New store premieres in West Moors
By Simon Reed
A new Premier convenience store is fighting for customers against three other competitors in West Moors.
The branch, one of over 2,400 in the United Kingdom, on Farm Road first welcomed customers through their doors three weeks today on the 6th of November.
It has opened despite two stores round the corner on Station Road, the Southern Co-operative and Tesco Express, as well as Martins on Pinehurst Road at the other end of the village.
But Ruban Logan, manager of the Premier store, said that their prices on key items will work in their favour.
“We can beat their price, we have more products cheaper. Our four pint bottles of milk, we’re selling for £1.09, they’re selling for about £1.49.”
He added that they needed patience to see whether they can attract enough customers, and said: “We’re waiting to put the sign in, as once as they put the sign up people will know we’re here. We’ll see how it goes, everything takes time.”
Tom Gilson, a Sales Assistant at Martins, thinks that four stores could happily co-exist in West Moors but their business could suffer slightly.
“I’d say they can try. I mean the co-op and the Tesco’s cope well without any real worries. They’re doing the same thing as us delivering papers so we would say it would have an effect on us.”
Both Tesco Express and the Southern Co-operative stores in West Moors were not willing to comment on the issue.
(Above- The new Premier store on Farm Road)
*This piece was meant to be published in The Stour and Avon Magazine this week, but to quote their editor when I asked them to put it in-
“No sorry Simon. It's something that needs to be advertised”
It’s a shame because I think it’s a relevant issue for the village. C’est la vie.*
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