Here we show how to construct finite-difference shock-capturing central schemes on staggered grids. Staggered schemes may have better resolution of the corresponding unstaggered schemes of the same order. They are based on high order non oscillatory reconstruction (ENO or WENO), and a suitable ODE solver for the computation of the integral of the flux. Although they suffer a more severe stability restriction, they do not require a numerical flux function. A comparison between central finite volume and finite difference, on staggered and non staggered grids, is reported.