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Recommendations for AB Superstores-type store, please!

Can anyone recommend an alternative to the AB Superstores that used to be in Ealing Broadway (and Greenford), please?  I'm after (cheap!) party supplies and decorations for a special birthday coming up.  I used to always pop into AB Superstores, but don't know where to go now that they've closed down!  Any ideas, please?

Jackie Raymond ● 5613d4 Comments

I would suggest Poundland in the Shopping Centre Gulag, and also LIDL in Hanwell (weekly seasonal and topical offers).Note: our wonderful Council that so wants to re-vitalise our retail centre(?) closed down both Jessops and AB Superstores by selling off their shops as part of the Dickens Yard development (that no one wants) and did not try and help them relocate. I cannot see either shop being tempted back into Ealing with the torture that our planning and building control people give any "new" business venture. Ealing is reputedly the most difficult place to build/develop anything (especially if you are small and cannot grease the right palms) in the whole of London.

Jeff Belsen ● 5613d

Thanks for your suggestions. I must admit I hadn't thought of Wilkinsons (!).  I've just phoned them and unfortunately they don't do banquet(ing) rolls, which is the main item I'm after.  The 99p Stores I've tried (and the party shop in Northfields) don't seem to sell it either...

Jackie Raymond ● 5613d

Certainly Wilkinsons in West Ealing along with 99p Stores a few shops along next to Iceland or there is at least one other similar shop that sells party items.  Or, there's a special children's party shop in Northfield Ave, though I've not been in so can't be sure what they sell there.

David Highton ● 5613d

wilkinsons?

Mark Yates ● 5613d