EXCLUSIVE: Marks & Spencer has introduced the place its subsequent massive, household format meals retailer will open.
M&S’s Farnham retailer opens
Marks & Spencer has revealed the place within the UK its subsequent retailer opening shall be – and it opens in days. The retail big has already opened three new outlets over the past two weeks because it seeks to draw extra household consumers and double the scale of its meals enterprise.
The Every day Specific can solely reveal that M&S‘s subsequent massive, household format meals retailer will open in Whetstone, north London, on April 7. The renewed department has been prolonged, with its floorspace elevated from 9,600 sq ft to 14,500 sq ft. The retailer growth additionally generated an additional 30 jobs on the outlet in Whetstone’s Excessive Street.
M&S is opening its subsequent massive, household format meals retailer in Whetstone, north London (Picture: Getty) The day’s greatest headlines in UK and World information and extra Subscribe Invalid e mail
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Whetstone’s M&S features a new in-store bakery and occasional counter, with sizzling drinks served by baristas, as a part of an total renewal of the shop’s design.
It additionally boasts a cheese barge laden with chosen cheeses in addition to devoted flower and wine outlets. The shop’s Click on and Accumulate level has additionally been redesigned as a part of the key refurb.
Information of M&S’s subsequent retailer opening comes after the retailer opened three new branches over the previous fortnight, producing greater than 200 jobs and including to the retailer’s roster of recent or renewed outlets opened within the 2025-26 monetary yr.
A 15,000 sq ft meals retailer opened at Oldings Nook retail park in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, whereas one other overlaying 16,000 sq ft was launched in Luton, Bedfordshire. The third welcomed prospects in Farnham, Surrey, on Wednesday (March 25). Video shared with the Every day Specific offers viewers a peak contained in the Farnham retailer.
The three current openings comply with the refurb and extension of M&S’s Westway department in Chelmsford, Essex.
M&S’s growth in Whetstone generated 30 further jobs (Picture: Getty)
M&S mentioned every of the three new outlets inventory all or many of the merchandise from its M&S Meals catalogue. This consists of the retailer’s “Remarksable Worth” and “Greater Pack Higher Worth” ranges.
Luton and Farnham are two of 12 former Homebase websites M&S is growing throughout the nation. The primary in Cannock opened in December and is triple the scale of the previous store. Meals gross sales have greater than doubled on the new department, in response to M&S.
Alex Freudmann, Managing Director at M&S Meals, mentioned in an announcement: “We’re remodeling M&S Meals and we would like each retailer now we have to supply the easiest of the meals vary to our prospects – from trusted worth to distinctive high quality and innovation.
“To do this, we’re discovering the suitable retailer areas with the suitable house throughout the UK that may enable us to supply the widest doable product vary for patrons and households.
“This month, we’re bringing M&S Meals to 3 new cities and now we have a powerful pipeline of recent openings deliberate for the yr forward.”
Underneath its growth plans, M&S can also be trying to find new, massive websites throughout 500 areas within the UK because the excessive road stalwart goals to develop the goal measurement of its meals shops to a median 18,000sqft.
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