Paisley KeyStore owner Jack Singh has relocated his store to a purpose-built site a few metres away on Wellmeadow Street in Castlehead, Paisley.
The store has more than doubled in size to 2,000sqft following a complete refit of a former restaurant building. The overall project cost £500,000.
Singh said that the move was “forced” after Renfrewshire Council carried out regeneration of the west end of Paisley in order to regentrify and create new social housing.
He added: “It was a no-brainer for us to accept the offer to move as we had no capacity to expand the store at that site and we had reached the stage where we wanted to modernise and introduce new services yet remain in the same area – and I’m delighted to say that not only have our existing customers followed us just a few yards along the road, we’re getting a lot of new business too.
“It was really exciting to be in that position to effectively start from scratch and design the store the way we wanted it – and also having so much more space, moving from 800sqft, we were able to include services we previously couldn’t and extend areas such as fresh and chilled.”
The project also involved business development manager at JW Filshill Robert Paton to work out how to best use the space.
Singh continued: “It’s been an A to Z of change, from a new roof, lighting and flooring to extending space for chilled and frozen, bringing in Costa coffee, a Tango Blast machine and putting in a beer cave which we believe may be one of the biggest in Scotland, if not the biggest.”
The relocated store is expecting to welcome more customers as oart of the regeneration of the area.
Craig Brown, chief sales and marketing officer at JW Filshill, said: “We’d like to congratulate Jack on the opening of his best-in-class convenience store in Paisley. Our team worked in partnership with Jack to create a store that has exceeded his expectations – this is a model store that should be a benchmark for other retailers to aspire to.
“With such strong and experienced regional development teams in place, we are ideally placed to partner with retailers who choose KeyStore as the best solution for achieving increased profit and margin, working with us to stimulate growth for our brand and customers in a competitive convenience marketplace.”
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