7:30pm Tuesday 31st August 2010
EAGER customers queued for six hours to take advantage of special offers at the grand opening of a Worcester store.
The Sony Centre has moved from 9 The Shambles in the city centre to a bigger premises opposite at 43-45 The Shambles.
Kevin Kirkland, store manager, said about 100 people were queuing along the road when he arrived to open the doors at 10.30am on Monday.
He said: “It was like Wimbledon.
“They had chairs and some of them had been there for up to six hours by the time we opened up.”
Mr Kirkland said customers were keen to take advantage of offers, which included Blu-ray players for £50 and laptops being sold with £1,000 off.
He said of the revamp: “We’ve got the latest store design, more space, room and storage.
“It’s just down to the success of our previous store that we can make things much bigger and better.”
Worcester mayor Mike Layland officially opened the shop.
The Sony Centre is the trading name of William Robb, a family company from Cheltenham that was transformed under the new Sony Centre-style in April 1990 by current managing director Paul Watkins and his wife Candy in conjunction with Sony UK.
They operate from six locations in the West Midlands.
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