A CO-OP supermarket in Coventry has reopened after a £508,000 lockdown refurbishment.
The Coundon food store in Norman Place Road now has an extended range of takeaway food and drinks including Rollover hot dogs, Costa Coffee, F’Real milk shakes and Tango Ice Blast.
Other new additions include a wider choice of beers, wines and spirits, self-scan tills and a foodbank for FareShare – the food poverty charity championed by England International Marcus Rashford.
The store also offers locally-sourced produce as part of the Heart of England Co-operative Society’s Local@Heart campaign, boosting local businesses like Coventry-based Dhillon’s Brewery and Alcester-based Fatherson Bakery.
It is the 10th capital project undertaken by the Society’s Food Division since the beginning of the first lockdown in March taking the total invested in Society-owned Co-op branches to almost £1.7 million. In October the Society’s new-look Earlsdon food store was unveiled following a £664,000 refit.
Other projects completed at branches of The Co-operative since lockdown include Allesley Old Road and Tile Hill in Coventry, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Cedar Road and Coniston Way in Nuneaton, Warwick Gates, Wellesbourne and Gun Hill.
Steve Browne, general manager of the Society’s Food Division, said: “We are proud of our new-look store in Norman Place Road which we feel will give shoppers a more vibrant experience.
“We have implemented many of these new features in some of our most recently opened or most recently refitted stores. They are proving a huge success, meeting the needs of our members and customers and giving them added choice.”
To further reduce its carbon footprint the Society uses energy efficient lighting, heating and refrigeration in all of its new developments.
