Tesco opens new Birkenhead Express store

Tesco opens new Birkenhead Express store

27 February 2023

Tesco welcomed customers to the opening of a new Tesco express store in Woodchurch Road, Birkenhead on Sunday [February 26]. 

As well as providing a wide range of affordable, healthy and sustainable food. The Southgate Tesco Express will also have a positive impact in the local community through its community programmes - Tesco Community Grants and Community Food Connection across Birkenhead.

Supporting the local community is hugely important to Tesco and its colleagues, and over the last five years, the supermarket’s customers in Birkenhead have helped to raise £118,690 for 73 groups and good causes through its blue token voting scheme known as Tesco Community Grants. 

Since its launch in 2015, The Tesco Community Food Connection Scheme has also donated 277,525 meals to local charities in the area. The scheme has ensured no surplus food goes to waste from Tesco stores and distribution centres.

Given the pressures on household budgets, Tesco remains committed to providing value now more than ever. We know our customers are looking to save money on their food shop and this store will have a combination of Aldi Price Match, Low Everyday Prices and Clubcard Prices ensuring they are getting the best deals every time they shop with us.

Store Manager Louise Darroch said: “We are extremely excited to be opening our new Express store and helping to serve the local community. We want to offer great value to our customers and the benefits of Tesco Clubcard and Clubcard pricing.

“We’ve got colleagues joining the team from the local area. We know that local knowledge and experience will be so important as we look to build connections and play our part in the community.”

Any local groups that would benefit from Tesco Community Grants funding are encouraged to apply here: www.tescocommunitygrants.org.uk/ 

Managing Director of Dransfield Properties, Mark Dransfield DL, said: “We are delighted to be working with Tesco on this latest development in Birkenhead. We have transformed what was an eyesore on an important gateway to the town, into now what is an attractive district centre providing new convenient and accessible facilities to the local community. 

"We will have the remainder of the development completed by Easter with a sun bed salon, gym, tyre and exhaust centre and car wash opening alongside the Tesco store creating 35 jobs in total for the area.”

Through distribution partners, FareShare and the Trussell Trust, local groups across the country are dedicated to ensuring that the most vulnerable within our communities are supplied with essentials even if they cannot leave home. 

The Community Food Connection scheme is run in partnership with food redistribution charity FareShare. Each month more than a million meals of food are donated. To find out about the scheme, please visit: https://www.tescoplc.com/sustainability/product/food-waste/supporting-customers-communities/community-food-connection/

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For further information, contact:

Public Relations Department, Dransfield Properties Ltd
Tel: 01226 360644
Email: pr@dransfield.co.uk