THE ONE STOP SPORT SHOP

Advantages: good quality across the range, many top names at good prices
Disadvantages: too many queues, staff are largely morons

...Sport Soccer now seems to have branches all over the place, though I’d suspect it is still firmly centred around the Home Counties. Many of their branches that I frequent have been undergoing a refit and enlargement, so I’d have to guess the business was thriving. So that nicely brings me to ‘the business’. This chain of Sports stores started life as Sport & Ski. Trading in Shopping Malls and stocking winter gear for the skier, in addition to general sports gear like T-Shirts, Polos, Sweats and Jackets. Also, there were always racks of trainers, football boots etc for both Adults and Children. This brought them a niche market. It was a shop you could kit little Johnny out for his new school with some respectable labels like Umbro,. Adidas and the now ubiquitous Donnay. While the teenagers and more label...

flashpointz 18.07.2001 · Read review
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One Stop Sports Shop

Advantages: Fashionable and are clued up when it comes to sportsgear
Disadvantages: Quite expensive and mithering staff!!

...First Sport is without a doubt THE one stop sports shop!! There is a string of First Sport stores around the country so there is bound to be one near you. First Sport boasts a vast range of sporting products: reams and reams of footwear for almost every possible sporting occasion; fantastic, fashionable sportwear, and, sports equipment from the small fidgety items, such as football boot studs to the big and brash (eg. Snooker cues!!)!! The First Sport staff are all extremely clued up on sports retail and it is guaranteed that if you ask them a question (eg. What type of shoes should I run the London Marathon in??!), they will have an answer and will give you honest, helpful advice. The staff really do go out of their way to help you, however, they are also trained to mither you until you want to slap a wet fish across their...

Weez 04.06.2001 · Read review
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JD SPORTS

Advantages: Exclusives, great range, loads of outlets
Disadvantages: None

...more simple designs over the years, but they have always stuck to a certain formula that has been so popular. They also make hoodies which are very popular and they are my personal favourite. Recently there have been a number of footwear lines that have the McKenzie branding on them. These are quite cheap compared with those of the main sports companies, but they haven't been hugely popular. If you stroll into any JD Sports outlet, or King of Trainers for that matter, you can expect to see trainers, clothing and accessories from the following list of manufactures: Adidas - Nike - Reebok - Puma - Umbro - K-Swiss - Ecko Unlimited - LaCoste - McKenzie - Nickelson - Timberland. JD Sports is one of the largest chains of shops providing sports and liesure clothing. They have well over 300 stores, located in various towns and cities across...

thespurs 08.08.2004 · Read review
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  How Low Can You Go (Customer Service not Price!!)

Advantages: Cheap Prices, Top Branded Footwear
Disadvantages: Poor Customer Service, Cheap and Tacky Clothing Range, Lonsdale

...specific examples where in my opinion they have failed to provide an appropriate level of customer service. Poor Service Take 1 As I said earlier in this review my son plays in goal for a junior football team, and for Christmas his uncle bought him a new pair of Nike goalkeeper gloves. If you are disorganised you tend to do all your Christmas shopping quite late, but for once Uncle Adam was switched on and purchased these gloves in November. Now because he was second guessing my sons hand size he had kept the receipt and gave it to me in case we had to return the said item. Fortunately size wasn't an issue (!!) but after only wearing them twice the stitching had come undone on one of the gloves. So two weeks into January I visited the Manchester Arndale branch of Sports Soccer armed with the offending gloves and my receipt...

supercityfan 05.08.2008 · Read review
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JD Sports

Advantages: Cheap kiddie designer clothes
Disadvantages: None

...Me, my fiance and my son all shop at JD Sports, we find that they do some really good designer clothes for the whole family. Their smallest size in kiddie clothes starts from 6 months old so to me that's good thing as for people who like designer clothes and footwear can buy for their little ones. You can apply for a store card, which we never have but the offer is there if you want one. They sell a range of stuff from Trainers to Jogging bottoms, T-shirts, Shirts, Tracksuit bottoms, Socks, Swimwear, Footballs, Football boots and Leather protective stuff for the trainers your buying. They sell all makes/brands e.g Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Kickers, Ellsesse and YSL. Prices for kiddie clothes that are designer like Nike cost for a T-shirt £5/£7.00, Nike Shorts cost £6 roughly and Nike Jogging bottoms cost £10.00. So buying...

