Popular footwear chain shoezone is set to open a store at The Rock Shopping Centre in Bury later this month.
The retailer is relocating from the Mill Gate to a bigger unit at The Rock, next to Primark, and will open on Saturday 20th May.
The full team will relocate to the store and create 1 new part-time job. The new, larger store, will stock more brands, increasing the amount of options for customers to choose from.
Anthony Smith, shoezone Chief Executive, said: “We’re delighted to be opening this relocated shoezone store in Bury. We’ll be selling our most popular core range of own-brand everyday footwear, alongside well-known branded shoes, making our entire retail collection easily accessible.”
The retailer is the latest of a number of brands to join the tenant mix at The Rock. The shopping and leisure destination has recently welcomed Vanilla, Skechers and Kaspa’s Desserts to its offering.
Arnold Wilcox-Wood, Centre Director at The Rock, said: “We are really looking forward to welcoming shoezone to The Rock. It’s a very popular chain and will be a great addition to the centre. We’re sure this new store will be a huge hit with our customers.”
shoezone offers low price and high quality footwear for the whole family. They operate from 340 stores and have approximately 2,550 employees across the UK.
Families enjoyed a day of truly British fun as they joined The Rock Shopping Centre in celebrating the Coronation of King Charles III.
The shopping and leisure destination held a day of free family fun on Bank Holiday Monday (8th May).
Visitors enjoyed traditional face painting, a treasure hunt around the centre and ceramic crown craft making.
The event was held in a marquee in front of The Range and also included royal stilt walkers and the king’s guards to oversee the activity.
Whilst the fun was free, donations in aid of The Rock’s partner charity were encouraged and £55 was raised for Jigsaw Bury.
Arnold Wilcox-Wood, Centre Director at The Rock, said: “We had a wonderful time celebrating this historic occasion with our customers, it was great to see so many families taking part in our treasure hunt around The Rock and those who completed the hunt were awarded with a handful of gold from the King’s treasury…of the chocolate variety! The crown craft station and face painting were busy for the whole day and our royal themed characters were hugely popular. Thank you to everyone who joined us.”
Children and parents visiting The Rock Shopping Centre have enjoyed bags of fun this Easter.
The shopping and leisure destination installed an Easter display featuring three giant shopping bags complete with bunny faces.
The installation, which is in situ until Wednesday (12th April) has proved to be a big hit with shoppers and families posing for photos.
And on two dates, Wednesday 5th April and Saturday 8th April there was a special surprise as the large blue bunny bag came to life.
Children were able to experience the magic of chatting to and engaging with the bunny bag for a chance to win a prize.
Over the two days, hundreds of prizes were given out, including lots of chocolate treats as well as vouchers to spend at The Rock’s retailers.
Arnold Wilcox-Wood, Centre Director at The Rock, said: “We’ve had great fun this Easter and the installation has been very popular with children and adults alike. On our event days it was wonderful to see children get into the spirit of things – we saw lots of impressive bunny hops and heard lots of Easter jokes.
“If you’ve stopped by for a photo in front of the installation, we’d love to see it. You can share them with us on social media by tagging @therockbury.”
Hundreds of shoppers were surprised with a free bunch of flowers whilst visiting The Rock Shopping Centre ahead of Mother’s Day.
Over three days we handed out 900 bunches of tulips as part of our campaign celebrating Bury’s blooming marvellous mums.
Our floral-themed event team hosted a pop-up flower cart and gave out flowers as a way to thank mums for all they do.
The flowers were handed out to shoppers including mums, grandmas, daughters, aunties and children on Thursday 16th, Friday 17th and Saturday 18th March.
Arnold Wilcox-Wood, Centre Director at The Rock, said: “This Mother’s Day we wanted to do something special to celebrate mums and we were so pleased to be able to surprise so many of our shoppers over the three day period, it has been lovely to make so many people smile with such a small gesture. We hope it went a long way to brightening their day.”
Popular shoe brand Skechers has now opened its doors at The Rock.
The retailer officially opened on Thursday (16th March) and has created 15 new jobs in the town.
The new ‘concept store’ stocks 700 lines, including footwear for all the family, and has taken over the former Dorothy Perkins unit at The Rock.
Arnold Wilcox-Wood, Centre Director at The Rock, said: “We are thrilled to see Skechers officially open at The Rock and we’re sure it’ll be a great hit with our customers. The brand is a great addition to our tenant mix and we wish the team every success.”
Skechers stocks a wide selection of footwear and apparel for men, women, and children. The brand offers casual, athletic and fashion trends as well as sandals and boots.
Shoppers with a sweet tooth are in for a treat following the official opening of Kaspa’s Desserts in Bury.
The dessert house has now opened at The Rock Shopping Centre and offers a range of delicious desserts.
The brand officially opened on Friday 3rd March and can be found in the block which is also home to Racconto Lounge and Bob and Bert’s.
The eatery has created 25 jobs in the town and sells a huge variety of hot and cold desserts. Their emphasis is on high quality desserts, good customer service and an amazing dining experience for their customers.
A spokesman for Kaspa’s Desserts said: “We are so excited to be open in Bury and we can’t wait to welcome our new customers and for them to try out our delicious desserts. Our menu includes a huge selection of ice creams, gelato, crepes, waffles, milkshakes, smoothies and sundaes.”
The retailer is the latest of a number of brands to join the tenant mix since the turn of the year. Vanilla official opened last week and Skechers is set to open later in March.
Arnold Wilcox-Wood, Centre Director at The Rock, said: “It’s a really exciting time for The Rock Shopping Centre, with a host of new store openings and Kaspa’s is a great addition to our restaurant and leisure offering. We’re sure it will be a big hit with our visitors.”
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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