A discount Greggs has opened in Leeds with half price sandwiches, donuts and sausage rolls

A new discount Greggs has opened in Leeds selling sandwiches and boxes of donuts and yum yums for just 55p.

As one of the high street bakery’s new Greggs Outlets stores, it is offering Leeds locals a saving of more than 50% on baked goodies – all by taking food that hasn’t been sold in its other stores and reselling it at a hefty discount.

Designed to provide ‘affordable food in areas of social deprivation’, a share of profits from the new store is also being given to local community organisations such as soup kitchens and food banks.

Inside, unlike a Greggs bakery there is no hot food counter. Instead, sweet and savoury treats like meat and vegan sausage rolls, packs of ‘bakes’, sandwiches and baguettes are lined up on shelves alongside boxes of yum yums and donuts.

Depending on what you choose to buy customers can save over 70% on what they’d paid in a typical high street Greggs bakery store.

In the new Greggs Outlet, recently opened on Chapeltown Road, customers can buy meat and vegan sausage rolls in packs of four for just £1.55 – offering a saving of 57%.

Within two years, the company plans to have opened 50 Greggs Outlets across the country in areas hit hardest by the cost of living crisis.

The key to getting these savings, we understand, is to turn up early. The Greggs Outlet store is only stocked once a day, and once it runs out there won’t be any more until the following morning.

Roisin Currie, CEO at Greggs said: “Our new outlet shop in Leeds reaffirms the commitments set out in the Greggs Pledge to reduce waste and support communities. By selling surplus products at great value and reinvesting a portion of the profits through The Greggs Foundation, we can help families and local charities across the country.”

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