Merry Hill Shopping Centre

Merry Hill Shopping Centre has quite large retailing area, which is 154,002m² (1.593m ft²). Within this area, it has been a sensational blend of well-known traders with rising retailers. It is mainly a two-storied shopping centre. Its main anchors are seven in numbers. Debenhams and Marks & Spencer are two leading departmental stores in the United Kingdom. Among them, Debenhams works at international level providing fashion, accessories, gift and electrical goods. BHS, Primark and Next are mainly clothing retailers having excellent feedback from the customers. Their household products are also highly sought-after for their top-class products. Asda and Sainsburys are the leading supermarkets of United Kingdom.

It houses more than 250 promising stores with their excellent services. The leading retailers are fashion oriented. Their target is to provide most updated dress for men, women and kids. However, in the area of electrical product retailers, this mall is also in the dominant position. Leading electrical goods retailers such as Maplin Electronics, Carphone Warehouse and Phone4u, have also housed here with their great reputation of customer satisfaction. Interestingly HSBC, a leading bank of United Kingdom, has also a branch here. PoundLand and Pound World have also their own shop selling their excellent products to their customers.

Merry Hill will not dissatisfy its visitors in sector of food and recreation. Rather its large food hall namely Eat Central food hall offers a great experience of foods from around the world. Sixteen food court units including Burger King, Pizza Express, Nando’s, KFC, Muffin Breaks and Subway have housed their stores inside of this great hall. The environment has been very attractive with its elegant theme of street side dining and landscaping. However, they have their other stores, here, as well. Besides that, a 10-screen cinema hall namely Odeon brings every week various recently released movies to bring happiness and to erase the tiredness of the visitors. Remarkably, this is the first cinema hall in Dudley Borough area. With ten thousand car parking spaces, this shopping mall ensures a convenient entrance and departure of the visitors coming from far of this area.

From the architectural point of view, it is a simple design with excellent effect. Its front has a large car parking. Its entrance has a traditional triangular shaped shade with clean glass. It allows the entrance of daylight to show the shininess of white tiles. Inside of it, a sculpture of flying anvils enhances the beauty of the interior of the mall. A canal of the Dudley flows through the neighbouring Waterfront site and high above the verge of this mall. It has descended to Delph Locks. 

Although the recession of 2008 made several retailers leave and other issues forced to change many of its previous design and plan surrounding it, excellent customer service, top-class products and delicious foods have held it at the top position in the retailing competition between the shopping malls.