Co-operative opens play facilities at Grand Marché St Peter

Tuesday 27 October 2015

Shoppers in the west of the Island will now be able to make use of children’s play facilities at Grand Marché in St Peter as The Channel Islands Cooperative Society has opened a second Top Stop, an interactive learning play area.

The purpose-built play area launched on Friday and is open to children aged from two to six years old.

Parents will be able to leave their children under the supervision of qualified child care and first aid supervisors whilst they shop. The play area gives children the opportunity to play with a wide range of art and craft activity, extend their imagination through dressing up and role play or to play construction games with lego, stickle bricks and K’nex.

The Channel Islands Co-operative Society’s Chief Operating Officer, Mark Cox, said: "The Top Stop in Grand Marché St Helier has proven to be extremely popular, and we are pleased we can now offer families in the west of the Island the same facilities. Our aim is to make the shopping experience as enjoyable and easy as possible for families."

The Top Stop is free to customers who spend more than £50 in a single transaction in Grand Marché St Peter on that day. Otherwise the fee will be £3.50 for one hour or £6 for up to two hours.

The team at the Tot Stop in Grand Marché St Helier won the Best Team category and the overall award at the Customer Service Awards in 2013, and were finalists in the same category in 2014 and 2015.