I perhaps frequent this shop more than anywhere else in Edinburgh. It's always been an average place in my mind; standard selection at a slightly inflated city centre price - always understaffed and could have done with a touch up.\n\nThen it got a touch up.\n\nSomerfield has been owned by Co-Op for some time now and all of the Somerfields in the area have recently been converted to Co-Operative food. This wasn't just a new fascia though; the renovation also put in self serve tills, added a huge load of staff (never have to wait long in a queue anymore), put in some great wheely baskets and somehow managed to pack even more stock in whilst removing some of the aisles.\n\nAll in all you're left with a lot better store than what we had before. It's still slightly overpriced compared to the bigger boys but has a good range of stock (lots of it Co-Op approved if that floats your boat), plenty of booze and has convenient enough opening hours to make it indispensable for the transport challenged city centre dweller (like me).\n\nIn fact I think I might nip down just now...