Huge queues for Grand Opening of NEW superstore, The Range in Aylesbury this morning
Britain’s great value home, leisure and gardens retailer, The Range, celebrates the opening of its highly-anticipated new superstore in Aylesbury today. The opening took place at 9am this morning at the former Homebase site today at Broadfields Retail Park on Bicester Road.
The store was opened by special guest, Deputy Mayor of Aylesbury, Cllr. Mike Smith and the ribbon cutting was met with smiles and applause.
The Range gave away prizes to the first 50 in the queue including a star prize for the first in line. Eager customers queued up to browse the aisles and take advantage of special opening offers which are running in-store until 7th April. As well as this, the mix96 radio promo street team were in-store running a competition for one lucky customer to win a £250 gift card to spend in their brand new store.
Over this weekend and next, customers can enjoy free demonstrations and activities to keep the kids entertained. These include:
- Snazaroo face painting – Saturday 23rd March, 11am – 4pm
- Design Objectives demos – Saturday 30th March, 10am – 4pm
The new branch of The Range has created over 80 full and part-time jobs, from store to department managers, warehouse assistants to retail administrators, providing a fantastic boost to the local economy.
The new store is spread over two floors and has products across Arts & Crafts, Home Interiors and DIY departments. There is also a large outdoor garden centre and a family café serving a wide selection of hot & cold food and drink. This branch of The Range also provides the complete Iceland Foods offering including fresh food, bakery, store cupboard and drinks. It adds to the vast selection of home, leisure and gardens products in-store and will allow the retailer to deliver over 80,000 products all under one roof.
Plymouth based entrepreneur, the Owner and Founder of The Range, Chris Dawson commented: “It was great to have of so many people at the store opening this morning, hope they all managed to find some fantastic bargains. We are certain our new customers will enjoy the chance to browse The Range’s massive non-food selection under the same roof as Iceland’s unique food offering.
He added, “I’d like to thank all of the staff and merchandising team for all their hard work and efforts in getting the store ready for the opening today”.
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About The Range
- The Range is a home, garden and leisure retailer selling over 65,000 products across 16 departments including DIY, Homewares, Arts & Crafts and Textiles.
- Owned and run by entrepreneur and self-made billionaire, Chris Dawson, The
- Range started life as a market stall trading across the South West of England.
- The first store was opened in 1989 under the name CDS (Chris Dawson Superstores) and there are now over 160 stores across the UK and Ireland.
- The Range opened a £100m distribution centre in the South West of England in June 2017. At 1.2million sq. ft. the distribution centre is one of the largest in the UK. It has allowed the company to continue its mass expansion plans as well as providing over 1,000 new jobs for the area.
- The Aylesbury store has an outdoor garden centre, family café and Iceland Foods.
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