Golden Square
Which has recently been expanded and renovated, and now has 145 shops, including debenhams, bhs, and marks and spencer. there are also the obligatory starbucks and costa coffee. the bus station is also accommodated within the golden square.
Cockhedge Shopping Park
Fennel street. including asda, argos, wilkinsons and a few smaller stores and larger retailers such as dixons.
Birchwood Shopping Centre
Birchwood. a small suburban shopping centre, with an asda, as well as various fashion stores, a cafe, two fast food chains and a newsagents.
Alban Retail Park
Manchester road. pc world etc plus a pizza hut and kfc.
Hatters Row
About 200m from the bus station, offering a selection of independent stores and a cafe
Warrington has all the typical British High Street chains as well as a wide selection of independent stores. The major shopping areas are:
Riverside Retail Park
Wilderspool causeway. offering a wide selection of out of town stores including next - plus mcdonalds and pizza hut.
The Market
Including a large number of small shops under cover, including a food hall with several butchers, delicatessens and similar food shops.
Gemini Retail Park
Westbrook. a large out of town shopping park, offering toys r us, next, boots, marks and spencer and most notably, ikea warrington, the first ikea in the uk.
Town Centre
While most stores are boarded up due to relocation to the golden square, there are still some independant stores, including hancock and woods tagged as warrington own department store, though it now specialises in women's clothing, edwin allen the towns oldest shop, founded in 1884, for arts and crafts and a wide selection of charity shops.
Aardvark Music, Bridge Street, (http://www.aardvark-music...) - Musical Instruments including acoustic, bass and electric guitars, drums, cymbals, keyboards etc. Lessons in Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano/Keyboard, Flute and Saxophone are available. Most importantly, the owners and staff are all friendly, and know what they're talking about.
Back Alley Music, The Railway Arches. Opposite the bus station.
Dawsons Music, Sankey Street. The biggest music shop in the town centre. Instrument repair and lessons also take place here.