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Mrs Brown said community was An award-winning frozen food at the heart of the business. company that focuses on helping She said: “At the start of the pandemic, the community is opening we started to get elderly a new shop in Bath. customers ringing up asking if we
The COOK store, in the Bear Flat could deliver them food as they help connect people and bring neighbourhood, will launch on were struggling to get to the supermarket communities closer together,” said May 10. and were shielding. Mrs Brown.
It will be the company’s first new “We quickly set up a ‘Kindness “The opportunities for genuine shop opening since the coronavirus Fund’ to provide free meals for community shops that bring a differentiated pandemic began. those who needed them. It relied product and service Bear Flat was chosen because of on people being honest – they’d have never been better.
Welcome its “lovely community feel”, according come in and say they were shopping “Matching our remarkable instore to the company’s co-chief executive, for an elderly neighbour or hospitality with friendly doorstep Rosie Brown. someone who couldn’t get out and delivery direct from the shop
Mrs Brown is a former pupil of we would provide free meals for means we can offer customers the Monkton Combe School and said them.” best of all worlds – the joy of shopping Bath held fond memories for her. The fund helped NHS workers, locally and being treated like a
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She said: “Bath is a much-loved the elderly or vulnerable, and families friend; a slick e-commerce experience; city and it means a lot to be able to struggling due to the impact of and personal home delivery open a shop here. It is very exciting the pandemic, and has now grown that makes a connection on the to be opening in the old Carphone to give away 200,000 meals and doorstep.”
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Warehouse premises and to be able treats. The shop will open next to to serve the community.” “Through the Kindness Fund Majestic Wine in 12-18 Wellsway.
The company not only plans to we’ve seen first-hand how nourishing In the past year, COOK has seen use the shop for walk-in retail, but meals, made like you would at online retail sales grow to 60 per also as a hub for its local delivery home with love and care, can really cent from less than 20 per cent
before the pandemic, and has launched local delivery from all of its 88 shops nationwide.
COOK co-founder and CO-CEO, Ed Perry, Mrs Brown’s brother, said: “We believe great communities need great shops. We’re truly excited to be opening a shop in Bath, where we’ve wanted to be for ages. There’s no question our high streets are being reinvented out of necessity and we believe COOK shops will continue to have a bright future as brand outposts and beacons of kindness and connection in the communities we serve.”
COOK was founded in 1997 by Mr Perry and Dale Penfold, is independently owned and has been ranked among the 100 Best Companies To Work For every year since 2013.