{"id":26822,"date":"2017-12-08T16:38:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T16:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=26822"},"modified":"2017-12-08T16:38:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T16:38:38","slug":"the-lidl-of-the-future-arrives-in-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/the-lidl-of-the-future-arrives-in-cardiff","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Lidl of the Future&#8221; arrives in Cardiff."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shopper in Cardiff have been looking for bargains at the city&#8217;s newest supermarket, which has been called the Lidl of the Future.<\/p>\n<p>Situated in Colchester Avenue, Penylan, the former store has been replaced with a bigger shop that features\u00a0a bakery, longer tills, customer toilets, and baby changing facilities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26915\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-26915 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/2-1-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26915 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/2-1-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> More checkouts are available.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26906\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-26906 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/1-2-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26906 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/1-2-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> The new room can meet the demand of parents.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI saw that the new room for baby changing by the door which is great, my baby just 8 months and I believe that not only me but every mother who have babies may feel easier than before, the design is very thoughtful for customers,\u201d said Megan Jenkins, one of the first customers to try out the new store.<\/p>\n<p>Also the bakery is quite popular in the new store, \u201cthere a new-added bakery which is very good, I can buy some bread for my family as our breakfast sometimes. My child like the croissant most,\u201d said Sheena.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26925\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-26925 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/3-1-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26925 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/3-1-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> There is a full range of bakery in the new store.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The new building is the company&#8217;s design of &#8220;Lidl of the Future&#8221;. The all-glass fa\u00e7ade maximizes natural daylight entering the building while the sensor-controlled exterior sunshade automatically operates to reduce the impact of unwanted heat gained by solar energy. This advanced glass fa\u00e7ade design was first opened in the United Kingdom and is an integral part of the Lidl expansion plan. The LOF (Lidl of the Future) would develop some of applications in the same way.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26933\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26933\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-26933 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/4-1-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26933\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26933 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/4-1-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> Beautiful and well-designed out-looking of the new building.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With plans approved by Cardiff City Council in February, the number of parking spaces increased by 17 and grocery sales by 25%.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26938\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26938\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-26938 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/5-1-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26938 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/12\/5-1-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> The trolley area stand in the middle of the road.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But it still occurred some problems, \u201cthe trolley is a little bit awkward, everyone could see that when a car coming from outside, they have to cross the trolley area, so I think it is not that convenient,\u201d said Dina, \u201cBecause my husband is disabled so the car parking is very important for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Although it have caused some problems, the parking brings 20 jobs as well. \u201cIt is great for us to be able to create more jobs and investment opportunities in the area and we can\u2019t wait to start serving our multi-award winning products to the local community once again,\u201d said Lidl UK\u2019s regional head of property Paul Hebblethwaite.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Lidl in Penylan was reopened several days ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":26956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,17],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-26822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-culture","category-global-city","category-sport-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The &quot;Lidl of the Future&quot; 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