Inside Marks and Spencer's new Dundee store complete with food hall and café

Marks and Spencer has opened its newest site in Dundee amid a £30m investment into the chain’s Scottish stores.

The 48,000 sq ft shop, which features a food hall, café and clothing and beauty departments, opened on Tuesday, July 16.

Located at Gallagher Retail Park, the opening of the new store was marked by a pipe band and a giant inflatable Percy Pig outside the shop front.

The new Dundee outlet is part of a quintet of new stores in Scotland as announced in January, with shops in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Largs and Linlithgow also set to open.

M&S said it is aiming to create over 6,500 jobs with the new stores, with £15m earmarked to double the size of Aberdeen’s existing Union Square outlet as a flagship store.

It follows the announcement that the St Nicholas Street store in the city will close next year after 80 years of serving customers.

M&S new store in Dundee Marks and Spencer

Sacha Berendji, M&S operations director said: “This is our biggest ever investment in Scotland, putting £30m into transforming the shopping experience for customers in Aberdeen, Largs, Dundee and Linlithgow – bringing new jobs across the country with bigger, better, fresh-market style foodhalls and new opportunities for Scottish shoppers to access our best-ever, most inspiringly presented clothing, home and beauty range.

“Our investment in Scotland goes beyond new stores with M&S sourcing more Scottish produce than ever before, through strong partnerships with local producers.

“Around 2,500 Scottish farms, sea farms and fisheries supply us with great quality products, many supplied beyond Scotland to M&S stores across the UK.

“Our commitment to Scotland has never been stronger.”