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A Modern Shopping Centre
Shopping, completely rebuilt after the Second World War and largely pedestrianised in the early 1990s, Plymouth is traditionally the leading shopping centre of the South West.

Laid out in a grid pattern with the four main shopping streets of Royal Parade, New George, Cornwall and Mayflower Streets intersected by Armada way which sweeps on upwards towards Plymouth Hoe and the sea, the centre offers a wide range of national, regional and local shops. 

Homebase www.homebase.co.uk is the home improvement store where you will find inspiration for your house and garden at affordable prices for bigger items like furniture, carpets and electrical goods as well as for DIY or the family food, more likely to take place at an out of town superstore than in the plymouth city centre.

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Major shopping centres

There are three large, recently modernised department stores, Dingles www.houseoffraser.com (part of the House of Fraser), Debenhams www.debenhams.com and Derrys. Nearly all the best known high street names, like Next, Marks & Spencer www.marksandspencer.com, Boots www.boots.com, W H Smith www.whsmith.co.uk, C & A, M&S, The Bodyshop www.uk.thebodyshop.com, bhs, Argos, Virgin Megastore www.virginmegastores.co.uk, Topshop www.tops.co.uk, HMV, Woolworth, The Disney Store www.disney.co.uk, Bhs www.bhs.co.uk, Mothercare www.mothercare.com and Toys R Us, are represented in the city. And there is also a large J Sainsbury www.sainsburys.co.uk superstore and a Tesco www.tesco.com Metro store in the city centre.

The whole of the centre is ringed by car parks giving easy access to the shops as well as to the nearby theatres, cinemas and other leisure facilities. Park and ride facilities with frequent shuttle bus service into the city centre provide a convenient alternative for traffic coming into the city from the north and east.

Plymouth city centre is constantly evolving, a reflection of changing shopping habits and particularly the growth of out of town retailing. A major new indoor shopping mall is planned and more leisure related businesses, wine bars, bars and pavement cafes, are gradually appearing giving the centre a more continental atmosphere, enhancing the shopping experience and bringing more life to the centre in the evenings when the shops are closed.

Major superstores

Tesco, Asda and Plymco (Plymouth and South Devon Co-operative) in the north, Safeway www.morrisons.co.uk at Manadon, J Sainsbury www.sainsburys.co.uk at Marsh Mills and a new Safeway at Plymstock, are well placed for easy access from all over the city. The Ridgeway at Plympton and Plymstock Broadway are significant shopping centres in their own right and there are district
shopping centres all across the city, several with Somerfield www.somerfield.co.uk or Plymco supermarkets. Plymco late shops are to be found right across the city and in the surrounding towns and villages.

Retail park shopping

is concentrated in ares like the Marsh Mills Retail park and around Plymouth road, Plympton, both conveniently located close to the Marsh Mills Parkway interchange. Here stores like DFS, Sainsbury, Homebase, Halfords, PC World, Carpetright, B&Q, Harveys, Comet, Currys, Furnitureland, Allied Carpets, Co-op Homemaker and Do it All are situated. More superstores like Courts, MFI Homeworks, The Suite Centre and Matalans as well as other branches of Homebase DIY and Do It All are to be found elsewhere in the city.