Sainsbury's

invisdis

07 Mar 2025

Night time barrier

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Date of visit: March 2025

I have experience of challenges around: a hidden impairment and moving around.

Overall Rating

Poor

Managed to park in a disabled bay near the entrance, which can be a challenge at night as people font think disabled people should be out in the dark (7pm). As usual, no small trolleys, unless you want to walk out to find one in a trolley bay somewhere in the car park (which kind of defeats the point of having disabled parking). Using a big trolley causes me too much pain, even if it helps me to stay upright, so I had to stagger round for the 4 items I needed. Having no small trolleys in the evening seems to be a regular thing with Sainsbury's in Stirling now, which it never used to be. 😭

Disabled Access In and Around

Good

When you're across the road the building is very accessible. It's big but there's specialist trolleys and wheelchairs available to borrow.

Parking & Transport

Poor

Loads of disabled parking but lots of people without blue badges use it too, more so at night when it's quite intimidating to visit anyway, especially when you can't get near the entrance because of them.

Accessible Toilets

Average

There's one large accessible toilet, as well as one larger cubicle with a higher toilet sest in the ladies loo.

Staff

Bad

There's hardly any staff in the building but if you can find one they're usually quite helpful.