Co-op’s locale community at Maufant

By Dolores Cowburn

A MAUFANT store which closed amid a storm of local protest reopens today with new owners and a new name.

The former rStore is now the Co-operative Locale Maufant after the Co-op stepped in to keep it open. The village sub-post office it houses will also remain open.

The JEP reported earlier this month how pensioners had faced travelling miles when CI Newsagents, who owned the Maufant store, announced that they were selling it. They said that they would be closing the doors because business had dropped 40 per cent since the Five Oaks Checkers Xpress store opened.

However, the Channel Islands Co-operative Society stepped in after being contacted by concerned local residents and after St Saviour Deputy Roy Le Hérissier criticised the closure, saying that it would rip the heart out of the local community. The store closed on 6 July.

• Picture: Deputy Roy Le Hérissier with the Co-op’s retail controller, Colin MacLeod, the new store’s manager, Claire Sinden, and the society’s chief executive, Jim Hopley, at the store

Article posted on 22nd July, 2008 - 2.56pm

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