The UK’s leading Oriental grocer has completed an expansion project of its Croydon store, located on Purley Way.
The revamp has allowed Wing Yip’s second London store to further extend its space and offering to include a new cold warehouse, entrance lobby, extended shop floor and additional parking – doubling the total square footage of the shop floor and warehouse space to 60,000 square feet. The expansion has also enabled the store to offer its customers a more spacious shopping environment, widening aisle space to ensure a more comfortable and safe shopping experience.
The project on Purley Way launched in 2017 has reached completion just as Wing Yip marks its 50th anniversary. The £16M expansion demonstrates the stores long-term commitment and investment to serving authentic Oriental food and products to local restaurants and takeaways as well as members of the community since 1995.
The newly renovated store provides more space to supply an array of goods to its customers and enhance shopping experiences for the community, whilst also becoming more of a shopping destination to those travelling from outside of the local area. The store attracts customers into the Croydon area from as far afield as the South Coast. The expansion is also complete with a large array of solar and PV panels enhancing the stores use of green energy.
Albert Yip, Director of the Croydon store, says: “We are thrilled that the expansion of our new and improved Croydon store is now complete. We have been an integral part of the community here in Croydon for a quarter of a century and the store expansion means we will have more opportunities to expand our range and enhance shopper experience. As well as the local community, we have many customers who travel from outside of our catchment area to shop, and the expansion means we have become more of a destination for those customers.
“The store now also provides us with additional space to ensure our customers are shopping safely in the current climate. We have implemented specific health and safety measures to ensure the safety of our teams and customers. This has been applied across all four of the stores and includes managing the total number of customers in store at any time, adding line markings at check out and around the store to aid safe distancing and carrying out shop floor replenishment at quieter times. The store also conducts a health screening process before staff begin work, regular deep cleans and providing sanitiser supplies for customers to clean trolleys.
“As the nation’s demand for more adventurous and authentic tasting foods increases, we strive to develop our offering in keeping with consumer demand. We’re really excited by the prospect that this opportunity brings.”
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