The new store, at 910 Carmarthen Road near Ravenhill Park, opened its doors for the first time at 10am on Thursday the 15th of May.
Karl May, the store’s new manager, said: “We are absolutely delighted to open our new Tesco Express and begin serving the local community. Our shelves will feature a wide range of fresh produce, value-packed meal deals, and delicious bakery treats.
“We will also be welcoming 14 new colleagues to the store, with 9 being new to Tesco. We are also thrilled to be part of the Tesco Stronger Starts grant scheme, which provides essential funding to schools to support the health and wellbeing of children.”
Local schools and community groups are invited to apply for community funding through Tesco Stronger Starts, the retailer’s blue token voting scheme 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 will also participate 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, Tesco says its 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, with more than one million meals’ worth of food donated across the country each month.
