Harrogate News Agents

Gah, it makes me sad to write this update having returned to the world of smokers. It takes one really bad day and *bam* you’re back on the fags. I had a school teacher that called smokers «dirty black lung faggers» and every time I fail to quit those eternal words run through my mind. Even so, I was in need of some extra cigarette papers so had the chance to pop in here once more to feed my habit.
Friendly service was present, as with the last time I nipped in here, and not much more of a story to report! Handy, full of the essentials and small and poky just as all good newsys seem to be. Only minor thing was that they didn’t have any extra slim filter tips, and since I try not to make my rollies cigar-​sized, had to survive on my remaining few tips ’till I made it back to Headingley. No real bother though, y’know. It’s only fags.

I have to agree with Amelia about the sparseness of the shelves in places… but I couldn’t quite tell if anything was actually missing — it seemed like maybe some shelves had been emptied of chocolate bars to move them onto the counter and hadn’t yet been filled with anything else. But it did give an overall vibe of not being well-​stocked though it may have been a bit of an illusion. It does sell loads of magazines and papers and enough sweets and chocolate to happily rot your teeth as well as kitchen cupboard essentials and other bits and bobs like greetings cards and handy bits of stationery. The bloke behind the counter did seem friendly and chatty so overall I quite liked the shop as newsagents go.

I desperately want to give this place a good review as when I was buying a paper and some crisps the guy behind the till was super-​friendly and we had a good chat about the weather. Being British, I thoroughly enjoy these little exchanges. But the shop was pretty empty. There weren’t many chocolate bars for sale, there were a few lonely looking space ships in a plastic jar on one shelf, I don’t even smoke and I noticed the empty shelves behind the till that are normally full of cigarettes. Maybe I popped in on an off-​day as there aren’t many other news agents like this in Chapel Allerton so it can’t be doing that badly! I did notice however a huge array of magazines, so perhaps everything else is superfluous.