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Your local Dobbies Garden Centre may be getting a new look in the next month or so. The UK’s largest garden centre chain is launching a wave of revamped food halls as it separates from its grocery partner, Waitrose.
Dobbies York is the first store to unveil the business’s new cottage kitchen style food hall. In total, 48 of the UK’s 53 Dobbies Garden Centres are getting the new food shops. The rest are being rolled out over the coming weeks.
Customers will find a selection of more than 2,000 items on the food hall’s shelves, from sweet treats to posh crisps to high-end frozen produce like ready meals from Cook and ice cream from Judes, plus a range of alcohol and premium soft drinks.
The stores are also getting ‘enhanced’ in-house bakeries serving freshly-baked scones, pastries and traybakes are complemented alongside offerings from suppliers like Bothams of Whitby and Patteson’s macaroons.
Dobbies York general manager Darren Dixon said: ‘The food hall is one of the most popular areas in the store and an important part of our garden centre experience.
‘We’ve been working hard on the new format that’s inspired by a cottage kitchen garden and brings together essentials, treats and seasonal variety through a range of both popular and new brands. We’re excited to welcome customers in to see the new ranges and try them for themselves.’
The other Dobbies Garden Centres getting new and improved food halls include Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Dundee and Cadnam.
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