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Trago Mills - shopping heaven or pasty muncher hell?

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Posted by: Kim Mutton Monday 26th February 2007, 12:29pm
Last edited 26/02/2007 12:29pm by Kim Mutton

If you live in the south west or have been lucky enough to holiday in the region you will have undoubtedly heard of if not yet visited Trago Mills

Turn of the A38 between Exeter and Plymouth abnd head towards Newton Abbot. The first roundabout has a sign to "Trago Mills Retail and Leisure Park". Curiosity gets the better of you and you turn off.

The approach road is peppered with anti European posters such as "EU-phemism for disaster" - ironic as Trago clearly enjoys the cheap labour of recent immigrants

There is ample free parking although spatial awareness is clearly not a strong point as selfish pasty munchers just leave vehicles at jaunty angles, across lines and block side roads in their urgency to find the Trago Riverside or Atrium Entrances.

Trago Mills, Key Facts

Trago Mills is vast

Trago Mills is cheap

Trago Mills has nasty pasties

It gets better and betterer

The peacocks that wander freely around the site add a sense of style and glamour that sadly is distinctly lacking from the shoppers, some of whom are possibly the roughest folk from Torbay and surrounding areas. Entire families, heads shaved and tatoos on display, shuffle and grunt their way round the labyrinth of DIY and Household products before returning to the crowded tills clutching their bargains.

Trago doesn't have trollies - odd decesion for a shop that pressumable wants to shift stock. Checkout time can be quite hairy with multiple pots of paint, self assembly furniture. planks of wood and rolls of vinyl flooring.

The Trago Garden Centre really has a great selection of well priced plants although browsing is spoilt by noxious wafts from the adjacent food court.

Trago, Newton Abbot, has appalling staff - it seems that on appointment the staff at Trago are under strict instruction to be awful ignorant shabbily dressed pasty munchers. They never ask if they can help and look fiercely annoyed if asked anything.

For anyone who cares Trago has its own fishing areas - just look for the bizarre Colossus - a hundred foot tall yellow plastic model astride the water!

Visit Trago Mills yourself - its a true west country experience.

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