Marks and Spencer It has announced that it will open 12 new food reserves on East home base Sites continue across England as British High Street Retailer Recover from a cyber attack,
The brand said that it is expected Create over 550 new jobs The DIY company in this step after its 33 stores closed in February.
M&S plans to open ten food stores and two full line stores this year. It has released the names of five places so far, linking all store schemes was subject to the permission of the scheme.
The declared latest store consists of two 18k square foot food halls Abbingdon And Cancock is expected to open at the end of 2025. In 2026, the company aims to open an 18k square foot food hall in Fernham, in a 22k square foot food hall in. Godaling – Its biggest standalone food store to date – and a 16k square foot food hall in Northampton.
The brand promised that these new food stores would take the entire range of M&S food products, including market-style fruits and vegetables, large bakery with fresh coffee, as well as click and collect counters for the orders of wide fashion, home and beauty range of M&S.
M&S CEO Stuart Machin said: “Investing in new and renewed stores is one of our major changes preferences. Security of these highly desirable sites in priority places will accelerate this strategy, will further increase further growth in our M&S food business and most importantly our customers will give the best M&S ​​purchasing experience.”
The brand said in a statement that new stores took a significant step forward in the M&S store rotation and renewal program, focusing on holding the right store in the right place with the right place and is an important strand in business change as it resumes for development. “
The objective of M&S is to create a more productive group of “420 large, fresher food stores and 180 full line stores” through its store rotation and renovation program by 2027/28, upgrading its location for some stores or renovating other outlets for some stores.
Its renewed dining stores include large car parks, a coffee bakery, where customers can catch a warm drink, while they shop with bread -with broad corridors and extended frozen areas.
Last year, M&S opened six food stores and two full line stores as well as nine existing stores. The average of these new food reserves was 15k sq ft.
The latest step of the brand to expand recently follows Cyber ​​attack The price of which was £ 300 million, as M&S was forced to shut down its online shopping operation.
The attack has evacuated the shelves in some shops and made online orders incomplete as the retailer offered the system after being targeted by hackers around the Easter weekend.
Metropolitan Police Confirmed Detectives of Force Cybercrime Unit began an investigation, which continues.
