M&S looking for larger store

Marks & Spencer are looking to site a larger food store in Hertford with over 150 parking spaces.

The new store would be around 21,000 sq.ft on the edge of the town centre or an out of town location on a major road with easy access.

Hertford is one of 500 target locations the business it is considering for new and renewed Food stores as it aims to double the size of its Food business. All of these stores would be in a renewed format with an extended range of M&S Food, wider aisles for bigger shopping trolleys and larger car parks for more family shoppers.

Alex Freudmann Managing Director, M&S Food said: "The strong performance of our new M&S food stores gives us the confidence to explore even more locations across the UK, from Elgin to Exmouth. With more than twenty stores opening or modernised before the end of the financial year, we are moving faster. Our team want new sites where we could open a large M&S Food store as we deliver on our strategy to bring the right stores to the right places and offer the best shopping experience, range and availability for our customers."

The Marks & Spencer Simply Food store in Hertford opened in 2006 after buying the site from frozen food retailer Iceland.