This week, Sainsbury’s celebrated opening a long-awaited flagship supermarket in Talbot Green, Wales. The brand-new store is set to be a game-changer for customers in and around the town, featuring an unbeatable combination of quality fresh food, great value, innovative products, and brilliant colleague service.
On Thursday, MP for Pontypridd Alex Davies-Jones joined colleagues, customers and local councillors to cut the ribbon and unveil Sainsbury’s Talbot Green for the local community for the first time.
The 53,000 sq. ft. store is centred around a state-of-the-art food hall designed to help customers rediscover the joy of food, showcasing Sainsbury’s revitalised commitment to ‘Good food for all of us’. From tasty fresh food and fruit and vegetables to bread and pastries baked daily, frozen favourites, and kitchen cupboard essentials, customers will find a delicious section of branded and own-brand products throughout the store. Meanwhile, new digital signage and displays are designed to help customers feel more inspired and make the store easier to navigate.
The new supermarket also features the retailer’s much-loved Habitat and Tu Clothing ranges. An Argos store inside will enable customers to purchase thousands of great-value toys, home products, and electrical items while picking up their groceries.
Just outside the store, in its spacious car park, customers can find Sainsbury’s brand-new ultra-rapid electric vehicle (EV) charging service, Smart Charge. Speedy, reliable and easy to use, the new facility will allow customers to charge EVs at one of six 150kW+ charging bays in as little as 30 minutes – providing enough power to travel up to 200 miles. Sainsbury’s Talbot Green is the second location in Wales to feature Smart Charge and the 30th in the UK so far.
Customers can also take advantage of a new Pay@Pump petrol station and Starbucks and Timpson on-site, giving them even more convenience and choice whenever they shop there.
Patrick Dunne, Sainsbury’s Director of Property, Procurement and EV Ventures, said he was immensely proud of everyone who helped deliver this fantastic new store.
“We’re determined to be First Choice for Food, ensuring more customers in our stores can enjoy more brilliant Sainsbury’s food, and Sainsbury’s Talbot Green is a prime example of how we’re striving towards that,” said Dunne.
Dunne continued that it was also exciting to celebrate the launch of its 30th Smart Charge location, the latest step in its plan to give confidence in public EV charging a significant boost by building a trusted ultra-rapid charging brand that helps reduce range anxiety for EV drivers nationwide.
“I’d like to take the opportunity to thank the Talbot Green community for all your support and patience whilst we constructed this store – I appreciate it’s been a long time coming, and I hope everyone will agree it was worth the wait.”
“We have thoroughly enjoyed welcoming customers through the doors of our brand-new store, and we look forward to getting to know many of them in the months and years to come,” said Martin Bennett, Sainsbury’s Talbot Green Store Manager.
Bennett said this was a proud moment for him and his team as this fantastic new supermarket launches; it puts their commitment to providing good food for all into practice for all customers in and around Talbot Green.
The store will be an active member of Sainsbury’s Nourish The Nation Programme, including its food donation partnership with Neighbourly, which works to reduce the amount of food waste within its operations and redistribute surplus food to those who need it most.
