Blantyre’s LIDL supermarket will close next week ahead of its demolition.
The store situated near the Whistleberry Roundabout, just off Glasgow Road has full planning permission to be demolished. The store closes next week on Saturday 16th March 2024.
However, for assurance LIDL intend to stay in the town with exciting plans to rebuild a slightly larger, reconfigured store on the SAME site and promising a better shopping experience for customers.
As the store makes plans this week, by running down stock and removing many of the hard goods already ahead of closure, Blantyre Telegraph has learned that all jobs will be protected with staff temporarily moved to other stores.
The new supermarket will be larger with a better layout and have many eco friendly features, such as arrays of solar panels on the roof and EV charging points for vehicles.
Construction work is expected to start soon and take up to a year, with re-opening prior to Easter 2025.
The new store will have a larger, more prominent shop entrance facing out to Glasgow Road, although entry will still be by the same, existing access road off the roundabout. A new glass frontage along Glasgow Road will be a feature of the new building. The existing car park of 113 spaces, whilst not currently fully utilised would be reduced to 91 spaces to make room for the larger shop footprint.
This is another great example of big business still investing and having retail confidence in our town, prompting competition with other large stores and at a time when elsewhere some of our public services and buildings are closing.
We look forward to seeing construction of the new store underway.
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