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Marks and Spencer has confirmed the opening date of its model new meals retailer at Fairacres Retail Park in Abington, Oxfordshire. The fashionable retailer, identified for its high-quality merchandise, has introduced that its 18,000 sq ft fresh-market-style meals corridor will open to clients subsequent week.

Shoppers can get their palms on on a regular basis necessities and family requirements, in addition to the retailer’s newest merchandise, from April 22. Stock contains baked items and rotisserie rooster, with the shop that includes a sizzling rooster counter, an in-store bakery, and a espresso counter.

The Abington retailer may even supply contemporary produce from M&S’s Select Farm companions, with over 60 based mostly in Oxfordshire, and home a devoted Click & Collect level, making on-line searching for its clients simpler than ever.

Paddy Sunderland, Store Manager at M&S Abingdon, has labored at M&S for six years and mentioned of the opening: “We can not wait to open our brand-new retailer within the coronary heart of Oxfordshire. The staff and I are so excited to welcome clients via the doorways and showcase the easiest of M&S Food and the standard and trusted worth we’re identified for.

“With the full range of M&S Food products, we have everything for customers’ weekly shop but also something for everyone, whether grabbing lunch on the go or wanting to try our latest seasonal launches. Follow our store social page here for all the latest updates.”

The retailer additionally revealed that the brand new retailer opening created 75 jobs for the native space. Positions embody specialised roles within the in-store bakery and sizzling counter, in addition to alternatives throughout customer support and operations.

Last July, M&S revealed that it’s aiming to have 180 full-line and 420 meals halls delivering the very best of M&S merchandise to clients by the top of the 2028 monetary yr.

M&S is constant to maneuver ahead with its plans, with the Abingdon retailer being one in every of 12 former Homebase websites throughout the UK that M&S is growing into brand-new, fresh-market-style meals halls.

Once opened, clients can go to the shop between 8am and 9pm on Mondays to Saturdays and between 10am and 4pm on Sundays.