Waitrose expands stores and refurbishments under £1bn plan

Waitrose & Partners is expanding its UK bricks-and-mortar property done caller shops, much franchise sites and a refurbishment thrust nether a multi-year £1bn ($1.35bn) concern plan.

The supermarket concatenation said it volition unfastened a 3,000ft² Little Waitrose convenience store connected Ascot High Street successful precocious 2026, creating 20 jobs.

The store volition inhabit a erstwhile slope portion and volition connection on-site parking, targeting some residents and visitors to the area.

Waitrose is besides broadening its tie-up with motorway work presumption relation Welcome Break done 4 much franchise outlets.

Two of those sites are already trading astatine Kate’s Cabin adjacent Peterborough and astatine Cornwall Services adjacent Bodmin.

The opening of these stores raises the fig of Waitrose stores operating astatine Welcome Break locations to 33.

Additional franchise openings are planned astatine the Spalding work area, Barrier Bank and Whitely, Warrington Crossroads.

Alongside the expansion, the retailer is continuing enactment connected its existing estate.

Over the past month, 7 branches person been refurbished, covering supermarkets successful Barnet, Chiswick, Haslemere, Ruislip and Menai Bridge, arsenic good arsenic convenience stores successful Knutsford and Muswell Hill.

The refurbishments person included updated nutrient and food counters, on with reworked bakery areas.

Waitrose said 30 stores are owed to beryllium refurbished during the year.

The concern has besides agreed a 7,000ft² determination astatine Chelmer Village Retail Park successful Chelmsford, which is scheduled to unfastened aboriginal this year.

Further ahead, it is readying a 30,000ft² full-range supermarket astatine Brabazon successful Bristol, expected to unfastened successful 2028 and make 150 jobs.

Separately, a 360,000ft² organisation hub astatine Mountpark’s Bristol 360 improvement is owed to statesman operating adjacent year.

The installation is intended to proviso astir 50 existing stores and has country to enactment further growth.

Waitrose determination manager Krys Jantzen said: “Securing a beingness connected Ascot High Street is simply a important determination successful our convenience store strategy. This determination puts Waitrose close astatine the bosom of a thriving community, with the subdivision designed to beryllium a destination for section shoppers and a frontrunner successful prime and service.”

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