Co-op eyes growth with 75 new store openings in 2025

Co-op is set to open 75 new stores this year as it eyes convenience growth.

These will include up to 25 new Co-op operated stores with the first stores launching in early 2025 at The Anchorage in Salford Quays and East Benton in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

It comes comes as part of wider plans to open 120 new Co-ops over the next four years.

Alongside its traditional grocery offering, the stores will include added services including parcel collection and returns, as well as payment services. They will also operate as a hub for Co-op’s online quick commerce operation.

A further 50 sites are also expected to open as franchise stores this tear, allowing the retailer to operate in locations where it may not otherwise be able to access.

The supermarket chain will also refurbish 80 existing stores this year. Some of the stores that are set for a re-launch following major makeovers in early 2025 include those in Exeter, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Avonmouth, Hereford and Clapham.

Co-op MD Matt Hood said: “We want everyone to have easy and convenient access to a Co-op store, wherever they live, and this year we are completely focused on achieving that through an ambitious and exciting new stores strategy.

“Our stores play an active role in local life, and are often a community hub, providing the products and services our members and customers want and need.”

Source: Retail Gazette