Owners Moe Singh Panesar and Nikki Kaur Panesar chat at the grand opening of the newly refurbished Premier Halton Convenience Store and Post Office
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00:00 Today we've got our grand opening to let the customers know that we've refurbished our
00:07 building and that we've merged with the convenience store which is obviously with the premier
00:12 convenience store and obviously we've got the post office and obviously we updated the
00:16 post office as well as well as the convenience store.
00:21 Tell me a little bit about this convenience store.
00:26 We actually took over the business in February 2020 and our main aim was to modernise the
00:33 post office and also bring a convenience store to the community.
00:41 During this time we came across Covid so that caused quite a bit of delay.
00:47 However when we did the refurbishments of the building it took us, we had to close down
00:51 for about four weeks which had a bit of an effect on the local residents because obviously
00:56 it was an inconvenience and they had to go up further afield to get the services that
01:00 they could have got over here which is like your banking, postal services, travel money,
01:08 all the essentials even paying bills.
01:10 But for this area it is very important because the post office has been here and it's been
01:14 established for nearly over 40 years and it's the heart of the community.
01:22 They need the post office here, it's better for the elderly as well and you know people
01:27 who have got disabilities they can all come to the post office and don't have to go too
01:31 far.
01:32 A lot of banks are closed as well so it's convenient for them.