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Greggs launches first Eco drive-thru
Greggs has launched its first ever Eco Drive-Thru at Easton Lane, Winchester in our latest ‘doing good’ initiative. The shop will test new in-store initiatives which aim to reduce the environmental impact our shop operations have, with successful features to be rolled out across our wider estate.
This new site builds on the success of our first Eco-Shop which opened in Northampton in 2022, acting as a test bed for new sustainability initiatives.
As set out in our Greggs Pledge, we set a target for more than a quarter of our shops to feature elements from our first Eco-Shop by the end of 2025, and we exceeded this target a year early, with more than 700 shops (27% of our estate) encompassing elements from its first Eco-Shop by the end of 2024.
The drive-thru is fitted with a range of new sustainability initiatives focused on reducing waste, using less water and lowering energy usage, including:
· Solar panels to power all of its in store digital signage throughout the year
· Sun tubes to direct sunlight from the roof, into the store to reduce artificial lighting
· Low energy light fittings and daylight harvesting technology, with a wireless control system which adapts to lighting in real time through smart sensor nodes
· Rainwater harvesting unit which has capacity of 3,000 litres, expected to reduce water usage by around 13%
· Heat pump air conditioning and overdoor heater systems which work in conjunction to balance air temperature, as well as a heat recovery system which utilises warm air from refrigeration extraction to warm the air, and a heat pump system that uses surrounding air to warm water
Tony Rowson, our Property Director, commented on the opening of the new shop:
“We’re so excited to have launched our first ever Eco Drive-Thru. As a leader in our sector, we take our responsibility to do right by the planet and communities we operate in seriously, and we do all that we can to make changes for the better.
“I’m proud of what we’ve achieved with our first Eco-Shop, ‘our shop of the future’, which means we can now test further materials and initiatives in this new unit, bringing us another step closer to reaching our Net Zero carbon objective.”
You can read more about our Eco-Shops and in-store sustainability initiatives in our latest Greggs Pledge report here: https://corporate.greggs.co.uk/doing-good