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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.

Plymouth, City Centre, Shops, Shopping in plymouth, England. shopping habits have changed.
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.
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