Tesco welcomed customers at two new Express locations in London on Friday, serving local communities north and south of the river.
The retailer’s new Woodberry Down Express store, located at Darter House on the Seven Sisters Road, opened its doors early on Friday and features a bakery, InPost locker service, a Costa facility and the sale of lottery tickets.
Sujat Chowdhury, the store’s new manager, said: “We are absolutely delighted to open our new Tesco Express and begin serving the local community.”
“Our shelves will feature a wide range of fresh produce, value-packed meal deals, and delicious bakery treats.”
“We are also thrilled to be part of the Tesco Stronger Starts grant scheme, which provides essential funding to schools to support the health and wellbeing of children.”
Meanwhile in south London, Tesco’s Church Road Mitcham Express store also opened its doors for the first time on Friday, with the first three customers through the doors awarded a box of Cadbury Milk Tray chocolates and a bottle of Tesco Finest Prosecco. As well as featuring an in-store bakery and Costa facility, this store will also have on-site parking.
Schools and community groups local to the two stores are invited to apply for community funding through Stronger Starts, Tesco’s blue token voting scheme, which sees three local projects voted on by customers in store every three months, with first place awarded up to £1,500, second place up to £1,000 and third place up to £500. Local organisations can apply to be part of the next voting round by visiting https://tescostrongerstarts.org.uk/
The two new stores will also participate in the Community Food Connection scheme, which redistributes surplus food to charities and community groups from every Tesco store at the end of each day.
Since its launch in 2016, the Tesco Community Food Connection Scheme has donated more than 145 million meals to charities across the UK.
This scheme is run in partnership with food redistribution charity FareShare. Each month more than one million meals’ worth of food are donated across the country.
