Pop-up’s back for a little egg-stra retail this Easter
LOCAL independent businesses are being given free retail space again to sell their products in the heart of Carmarthen town centre.
The Carmarthenshire Councilrun 100% Sir Gar pop-up shop is returning for Easter to the empty Debenhams store in St Catherine’s Walk. It will be open next week from Tuesday until Thursday between 10am and 2pm.
It follows the hugely successful 100% Sir Gar pop-up shops held at Christmas and during the February half-term holiday, which saw thousands of people flock to the pop-up stalls inside the former department store.
New traders using the pop-up for the first time this month include Welsh Soul, Llawn Cariad, Doris and Daughters, Annwyl, and Truly Madly Deeply.
Returning will be Cotton Box, Caru Candles, Bodlon, Efail, Louise
Arts, Sians Emporium and Melys Neis.
Following Carmarthenshire Council securing use of the former Debenhams unit to continue running its customer service Hwb and tourist information centre from there ahead of its redevelopment, it has decided to allow businesses to use the space once again.
Leader of the council, Cllr Emlyn Dole, said previously: “We were so pleased to see the sheer numbers of people who supported our 100% Sir Gar pop-up shops in December and February and to hear the feedback from traders who found it so helpful to their business.
“Every purchase made from our local independent businesses is money in the pockets and tills of local people, and that is one of the key aims of our economic recovery plan – supporting local businesses to thrive.”