Island's Newest Tesco Express Store Opens In Newport Creating 20 New Jobs

Wednesday, 26 June 2024 09:57

Tesco has welcomed customers to its new Express store in Newport, with the doors opened for the first time yesterday (25 June).

Jordan Guest, the store manager, said:

“We are really thrilled to be opening this new Tesco Express and begin serving local residents.

“This Express store will be offering a fantastic range of products, from fresh food to meal deals and our bakery.

“I am delighted to be opening this store with a fantastic team of colleagues, 20 of which are newly recruited.

“This store will be participating in the Tesco’s Stronger Starts grant scheme, which supports schools with some extra financial help to provide healthy food and activities that boost young people’s mental and physical wellbeing.

“We encourage all of our customers to nominate a school or group for this amazing grant programme.”

Local schools and community groups are invited to apply for community funding through Tesco’s 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 £1,500, second place £1,000 and third place £500.

The new Express store 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.

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