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Kash Retail to open new store with ‘eat in’ concept

Kash Retail to open its eighth Nisa Local store in the North Yorkshire market town of Bedale next month.

Work to open the new 2,300sq ft store has started, with a host of new services to be offered as well as a broad range of products.

Working with Nisa’s format and development team and Active Shopfitters, Nisa Local Bedale will fuse cutting-edge energy-efficient lighting and refrigeration with the listed building’s many original features.

The store will also boast a “strong” food- and drinks-to-go offer complemented by a new “eating in” concept.

Located close to the store’s entrance, the new seating area will seek to encourage shoppers “sit and enjoy the surroundings.”

The Bedale site is the eighth for Nisa key account Kash Retail with other stores all operating under a Nisa fascia in North Yorkshire and the north-east of England.

Area manager Alistair Bush said: “This will be one of our largest stores and we are trying out a few new ideas to see what works. “It will be the first time we have tried the food to go coupled with the eating in concept and so we are interested to see how that goes.

“We’ve worked closely with the team at Nisa to get the store design right and have tried to personalise it. We’re now looking forward to finishing the project and opening our doors to shoppers.”

The former Spar store had been standing empty for more than 18 months.