Convenient plans for Marina store
SUPERMARKET chain Morrisons wants to open a store in Portishead.
Bosses at the retailer revealed plans to open an M-Local – the chain's new convenience stores – at a unit at Sixty8 The Marina.
No timescale has been set for the opening of the store but it is anticipated it would create around 15 jobs.
Half of the store would be given over to fresh food with a minimum of 100 lines of fresh fruit and vegetables as well as a strong presence of fresh meat, fish and bakery.
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Most of the fresh food will be prepared in larger, nearby Morrisons stores, with supermarket chiefs maintaining fresh products will be between four and 11 per cent cheaper than other convenience stores.
Features in the M-Local may include freshly ground coffee, a fresh orange juicer, a hot food to go counter and a salad bar. It is also likely the store will stock some locally produced products.
An application has now been submitted to North Somerset Council to allow the store to sell alcohol between 7am and 11pm seven days a week.
A spokesman for Morrisons said: "It is still very early days. We can confirm a licence application has been submitted and that the proposed store would be an M-Local – our convenience format. It is too soon in the process to set an opening date."
Morrisons, which has a store in Clevedon, is the latest in a long line of national food retailers to open in Portishead.
The town's Waitrose store opened in 2005 and Sainsbury's has been granted permission to open a new superstore on land at Serbert Way.
There is a large Co-operative store at Wyndham Way plus an Iceland supermarket in the High Street.
Lidl opened a store at Harbour Road last year and Tesco is also planning to open an Express store in the redundant Royal Oak pub at West Hill this spring, despite huge objections from local residents. The town also has a number of smaller convenience stores such as Costcutters at West Hill and the Whitecott Stores.
Comments
by garton
Tuesday, January 15 2013, 7:23AM
“Huge objection to Tesco?
more like a few nimby's with a pipe dream to reopen a pub that died of natural causes because no one went to it.”