Pet Shop Near Stanway | Marks Tey Discount Pet Foods

Pet shop near Stanway - minutes down the A12

If you live in Stanway, Tollgate, Fiveways or anywhere off the A12 Junction 26, you’re closer to us than you might think. Marks Tey Discount Pet Foods is a short hop west along the A12, around 8 to 10 minutes door-to-door from most of Stanway. We’ve been supplying Stanway pet owners with quality discount food and specialist supplies for over 30 years.

We’re independent, family-run, and now on our third generation of owners. What that means for you: real advice from people who’ve raised, fed, bred and cared for just about every animal you can keep in or around a home, and prices that genuinely beat the big chains at Tollgate Retail Park.

Click & collect only

We’re a pick-up only shop. Order online for click & collect, or come in and browse the full range in person. There’s plenty of parking, and the team will always help you out to the car with heavy bags.

Why Stanway customers drive out to us

Stanway has grown fast over the last decade. That’s brought plenty of retail into the area, but when it comes to pet food most of it is chain-priced, limited on range, and light on advice. Here’s what people tell us keeps them making the short drive:

Discount pricing that beats Tollgate. On mainstream brands like Bakers, Skinners, Chappie, Whiskas, Felix, James Wellbeloved and Iams, we’re consistently cheaper by the bag.
Bulk sizes the chains don’t stock. 15kg and 20kg dry food bags, 40-pack pouches, multi-packs of tinned food.
Specialist lines you can’t get at Tollgate. Caged bird seed, pigeon corn, poultry feed, mealworms in bulk, frozen chicks, equine lines.
Expert staff who’ll actually answer the question you came in with, not point you at a shelf.
Help to your car with the heavy bags: no charge, no fuss.

Specialist lines worth the trip

If you keep chickens in a Stanway garden, own an aviary, feed your local wild birds, or run an allotment-side hutch, we cover things Stanway’s general retailers don’t:

Layers pellets, growers pellets, layers mash and chick starter crumbs in 20kg bags, essential for backyard chicken keeping
Oyster shell grit, mixed corn and poultry supplements
Pigeon corn in domestic and 20kg sizes
Caged bird feed: budgie, canary, cockatiel, parrot, finch and aviary mixes including Bucktons and foreign finch seed
Wild bird food: sunflower hearts, peanuts, monkey nuts and dried mealworms in bulk 20kg bags
Rabbit and small animal feed from Heygates, Burgess Excel and Tiny Friends Farm
Frozen day-old chicks for raptor and reptile keepers
Equine supplies including Speedi-Beet, sugar beet shreds and occasional haylage

Plenty of Stanway customers started with us for the dog food pricing and ended up picking up wild bird food, chicken feed or rabbit bedding in the same trip.

Getting to us from Stanway

It’s one of the easiest car journeys in the area. From anywhere in Stanway:

From Tollgate or London Road, join the A12 westbound at Junction 26 and come off at Junction 25 (Marks Tey). That’s one junction along, usually around 6 to 8 minutes on a clear day.
From Fiveways or Winstree Road, pick up the A12 westbound and head for Junction 25.
From Lexden or Shrub End, the A12 westbound from Junction 26 takes you straight past Marks Tey.

Once off the A12, follow signs for Marks Tey and look for us on the A120 aka Coggeshall Road.

Parking: completely free, directly outside. Load straight from the shop to the car and don’t forget to let us help you with this!

Opening hours

Monday to Saturday: 9:00am to 5:45pm
Wednesday (late): 9:00am to 7:00pm
Sunday: 10:00am to 4:00pm

Click & collect only – no delivery

We’re a pick-up only shop. It’s how we keep the prices down. You can:

1. Order online at discountpetfood.co.uk and we’ll have it ready for collection
2. Just walk in. Everything on the site plus plenty more is on the shelves
3. Phone first on 01206 210 153 if you want us to hold a bulk bag aside

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