The Meadows Centre Reviews Summary

Accessibility

Pros:

• "Easy access."
• "Both shops have a cafe."
• "Excellent parking."
• "Parking is free and its clean and safe."
• "Ample parking spaces available."
• "Plenty of parking and conveniently located."
• "Parking is free and lots of spaces."

Cons:

• "You can get most things you need in life from The Meadows, but be prepared to queue on the A331 to get into the carpark at rush hour."
• "Parking though, not that easy to navigate the layout, or park near the entrance/exit."
• "Ample parking but very limited EV charging as they're always occupied by people leaving their cars there all day."
• "The parking is free but the layout leaves a bit to be desired."
• "Definitely need more parent and child spaces."
• "Shame the car park spaces are not as wide as CostCo."
• "It's a big car park with limited Parent bays for size and type of stores and 0 EV chargers."

Customer Service

Pros:

• "Good products, exceptional good service."
• "The staff in Tesco are the most kind and friendly people I’ve met in a Tesco and very proud of their flagship store."
• "The Tesco there has the very best Customer Service staff I have ever found anywhere."
• "Customer service was excellent, thanks for the help we had at Xmas time."
• "Tesco staff are helpful and polite as ever."
• "Nothing is too much trouble and any member of staff even if it's not their department will always be happy to go out the back and bring the items back for you."
• "The staff are always pleasant and helpful."

Cons:

• "Marks and Spencer was lacking staff I went back to sock dept 3 times to ask a question gave up in the end."
• "Staff however are always friendly apart from the ones in suits that seem not so willing to help."
• "Nice staff but inexperienced and very slow."
• "Food is out of date bananas are rotten when opened. Staff are incredibly unhelpful and will lie."
• "Many self-service tills were out of order and many of the manned tills were not open."
• "No manned tills at midnight. Only self service checkouts with one worker serving multiple customers."
• "Inconsiderent drivers driving wrong way to park, toilets need up grading, at Tesco not good dirty floor,walls.cafe, tables, floor, glass barrier dirty."

Shopping Experience

Pros:

• "You can find almost everything you need for building, decorating and gardening."
• "Great place for shopping for food, clothes and everything else."
• "One of the largest Marks and Spencer in the country located here along with a very large Tesco."
• "Our favourite M&S. Easy parking. Well stocked M&S."
• "If you're needing somewhere to get everything done, tick off a to do list, Xmas shopping..don't bother with town this place has everything you need!"
• "Both M&S and Tesco are very well organised and carry a good range and good stock in both groceries and nonessential products."
• "A choice of Tesco Xtra supermarket & Marks and Spencer both are excellent stores everything you need under one roof."

Cons:

• "Not really sure how to rate it as it isn't really a 'Centre', just an area where there is a 24 hour Tesco (incl. petrol station) and an M&S."
• "Unfortunately there is a total lack of control in the food hall at the moment with no social distancing."
• "Avoid tesco meadows click and collect. It is so blocked with junk that it is Impossible to see if the bays are free."
• "This place is ruined by Tesco's shopping experience still having unnecessary covid like restrictions."
• "Went to M & S at the Meadows for Gastro meal deal - very difficult to find amongst all other deals."
• "Ridiculous size for a supermarket that's the worst nightmare for a non shopper like myself."
• "The biggest tesco in the world I can never find what I want and if you forget something you have a half mile trek to find it again!!"