New Coles store aims to please Jewish community

The new Coles Express store in Ripponlea is the first of its kind to offer specialty kosher food for the Jewish community. Find out exactly what’s on offer here.

The new Coles Express store in Ripponlea is the first of its kind to offer specialty kosher food for the Jewish community. Yudi (5), dad Gedaliah holding Yair (2), mum Esti Levin and Miri (6). Picture: Josie Hayden

The new Coles Express store in Ripponlea is the first of its kind to offer specialty kosher food for the Jewish community.

Opened this month, the convenience store is almost three times the size of an average Coles Express and will include items from several local suppliers, including Solomans meat, TRIALia and Benedickt kosher products, Savion bakery products, Tempo milk range and Yumi’s dips and chilled products.

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It’s the first Coles supermarket to include kosher sushi and convenience meals, plus a kosher coffee machine.

Store Manager Daniel Calleja said the specialty items were all about meeting the needs of nearby residents.

“The store will have an expansive kosher range as well as everyday items our customers love such as bread, milk, sushi and sandwiches, fresh fruit and vegetables and household essentials,” Mr Calleja said.

Esti Levin in the new store. Picture: Josie Hayden

Coles spokeswoman Meg Rayner said the company wanted people to have access to products that reflected their cultural tastes — including crocodile tail in Western Australia, kosher food in Jewish communities, and baked in-store flatbreads for Middle Eastern and Asian communities.

Open at 168 Hotham Rd, Ripponlea, from 6am to midnight.

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