This new announcement will take the total number of stores opened by Co-op in 2024/25 to over 200, with an investment of more than £200 million.
There are currently more than 2,500 Co-op food stores across the UK.
Included in the new round of openings, taking place before Christmas, is:
- The first permanent retailer at the new Brent Cross Town development in London
- New micro-format ‘On The Go’ stores
- A new franchise store at Lancaster University (which will take the number of university campus Co-op franchise stores to 11)
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Each site will offer member price savings, parcel collection, and rapid delivery through Co-op’s own online shop and partners including Just Eat, Deliveroo and Uber Eats.
Full list of 51 Co-op stores opening in the UK before Christmas
The full list of 48 new and transformed Co-op stores opening in the UK before Christmas is:
- Irvine
- Isleworth
- Barking
- Llanidloes
- Earls Barton
- Lancaster University Campus
- Cuxton
- Kingswells
- Kingussie
- Bowden
- Evanton
- Runcorn
- Runcorn
- Dedworth
- Southwick
- Isle of Grain
- Ludwick, Welwyn Garden City
- Bebington
- London (City Road)
- Oxenhope
- Blaenavon
- Penkhull
- Great Moor
- Brent Cross
- Selkirk
- Wynyard
- Bristol
- Callander
- Inverness
- Southampton
- Eastern Green (Coventry)
- Gamlingay
- Clipstone
- Kentish Town
- Stratford-Upon-Avon
- Swallownest
- Brora
- Westfield, Yeovil
- Theale
- Rhosllannerchrugog
- Burley in Wharfedale
- Shoreham
- Fortrose
- Axminster
- Flitwick
- Tavistock
- Lowton
- Gairloch
There will also be three Co-op On The Go stores opening in:
- Aylesbury
- Kingston
- Leamington
These openings follow two other On The Go openings in Solihull and Altrincham.
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Co-op Group CEO, Shirine Khoury-Haq, said: “We’re investing in stores and communities right across the UK because we believe in the future of the high street.
“But sustained growth needs certainty. Business-rates reform is vital if retailers – especially the 99% who run small stores – are to plan with confidence, protect jobs and keep local economies thriving.
“Co-op is showing what’s possible when businesses commit to communities.
“The Government now has an opportunity in the Autumn Budget to do its part by delivering the reform that’s long been promised – giving every retailer, from small to large, the stability to invest and grow.”