Toady 24.08.2001 · Read review
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JD Sports

Advantages: Sell Brands Other Sports Shops Don't
Disadvantages: Too Expensive

...In my opinion JD in Aldershot is crap. They have the image of being a Chav store (no offence to anyone who shops in there, I'm not saying you are one) and so many people feel uncomfortable in the store because a lot of the staff give off the image of being a Chav, having got to know some of them I now know they're not all like that. Recently my Fiance went to work in the Aldershot branch, he wanted a part time job so we could see each other more. Anyway the first few weeks were fine, until it came to payday and he didn't get paid, he went to speak to them about it and they said they'd done the paperwork wrong, so he had to wait even longer to get paid and when he finally did they did it in a lump sum so he got taxed around £45! But that's not the only thing...the Manager & Assistant Manager both got suspended for bullying each...

CADiaper 10.05.2008 · Read review
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Sports Waste

Advantages: Cheap prices and large stores
Disadvantages: Generally ugly clothes

...It's interesting to find what's being built right under your nose, and whilst it has been open for quite some time now when a massive new Sports World (formerly known as Sports Soccer) opened in a new shopping park just outside of the usual shopping area in Cambridge, I was obliged to find out what it's like. This now not very newish Sports World isn't the only one Cambridge has to offer though, as there is also one in the centre of town - that's not too shabby in size either. What exactly do these shops have to offer? Well I'll be happy to let you know. With the arrival of the new Sports World came an influx of a brand I had hardly ever heard of before, Lonsdale. Hmm.. what's that I thought. It didn't look very nice but people seemed to be picking up new outfits of it by the bucketful from somewhere. I wondered where, and not to be...

Nathan_Innit 22.03.2007 · Read review
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Shops with service

Advantages: High standard of service, before and after sale
Disadvantages: No major drawbacks

...recorder, TV headphone unit (for the benefit of my mother who is hard of hearing), CD player, and last but not least the Pentium 4 without which I would not be unleashing these words upon the ciao readership. It also provides a DIY photocopying service at 5p per A4 sheet. For several years, we used to do the usual cheap’n’cheerful thing of buying items from a chain store mainly because the price was right – or seemed right. Wrong, actually. If something went wrong with the music centre or computer, it was the devil of a job getting it fixed. Ring up, pack it up and take it in - and yes, park your car on double yellow lines just so you can carry the boxes back into the shop as quickly as possible...you get the picture. Alternatively, you might be provided with a service telephone number at a call centre the other side...

JOHNV 25.06.2002 · Read review
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Shopping Wonderland

Advantages: Designer Brands
Disadvantages: High Prices

...Wow I absolutely love this shop, I buy the majority of my clothes from there. What would I ever do without it! What Does It Sell? For those of you that don't know, JD is a sports shop that sells designer clothes and trainers. They sell some sports brands, but only the well known and expensive ones. If you are looking for real professional sportswear, I would recommend JJB. JD sells a wide range of products that suit all - Mens, Womens and Juniors. They sell many different types of clothes, but the majority are tracksuits, hoodies and coats. Although JD sell many clothes, they are best known for their trainers. They sell many very popular brands including Nike, KSwiss, Lacoste and many more. JD is more of a fashion shop than a proper sportswear shop though, and fashion doesnt come cheap. Your average pair of trainers will cost...

Gemma94 26.01.2008 · Read review
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JJB Sports

Advantages: Cheap, Good Quality, Vast Range, Good Brands
Disadvantages: None

...think that's great if their clothes etc are cheap but personally I don't think they sell as much variety & apparently (can't be 100% sure) they are owned by someone to do with Chelsea FC, who has the money to slash prices, then when the competition is gone the prices can go up because they'll be no one really to compete with...don't take that as definate information thought, my fiance finds out some information about sports stores because he works for JD Sports =] Anyway if you do want to have a look around JJB I would recommend it. As I said they have plenty of stores across the country or you could shop online at www.jjbsports.com. Let me know what you think =]...

CADiaper 10.05.2008 · Read review
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