A Lichfield retailer will open a new store next week, bosses have confirmed.
Central England Co-op’s Fosseway Gate shop will welcome customers for the first time on 6th May.
The store – the third in Lichfield operated by the city-based retailer – is being built as part of the development of new housing along the Birmingham Road.
The new shop will feature self-checkouts, free water refills and customer toilets.
Store manager Lindsay Kearney said:
“Our brand new store in Lichfield is almost ready to launch and we can’t wait to open the doors to the local community and build some wonderful relationships with new customers and members as the new development continues to progress in the coming months.”
Lindsay Kearney, Central England Co-op
The Fosseway Gate store will be open from 7am to 10pm, Monday to Sunday.
The store will offer a wide range of products from everyday necessities to something a little more special.
Horrible development this is, especially the Persimmon side. Such a shame that this part of Lichfield has been ruined with these cramped, high-density unattractive small houses. Shame on LDC’s planning department for allowing this monstrosity.
This side of the city has been crying out for a convenience store that is open outside usual supermarket hours! 👏👏👏
Couldn’t agree more Simon. Our wonderful planners no doubt think they’ve done a marvellous job. It doesn’t bear thinking that only a third of the site has been built on so far.
What happened to the M & S store that was supposed to be going where the new CooP has now appeared?
Please please,LOOK AFTER OUR,LICHFIELD MARKET! and the market “ter’s,who look,after our HERRETAGE!!! (BRING BACK OUR DISABLED PARKING PLACE’S)no need for fancy plant pots,LICHFIELD IS BU’TIFULL,without THEM.
What a batch of mean-minded snappy little whines! Well done to the Co-op for meeting local people’s needs wherever they happen to settle. Reasonably-priced essentials usually served by local people themselves in proper employment contracts. People have to live – families particularly. Well done for businesses who employ local people on decent terms for coming in to provide for the ordinary folks – families not more of the elderly – joining our community. And welcome to Waterstones too!
Ooff!
Peter has become incoherent with rage.
At one point he coined the late Bernard Matthews catchphrase.
I reserve the right to be elderly and live in Lichfield😏
The loss of productive greenbelt farmland to a once only crop of commuter houses, is unsustainable. The scale of the housing development in South Lichfield is almost mindboggling. Where are the crops of cabbage, broccoli, peas and wheat going to be planted now? Fields in Africa and beyond perhaps, producing the food we need that’ll have to be shipped back here to be put on the shelves in the new Co-op Fosseway Gate store for us to buy. Crazy.
Does anybody know else they’re building next to the new co-op? Is it additional car parking or an additional store? 😬