Greggs has launched its first ever Eco Drive-Thru at Easton Lane, Winchester in its latest ‘doing good’ initiative. The shop will test new in-store initiatives which aim to reduce the environmental impact of shop operations, with successful features to be rolled out across the wider estate.
This new site builds on the success of Greggs’ first Eco-Shop which opened in Northampton in 2022, acting as a test bed for new sustainability initiatives.
As set out in the Greggs Pledge, the company set a target for more than a quarter of its shops to feature elements from its first Eco-Shop by the end of 2025, and Greggs exceeded this target a year early, with more than 700 shops (27% of its estate) encompassing elements from its first Eco-Shop by the end of 2024.
The drive-thru is fitted with a range of new sustainability initiatives focused on reducing waste, using less water and lowering energy usage, including: solar panels, sun tubes, low energy light fittings and daylight harvesting technology, rainwater harvesting, heat pump air conditioning and overdoor heater systems.
Property Director Tony Rowson commented on the opening of the new shop: “We’re so excited to have launched our first ever Eco Drive-Thru. As a leader in our sector, we take our responsibility to do right by the planet and communities we operate in seriously, and we do all that we can to make changes for the better.
“I’m proud of what we’ve achieved with our first Eco-Shop, ‘our shop of the future’, which means we can now test further materials and initiatives in this new unit, bringing us another step closer to reaching our Net Zero carbon objective.”
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