‘Collect goods later’ scheme for purchases in market

The market has introduced a scheme, which allows customers to leave their shopping in a secure chill room any time from 8am, and collect it later in the day – up until 6pm.

The new cool store room is located at the bottom end of the market in the purpose-built information centre.

Customers wishing to store their purchases at the market simply hand over their goods to reception, and are given a ticket to present when they come back to collect.

The scheme is not just for chilled items – the store room can accommodate heavy or bulky purchases too, which customers can collect later in the day. Between 5pm and 6pm cars can drive right up to the rear entrance of the market to make collection even easier.

Sue Burgess, Leeds City Council’s markets manager said: “We are aware the market opening hours do not fit to everyone’s daily schedules, and therefore we have introduced the store room to allow people time during the day to do their shopping, without the worry of carrying items back to the office, or trying to store produce in the office fridge. Our new shop & drop scheme will allow customers to do all their shopping at whatever time of day suits them, and then they can come and collect their purchases up until 6pm.

“We think this is the first scheme of its kind in a UK market.”

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