{"id":16865,"date":"2022-03-02T19:46:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T19:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/?p=16865"},"modified":"2022-06-12T19:41:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T19:41:55","slug":"lulu-express-opens-eco-friendly-store-in-neom-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2022\/03\/02\/lulu-express-opens-eco-friendly-store-in-neom-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lulu Express opens eco-friendly store in NEOM, Saudi Arabia\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lulu Hypermarket has opened its first eco-friendly Express branch in NEOM, Saudi Arabia.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The store \u2013 selling a wide variety of groceries and household products, with an emphasis on quick service \u2013 was inaugurated on February 28.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As part of the brand\u2019s commitment to sustainability, the 8,500-square-foot store is fully powered by renewable solar energy and all transactions are paperless.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The branch even has special \u2018green\u2019 lanes, giving priority to shoppers at checkout who bring their own-reusable, non-plastic bags.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lulu Group head MA Yussuff Ali said: \u201cFirst of all, I want to thank the leadership of this country for giving us this opportunity to set up the first Lulu store in the futuristic NEOM City. We are very excited by the immense prospects that are opening up in the Kingdom and we are firm in our commitment of further investments and expansion in the Kingdom.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NEOM, a smart and eco-friendly city in north-eastern Saudi Arabia, will operate entirely on renewable energy resources and be free of cars and carbon emissions when fully complete.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Shehim Mohammed, director of Lulu Hypermarkets in Saudi Arabia, said: \u201cWe are excited to be a part of the NEOM project \u2013 it is a futuristic steppingstone and Lulu sees this as the start of a new retail experience in Saudi Arabia.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThough hypermarkets continue to be our primary focus area, we also intend to open more of these express stores to cater to the growing demand of suburbs and gated communities. The strong brand loyalty and location advantage will surely help Lulu Express become a dominant player in this sector also.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEOM receives sustainable store from retail giant. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":17274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1323,1],"tags":[4014,4017,2683,2127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17097,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16865\/revisions\/17097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}