The Lulu Group has strengthened its ambitious expansion plans in the UAE and opened two new concept stores that offer customers a fresh approach to shopping across the retail sector.
Ahmed Omran Al Ameri and Dubai Lulu Express were opened on July 25 by Abdullah Saeed Salem AL Zaabbi, Director of Dubai’s External Branch.
The single-level, compact LuLu Express store brings shoppers all the ease and convenience of with an extensive range of fresh fruits and vegetables, meat and seafood sections, grocery, bakery, hot food, deli, frozen foods, health and beauty, and household goods. This medium-scale store represents the LuLu Group’s swift adaptation to the latest shopping preferences of customers, many of whom love to shop in smaller quantities nearer to their home or office to avoid traffic and crowded big hypermarkets while still enjoying the price advantage of big format stores.
The LuLu Logistics and Wholesale Center in Al Noud, Al Ain caters to bulk shoppers, as well as businesses looking for top quality at bulk prices. It is an innovation of the LuLu Group on the lines of global bargain brands and is expected to change the retail scene in the UAE.
Yusuff Ali M A, chairman and managing director at LuLu Group, said: “The LuLu Group has emerged from the recent lull of the pandemic years with a strong and vigorous global growth blueprint. We believe that leading corporate brands like ours must show the way in the economic resurgence taking place today. Both these stores, which address completely different shopping needs, are signal that we believe in listening to our customers and staying flexible to accommodate their changing shopping preferences.”
“Though hypermarkets continue to be our primary focus area, we also intend to open more of these new-format stores to cater to the growing demand of B2B customers and of suburbs and gated communities. The strong brand loyalty and location advantage will surely help these new concept stores become a dominant player in this sector also,” he added.
Both formats of stores complement the group’s ambitious global expansion drive, which is led by its flagship hypermarkets and state-of-the-art supply chain and logistics operations and shopping malls, and at the same time, lead the retail sector through their innovation and responsiveness to customer requirements.
The group has built a global retail empire of hypermarkets, supermarkets, malls, express stores, supply chain offices and warehouses through an immersive shopping approach to retail with hands-on, hand-picked shopping and late-night sales, which gained customer loyalty a classic approach to central business.