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Marks and Spencer Targets Two Cornwall Towns for New Stores
Marks & Spencer seeks large, highly visible UK sites for new food stores averaging 18,000 sqft, aiming to create 800 jobs with 20 openings by April.
- On February 4, Marks & Spencer revealed an 83,000 sq ft Bath SouthGate flagship and published a 500 potential locations list across the UK.
- M&S says its expansion aims to double the size of its food business as part of an estate modernisation strategy, targeting larger sites to reach an 18,000sqft average Food store size.
- All renewed stores will follow a new format that includes extended M&S Food ranges, wider aisles, larger car parks, and last summer's acquisition of 12 Homebase sites led to the first Cannock converted store opening before Christmas.
- By April, Marks & Spencer plans to open or renew 20 stores, creating 800 new jobs as the programme accelerates transformation of its 330 existing M&S stores.
- By April 2028, over half of Marks & Spencer stores are expected to adopt the renewal format as M&S hopes to win weekly shoppers in towns without outlets such as Hove, Marlborough and Wallingford.
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