SHOPPERS can now get their cars valeted at a Hereford supermarket as a new centre opens, creating jobs.

The new valet centre at Morrisons, in Station Approach, is in the main car park, with 16 car parking spaces lost.

Hereford Times: The pod offers a range of services.The pod offers a range of services.

The pod is a single-storey unit with an open-air wash bay and a double canopy covered prep area.

Hereford Times: Shoppers can access the pod via the supermarket car park. Shoppers can access the pod via the supermarket car park.

Services offered range from a basic wash to upholstery and seat cleaning.

New jobs have been created, which consultants told Herefordshire Council planners was a benefit to the local community.

Hereford Times: The pod has replaced some of the car park.The pod has replaced some of the car park.

The national supermarket chain has also let the NHS turns its garden centre into a walk-in coronavirus vaccination centre this week.

It is one of a number of different 'pop-up' locations to be used by the NHS, with Asda, in Belmont Road, and Hereford Livestock Market, in Roman Road, other places previously used by vaccinators.