Coles Local Chatswood includes Australia’s first ecostore refill station, doggie ice cream and the biggest-ever Asian range.
Coles Local Chatswood is uniquely personalised to the community that it serves, featuring more than 200 plant-based food products, ice cream just for dogs, a premium coffee and orange juice station, a macaron, mini gelato and Japanese mochi ice cream parlour, and a dedicated aisle with the largest Asian range in the country.
In an Australian supermarket first, Coles Local Chatswood debuts a range of refillable ecostore shampoos, conditioners, body washes, and laundry liquids available for customers through a new in-store refill station using bottles made from recycled and sugarcane plastic, eliminating the need for single-use bottles.
“Coles Local Chatswood is a brand-new neighbourhood supermarket destination with new products sourced from 35 small Sydney suppliers, and innovative features that customers may not have seen before. As we make progress on our mission to be Australia’s most sustainable supermarket, we’re increasingly looking at new and inventive ways to reduce packaging on certain products. This new ecostore station is a first for an Australian supermarket, which we hope will resonate well with customers,” comments Coles Chief Sustainability, Property and Export Officer, Thinus Keevé.
Ecostore Managing Director Pablo Kraus said this was the first time the company had installed a refill station in an Australian supermarket to help reduce packaging waste. “After successfully launching over 80 Refill stations across New Zealand, we are thrilled to bring the first insupermarket ecostore Refill Station trial for home and personal care products to Australian customers, at the new Coles Local Chatswood store,” he said.
