Whitworth Street Local Sainsbury's (Argos Collection Point) — Local services in Manchester

This Sainsbury's store is the perfect stop-off to get a bite to eat or other essential item if you're making your way into the city centre from Oxford Road.

The aisles are quite narrow and it can be get really busy in the mornings as people make their way into work. I tend to buy breakfast from here - the bakery section has a good range of pastries, croissants, cinnamon whirls etc. I would buy my from here lunch too, but at the times I usually go (between 8.20 and 9.00am) some of the shelves are still being stocked and I find the sandwich options are limited.

The store has a large number of self-checkout tills, which I find are fairly fast-moving compared to the smaller number of people-manned tills they offer. If you like a bit of chit chat and interaction with your purchase, this probably isn't the best...

A fairly nice city center store. Nothing amazing and staff were pretty quiet again. Not much conversation or interaction at the till. I managed to get everything I wanted except for a bottle opener. Not something I'd mark the store down on but with so many hotels around maybe worth stocking. Overall though was an alright store.

Good thing is the number of self service checkouts which keep things moving as long as people use them. So better than some smaller stores...

Unfortunately the lads on the till are not able to manage the queue effectively ie one customer queue to feed both staffed tills. They are too reluctant to tell people this is how it operates causing significant frustration for the other people queing respectfully. Some custoner service training required! Disappointing experience compared to...