The grocery-retailer has opened the doors to its relaunched Hempstead Valley supermarket in Kent, showcasing a new format design.
The 62,000sq ft store has been transformed into a next generation state-of-the-art Sainsbury’s store. The new-look supermarket provides a customer-first experience, with the local community now enjoying a brighter, faster superstore with enhanced product and service offerings.
The supermarket is home to the first Sainsbury’s Fresh Food Market, new-look café, dedicated on-the-go hub with snacking, coffee machine, fresh juicer and sushi bar, plus Argos store in store offer. The multi-million pound investment works also involved transforming the beauty department and clothing and home section and installing a new self-service patisserie counter, as well as a takeaway hot food bar including the retailer’s popular pizza counter.
The changes to the store are also expected to save the business approximately 30 percent in gas use and 15 percent in electricity annually. Sainsbury’s is committed to operating its stores sustainably and in line with its ambitious target to be Net Zero across its own operations by 2040 and has invested in new in-store initiatives to better operate the Hempstead Valley supermarket.
