The Co-operative has announced it is investing £1million fitting out two new food stores due to open in Edinburgh today.
Date:
Thu, 15 Dec 2011
Source:
The Co-operative
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The new convenience stores will open in the heart of the city at 26-28 Frederick Street, and nearby at 8 McDonald Road.
The Frederick Street store will create 20 jobs, and offer shoppers a 1,800 sq ft store, while the McDonald Road outlet will create 15 new jobs, and will provide a 2,500 sq ft store.
As well as providing shoppers with convenient stores to quickly pick up groceries and day-to-day items, both stores will feature state-of-the-art fixtures and fittings, eco-refrigeration, and energy efficient lighting. The investment will also see in-store bakeries introduced into both, new kiosks, internal and external signage, and external decoration.
John McNeill, The Co-operative Food's Regional Operations Director in Scotland, said: “We are always looking to grow our business and we’re delighted to open two new stores in one day in Edinburgh. The new stores will complement our existing store network serving local communities. They will be valuable additions to our portfolio, and mark another important step in our ambitious plans to expand.
“We’re looking forward to opening stores that will provide ideal locations for shoppers to pick up high quality groceries locally.”
The Co-operative has been using INGEUS to help fill the vacant positions, INGEUS is a business that helps support people who have been unemployed for a long period of time to get back into the workplace.
Students from the choir at Broughton High School will perform a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the McDonald Road store, and get shoppers in the festive spirit with some carols, while children from Abbeyhill Primary School will cut the ribbon to open the Frederick Street store.
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