Popular womenswear brand Vanilla has opened at The Rock Shopping Centre.
The London-based retailer officially opened its doors on Friday (24th February) and the new store is home to the brand’s Blue Vanilla and Pink Vanilla labels.
Michelle Burns, head of retail stores at Vanilla, said: “We have been very selective when searching locations for our first Vanilla store in the North West of England and The Rock Shopping Centre in Bury is the perfect location with its impressive selection of retail stores.”
Arnold Wilcox-Wood, Centre Director at The Rock, added: “We’re thrilled to welcome Vanilla to The Rock and we’re sure the new store will prove to be very popular with our visitors.”
Blue Vanilla offers outfits for a variety of occasions with everything from casual day looks to glamourous dresses and Pink Vanilla targets a younger audience aged 14 to 24, with fashion items inspired by street style, social media and pop culture.
Shoppers in Bury had to look twice when glitzy roller skaters roamed through The Rock Shopping Centre – all with the aim of spreading the love.
On Saturday 11th February, The Rock’s gameshow host donned the suit of love and hit the mall with two roller skating cherubs to surprise customers ahead of Valentine’s Day.
Visitors were asked some fun questions, or lyrics to classic love songs and if answered correctly they were rewarded with a token of love from The Rock and its retailers.
Throughout the day more than 80 prizes were handed out to customers, including vouchers from The Rock’s retailers.
Arnold Wilcox-Wood, Centre Director at The Rock, said: “We were so pleased to be able to surprise and delight so many shoppers in time for Valentine’s Day – our theatrical brand ambassadors certainly brightened up Bury and made a lot of people smile.
“This is the first of our events for 2023 and it kicked off the promotional calendar in style.’
Popular womenswear brand Vanilla is to open a new store at The Rock Shopping Centre later this month.
The London-based retailer will take on a 2,939 sq ft unit at the centre and the new store will be home to the brand’s Blue Vanilla and Pink Vanilla labels.
Blue Vanilla offers outfits for a variety of occasions with everything from casual day looks to glamourous dresses and Pink Vanilla targets a younger audience aged 14 to 24, with fashion items inspired by street style, social media and pop culture.
The store will create 11 new jobs in the town and will open in the former Infinities unit on Central Street on Friday 24th February.
Michelle Burns, head of retail stores at Vanilla, said: “We have been very selective when searching locations for our first Vanilla store in the North West of England and The Rock Shopping Centre in Bury is the perfect location with its impressive selection of retail stores.”
Arnold Wilcox-Wood, Centre Director at The Rock, added: “Vanilla is the latest in a line-up of popular brands to join The Rock and we’re thrilled to welcome them to the centre. We know that Vanilla is very popular and we’re sure it’ll be a big hit with our visitors.
“It’s another fashion brand to add to our centre and strengthens our womenswear offering. We wish the team every success in Bury.”
The shopping and leisure destination has recently welcomed Blue Inc, Tessuti, Bob & Berts and Legacy Pets to its tenant mix.
Having recently rebranded as The TCB Unlimited Dining Experience, at THE Chinese Buffet Group we have now introduced high tech team members to do the leg work when it comes to serving their customers.
Their restaurants now have robots, or ‘Bella’ as they call her in-house, to deliver food directly to your table, reducing the hundreds of journeys to and from the kitchens by our team, each time a new order is placed, which as you can imagine, is pretty frequently now everyone is ordering via the app.
Paolo Hu, our Managing Director said…
“The hospitality industry is having a hard time recruiting staff at the moment, so anything we can do to make team members feel more valued and their jobs easier goes a long way towards keeping staff motivated and happy.
“Bella Bot is a great new addition to the team, making it possible for front of house staff to spend more time attending to the needs of our customers.
“Bella never tires, she just keeps on going, making the return journey between kitchen and tables, literally hundreds of times a day, so our people can focus on helping our customers have a great time”.
At TCB they recently took the bold decision to replace their traditional, eat as much as you like buffet style service, with a more sophisticated dining experience.
Paolo went on to say…
“During the first COVID lockdown, we had to make some big changes, with social distancing and restricted movement around the restaurant and we devised the ‘Table Buffet Service’, which many of our customers really liked.
“So we decided to embrace it and develop it even further to still be able to deliver an ‘eat as much as you like’ service but with a more sophisticated feel, very close to an a la carte service.
“And it’s really worked, ordering via our bespoke app, customers can relax at their table, enjoying time with their friends, while we do all the running around and now Bella has come to make it even easier for us”.
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