B&M is continuing its rapid expansion with eight new stores set to open by the end of 2026.
The discount retailer already operates 799 stores across the UK, which welcome more than four million customers each week.
The major retail chain has opened several new sites already in 2026, most recently in Carmarthen, Plymstock, and Waltham Cross.
Full list of 8 new B&M stores opening before the end of 2026
B&M is set to open another eight new stores in the coming months:
110 former Whitbread restaurants set to reopen
Meanwhile, around 110 former Whitbread pubs and restaurants are set to reopen under new ownership.
Whitbread closed all of its 261 standalone branded restaurants last month as part of a five-year strategy to save £250 million, resulting in the loss of around 3,800 jobs.
The closures affected five Whitbread brands:
Now, Queensway Inns has taken over 53 sites and plans to relaunch them as “value pubs”.
Common Table Group, a newly established hospitality firm, also announced earlier this week that it had acquired 57 sites, including one Premier Inn hotel.
The new sites are expected to create more than 1,400 jobs.
The first lot of former Whitbread pubs and restaurants set to reopen as new Queensway Inns and Common Table sites, according to The Sun, are:
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