Nottingham welcomes the UK’s newest Tesco to its city centre
Tesco colleagues have spent the morning welcoming excited customers to the retailer’s newest UK store in the centre of Nottingham.
Notts Nelson Court Express is located just across the road from the city’s Motorpoint Arena on Nelson Street and is on the ground floor of the city’s Nelson Court IQ student accommodation block. A crowd of excited shoppers were waiting outside ahead of the stores grand 8am opening, with store colleagues eager to welcome people inside for the first time.
Among the features on offer at the new store are a wide range of food to go options, a bakery section, Costa Coffee and an InPost locker service.
Store Manager Dan Wagstaff said, “It is both exciting and rewarding to see the store come together and we look forward to building new relationships within the community and welcoming new colleagues to work from the local area.
It is also great to be situated close to the well-known charity Emmanuel House who we have recently started to work with to help raise food donations and we look forward to building a strong partnership with them in the future.”
Local schools and youth groups supporting the development of young people are also being invited to apply for community funding through Tesco’s Stronger Starts scheme, the retailer’s blue token voting initiative which sees three local projects voted on by customers in store every three months, with first place awarded up to £1,500, second place up to £1,000 and third place up to £500.
The new Express store is also participating 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.