, and has fantastic customer service, and the battery only cost me £5.00. With everything going up, you have to shop around and get value for your money. I can certainly recommend T&H Watches for value, good quality watches, speedy repairs, friendly and very helpful. And he does key fobs, clocks, glass replacement, alterations on watch straps, and he sells watches, straps, metal,...

Stuck in the past. When will Coventry market move with the times? The world has moved on, most couples now have both partners working full-time. So they haven't got time to shop between 8am and 3-4pm. We're not in the 50's or 60's with the wife staying home and doing all the cooking, cleaning and shopping. So able to find time during school hours to do her shopping. The market and the traders need to realise that people want to shop after work or Sundays. Or maybe even on a Thursday afternoon. As the market still insists on closing early Thursdays. With many traders not even bothering to open at all and the others closing at lunch time. I often hear traders moaning about struggling to make a living. While at the same time doing everything they can to have customers not...