Kwik Save (Shop)

Kwik Save is the saviour of our family. It allows us to eat well and within a tight budget. The stores themselves are always well stocked and the range of stock and specials seem to change every time I get there but they usually keep the same old products we buy every week but it can be a nightmare to find them out of stock because there is usually quite a rise in price if you have to choose premium brands instead. As well as the usual freezer shopping (which is great value) and fresh fruit and vegetables (which are rather pricey) Kwik Save offer budget brands and it is these I will be ... more

Stores Nation wide there are hundreads of Kwik save stores,and they have been around for longer than I can or care to remember. I live in Nottingham where we have several stores,one of which is 5 minutes away from me. The stores I have been in are all fairly well laid out,with plenty of room to negotiate the isles. Cleanliness appears however to be much more of a store to store thing,with some I have visited being spotless and others being nothing short of filthy. Most of their stores are in good general locations,near other shops and on good bus routes.The majority of stores also having their ... more

Minty, Scruffy, Smelly, Stuck in a 1980’s time warp, oh well enough about me, I am only joking of course. Anyway, the thing I am talking about here, is that well known NOT SO super-market called the “Kwik Save”, what the hell has happened to this shop, I remember when it was not too bad, but that was a very long time ago. Why do I dislike the “Kwik Save” so much? Well, where do I start, firstly, we are now in the year 2001, but has anyone noticed that their local “Kwik Save” looks exactly as it did in the 1980’s, so why is this? in the age of the ... more

I know what springs into the minds of most when those two dreaded words, Kwik and Save, are mentioned. Dirty stores, littered floors and broken trolleys. And yes, I do not mind accepting that in some stores this was, and perhaps still is, the sorry truth. You only have to read other reviews on Ciao to see just how negative the overall opinion of the UK's longest established "discounter" really is. But either the entire nation is wrong, or our local Kwik Save is bucking the national trend. Bare with me and I'll tell you why. Until pretty recently Kwik Save Wigton Road was entirely alike to any ... more

Those red and white diagonally striped carrier bags of the late nineties were enough to put anyone under the age of seventy five off shopping at these tin-and-brick huts. But even though Somerfield have only just managed to start actually making a profit themselves, they have worked absolute magic with the Kwik Save chain. About two years ago, Somerfield, in a deal that heavily damaged it's own profits and the companies overall resistance from take-over merchants such as Wal-Mart, bought the chain of dirty, worn out and tired looking Kwik Save stores. But, after a good 7 years of declining ... more