Locations of Asda’s 20 new Express stores revealed
Asda Express is expanding its estate and plans to open 20 new convenience stores over four weeks beginning in late October.
The business plans to expand its footprint to areas where it has limited presence, at high-footfall urban areas, residential locations and transportation hubs.
David Lepley, chief supply chain officer of Asda said: “We’re thrilled to kick off the next phase of our Express rollout and bring our heritage in delivering outstanding value to more locations across the UK.
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“In just three years, we’ve grown from zero convenience stores to establishing a major presence in the channel, with almost 500 stores by the end of the year. This continued investment reflects the confidence we have in our convenience strategy and our focus on bringing Asda’s low prices to more local communities.”
The retailer will open a site in Castleford at the start of October, which includes a range of branded and private label products as well as top-up shops for essential goods.
The new stores will open at:
- Castleford – Holywell Lane
- London – Tower Bridge
- Greenwich – South Street
- Limehouse Station
- Harringay – Green Lanes
- Stoke – Station Road
- Finsbury Park Station
- Deptford – Landings
- Botley – Boorley Green
- Whetstone – High Road
- Ferndown – Wimborne Road
- Tottenham Hale West
- Crystal Palace – Anerley Road
- Deepcut – Bridge Road
- Harrow – Headstone Drive
- Manchester – Square Gardens
- Liverpool – Parliament St
- Horncastle
- Wigan – Mesnes Road
- Heath Hayes – Hednesford Road
- Cadishead – Liverpool Road
- Bradford – Toller Lane
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The Tower Bridge store has been kitted out, branded, and… sitting idle all year.
It’s a good idea for these express stores in urban areas but outside of these urban areas they’re not ideal because you can’t do a weekly shop in them. I do think Asda lacks ambition when it comes to big supermarkets.
Used to work in Asda they should concentrate on getting the big stores up to standard before opening new little ones
I am not sure re-branding/changing supplier constitutes ‘new’ Convenience stores under the Express banner. Actual new sites is actually in single figures isn’t it!
All of these are brand new sites, not one of them is a previous Asda/EG or Co-op.
Most are new builds or repurposed
Never, the north east 🤔
Maybe they need to focus on what they have ruined already and try and rebuild the broken brand and invest in stores and extra colleagues that they need to repair the damage done by the issa brothers and look at restoring Asda as a reputable and competitive business