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Bargain shop will bring jobs boost
Discount store Home Bargains is set to open a branch in Wellingborough, creating up to 40 new jobs.
Merseyside-based TJ Morris, which owns Home Bargains, said it hopes to have the store up and running by spring next year.
There are more than 170 branches of Home Bargains nationwide – including outlets in Kettering, Corby and Northampton – which employ more than 4,000 people.
TJ Morris has plans to increase the number of stores to 500 over the next decade and confirmed it was offering 2,000 new jobs by opening 50 new shops across the country over the next 12 months.
These stores include the proposed Wellingborough branch, as well as outlets in Stourbridge, Carlisle, Pontypridd, Longton, Shrewsbury, Cwmbran and Glasgow.
Home Bargains sells health and beauty goods, household products, snacks, drinks, alcohol and packaged and tinned foods at discount prices.
The news follows the announcement that QD Stores will open its doors in Kettering town centre on Tuesday, October 20, in the former Woolworths building in High Street.
QD managing director Justin Farrington Smith said: "We are looking forward to the opening in Kettering."
TJ Morris operations director Joe Morris said: "Home Bargains is thrilled to be investing in Wellingborough. We're looking forward to building on the success of the existing Kettering and Northampton stores in this vibrant market town."
A spokesman for the firm said: "The store is scheduled for completion and opening in March/April 2010."
The spokesman said the plans for the store were still subject to legal agreement so it is not guaranteed that the development will go ahead, but Wellingborough is in the firm's list of planned sites.
He added that each Home Bargains store creates between 30 and 40 jobs.
Mick Foster, of Butts Road, Wellingborough, said: "It's good for the town to have firms move into empty shops but I think Wellingborough could do with a bigger range of shops – a lot of people go to Northampton or Milton Keynes because they have more of a variety.
"But it's good for the people in the town who are looking for work."
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