Tesco colleagues in Ealing are celebrating a successful first week of trading at one of the retailer’s newest UK stores.
Ealing Northfield Avenue Express is London’s newest Tesco and opened its doors for the first time on the morning of Friday the 7th of November in front of a crowd of excited local shoppers. The store is located at 101-103 Northfield Avenue, just a stone’s throw from Lammas Park and a five-minute walk from Northfields Tube Station.
Store manager Thanaraj Rajaratnam said, “The first few days have been fantastic! We’ve had a great response from the local community and footfall has been strong. As the store’s new manager, I am particularly looking forward to building strong relationships with the local community and helping our new team of colleagues grow together.”
Among the services available at the new store are a bakery section, InPost lockers, Costa Coffee and an ATM. The store also welcomes four new Tesco colleagues to work alongside the other
Local schools and community groups are also invited to apply for community funding through Tesco Stronger Starts, the retailer’s blue token voting scheme which sees three local projects voted on by customers, with first place awarded up to £1,500, second place up to £1,000 and third place up to £500.
The new store also participates in Tesco’s 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. The programme is run in partnership with food redistribution charity FareShare, with more than one million meals donated across the country each month.
