A Harrogate convenience store is set to close temporarily next week for refitting and rebranding works.

The McColl's shop on Royal Parade, opposite the Royal Pump Room Museum, will close at noon on Tuesday, September 12 and reopen 10 days later as a Morrisons Daily. The changes will include complete rebranding and alterations to the internal layout of the shop. 

The new-look store is due to reopen at 7am on Friday, September 22. 

A Morrisons spokesperson told the Stray Ferret: 

The revamp of the Royal Parade shop is part of a rolling programme of works, as McColl's shops are converted into Morrisons Daily stores following the acquisition of McColl’s by Morrisons last year. 

McColl's had 1,164 shops when it was bought out of administration by Morrisons in May 2022. Of these, Morrisons said it would sell off 132 which were loss-making, including the one on Harlow Hill. The rest – such as the Bilton store, which was converted last year – are to be rebranded as Morrisons Daily stores.

In a second-quarter trading update issued in June, Morrisons said the 400 stores it has converted so far had seen increased sales. It added that it now has almost 650 Morrisons Daily stores across the UK, and expects to have almost 1,000 by the end of the year.

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