Wigan's shopping choices are great and the town centre is now located in the UK top 100 shopping destinations as well as being one of the safest town centres with awards from the retail consortium.
The Galleries shopping mall features both indoor and outdoor shopping with stores such as Argos, Internacional, New Look, Desire, Varanni, H Samuel, Mary Jane Fashion, Claires accessories, Ryman, The Works, Superdrug, Duffer Menswear,Evans, Bon Marché, Wallis, V2 clothing, Exit fashion, Scotts, Toni & Guy, Clarks, Shoe Zone, Home Bargains, Ethnic Emporium, Hair Pavillion, Glamour Point, Dr Kruger and the newly opened Wigan Athletic store to name afew.
Standishgate is the main street of Wigan, festooned with favourites such as a Marks & Spencer department store, WH Smith, Miss Selfridge, CEX, Wilkinsons department store, Caffé Nero, Starbucks, Game, B&M Bargains, Gamestation, a large Primark store and Piers department store.
The newly built Grand Arcade Centre is a shopping mall housing a 125,000 square ft Debenhams, a BHS department store and an extended entrance to Marks & Spencer. Fashion Stores such as Next, Topman, Topshop, River Island, Hurley, Bank, Republic, Skopes, Monsoon, Accessorize and TK Maxx. The centre also has Ann Summers, Orange, O2, Vodafone, HMV, Waterstones, Chisholm Hunter, JJB, JD Sports, Sports Direct, The Body Shop, the Wigan Warriors rugby team store, the carphone warehouse, Boots, Clinton Cards, Schuh and Timepiece.
Makinson Arcade, a small shopping arcade is home to a mixture of independant and high street retailers as well as some upmarket. Messi, Thorntons, Body Shop Clothing, Kings and Swarovski to name but afew.
Wigan Market consists of an outdoor market and large indoor market with many a bargain to be found with clothing, food, drink and house hold goods, electronics and souvenirs all avialable.
Wallgate is the main street in entering the town with both train stations located here. This street has shops such as Cash Converters, Alans clothing and Bikes and is the gateway to Market place, the shopping centres and Standishgate, the hub of the town centre.
Robin Retail Park, just outside the town centre located near the DW Stadium and Robin Park arena is also a large shopping complex. It is nearby an Asda Walmart Supercentre one of the largest in the north west and B&Q supercentre. It has stores such as Pets at Home, Comet, JD, JJB, Next, Poundstretcher, Matalan, Boots, Wickes, Argos, Sports Direct, Thorntons/Birthdays, Sleepmaster as well as being located near a McDonalds, Burger King and local pub the Red Robin for food and drink. It also contains a pizza hut, Jamal indian restaurant, Frankie and Benny's, Gala Bingo and Empire Cinema with a 3D screen.
Try to take home a tin of "Uncle Joes Mint Balls" . These sweets are made in the area and can be found on the shelves of Harrods in London amongst other places ! See next section.
