Staffordshire’s towns and cities offer a good range of shopping facilities. The larger towns - such as Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Tamworth and Rugeley – offer the most diverse selection of shops and facilities, with a particularly good range of shops on offer in Stoke. The town’s Potteries Shopping Centre offers the usual High Street names as well as cafes and restaurants. Some of the smaller towns and villages also have their own selection of facilities, although for a far more extensive choice of shops, many of Staffordshire’s residents travel further afield to Wolverhampton, Birmingham or even Manchester.

The Potteries Shopping Centre in Stoke-on-Trent is a large modern shopping centre with a host of familiar names, as well as cafes and restaurants and a large car park.