THRIVING LICENSED CONVENIENCE STORE TAKING £12,000PW IN HARTLEPOOL

Taking £12,000PW * Long established community store offering excellent range of products & services * Spacious & extremely well fitted mini-supermarket parade premises * Densely populated coastal town centre outskirts * High volume of year-round regular & passing trade * Scope for extended hours & deliveries etc in outstanding main road position * Sensibly priced for quick genuine sale * Viewing highly recommended REF1007

The subject premises occupy an outstanding and highly visible corner trading position among other complementary independent operators on the densely populated residential outskirts of the vibrant seaside town of Hartlepool, which lies with excellent access both to major road links (A178, A1086, A179, A689 and A19 etc.) and to the nearby centres of Middlesbrough (approximately 7.5 miles) and Sunderland (approximately 17 miles) on the delightful and dramatic North Sea coast of County Durham.

We are delighted to present this marvellous opportunity to acquire a thriving commercial proposition of real quality and further potential, which we are confident you will agree represents genuine value.

This long established store has become an important focal point of the local community in the course of many years’ highly successful trading by conducting an extremely useful and popular retail operation of a wide selection of daily shopping essentials.

The store’s products include ‘Lifestyle Express’ branded general and frozen convenience grocery items, fresh bought-in bakery and dairy products, general household goods, over-the-counter news, confectionery tobacco lines, associated sundries and an excellent choice of traditional beers, wines and spirits, all displayed to its very best advantage in a bright, spacious and welcoming mini-supermarket-style customer service area.

The “Eleven O’Clock Shop” also holds valuable National Lottery, electronic Paypoint, Western Union international money transfer and ATM cash machine franchises and operates from premises of a size which would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with ample scope for continued growth, not least with regard to still further expansion of the retail products currently offered and to the possible provision of local delivery services, particularly for elderly customers in outlying areas.

The business would also benefit by operating significantly extended morning retail hours in order to improve upon the already high levels of turnover it is achieving in the hands of the current proprietor, with the aid of a small, experienced and motivated team of three shop staff who would be an asset to any purchaser, and we strongly recommend the earliest possible viewing to avoid disappointment.

These substantial and extremely well fitted leasehold end-of-parade premises provide excellent and highly functional internal business accommodation, which briefly comprises a broad and inviting corner public entrance directly off Stockton Road (B1277) into the main, bright, welcoming and deceptively spacious, open-plan retail sales and customer service area, set out in mini-supermarket style with diffused fluorescent lighting throughout.

The main customer service area houses a full range of well maintained, fixed and freestanding, purpose-built display furniture and shelving, in addition to various refrigerated and frozen display cabinets, ample periodical racking, a large dedicated off-licence section, an ATM cash machine and a prominent, fully fitted point-of-sale counter area with spirits, confectionery and sundry displays, tobacco gantry, electronic till point with full EPOS system, National Lottery terminal and full complement of electronic Paypoint and Western Union international money transfer facilities.

Further ancillary internal business accommodation consists of a large, secure storeroom and a further smaller general dry goods storage area, together with a basic shop kitchen area and all the usual washroom/WC facilities.

The premises also enjoy the benefit of electric heating, in addition to the added security benefits of steel roller shutters to the main entrance, CCTV monitoring and a full alarm system.

Externally:

Occupying an outstanding corner trading position among other complementary independent operators on a high footfall suburban commercial thoroughfare, to the exterior the premises are well signed and presented, with unrestricted customer parking available locally.

The business is well fitted throughout and a valuable inventory of equipment is to be included in the sale price