What can I buy at a village shop?
Introduction
The answer is - most things!
Our village shops offer a wide range of services - serving up internet access with freshly made coffee, as well as groceries, stamps and seasonal produce.
Not only do our village shops provide convenience shopping and postal services, they are also a major outlet for many award-winning local food producers.
Pick up a snack
And if you're walking, cycling or camping at the coast, or on the South Downs, you can pop into the nearest village shop to pick up:
- hot and cold snacks and sandwiches;
- local guidebooks;
- food;
- beach equipment and clothing;
- maps; and even
- bike repair kits.
To discover what your nearest village shop has to offer, visit the find my nearest village shop section of the village shop directory.
A to Z of village shop goods and services
Listed below is an A to Z of all the things you can find at village shops throughout the Chichester District.
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- Beach equipment and clothing
- Bicycle pumps
- Bike hire
- Bird tables
- Bread
C
- Cards
- Cashback
- Cash machines
- Cafés
- Charcoal
- Children's party goods
- Chocolates
- Craft gifts
- Cream teas
D
- Delicatessen
- Disabled access
- Discount coupons
- Disposable barbecues
- Dry cleaning
- DVD rental
F
- Firewood and kindling
- Firelighters
- Fine dining
- First aid item
- Fish
- Flowers
- Free range eggs
- Fresh fruit and vegetables
G
- Greeting cards
- Groceries and grocery delivery
H
- Helium balloons
- Hot and cold drinks
- Household items
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J
L
- Local produce
- Locally brewed beers
- Lollies
- Lottery
M
- Meats
- Mobile phone top-ups
- Milk
N
- Newspapers and newspaper delivery
O
- Off-licence
- Online newspaper ordering
- Ordnance survey maps
- Outside seating
P
- Parking
- Pastries
- PayPoint
- Pet food and doggy bags
- Photo booth
- Plants
- Postal services
- Photocopying
- Prescription collection
- Puncture repair kits
S
- Seasonal produce
- Shoe repairs
- Slush drinks
- Snacks and sandwiches
- Stationery
- Sweets
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