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Poundland has announced that it is set to commence refurbishments on 150 stores set to be completed by August this year.
The ‘Project Evo’ transformations will see each of the stores get a top-to-bottom refresh to bring them up to date.
The refresh will be the first significant investment in the majority of these stores for over five years as both customer aisles and colleague areas get a major renovation.
As part of the transformation, the stores will also get fresh new signage, flooring and lighting while back office colleague areas will also be given a makeover to make them better places to work.
Contractors are already on site in 11 locations across the UK and Ireland so stores can be relaunched over the next fortnight.
The first set of stores will be completed on 17 February in Urmston, Keynsham, Darlington and Plymouth in England as well as Dealz stores in Mullingar and Cavan.
Alan Smallman, Poundland’s director of property services, said: “Project Evo represents a significant investment in a substantial number of stores to make them brilliant places to shop and work.Over the past five years we’ve transformed our offer for customers, adding extensive ranges of clothing, homewares, chilled and frozen food.
“We’re now embarking on a programme that will show off those ranges in a modern and bright environment that’s easy to shop, navigate and checkout. We look forward to bringing our best offer to these 150 stores over the coming months.”
