The new Asda Express store on Stratford Road has officially opened this week and will be open 24 hours per day.

The supermarket giant has this week opened 24 new express stores across the UK.

Asda's new store in Warwick - which officially opened on Tuesday (November 7) - has taken over the shop at the Esso petrol station, and has also applied for a new alcohol licence.

All the new shop openings this week are at former Co-op and former EG Group sites.

The stores will stock up to 3,000 branded and own-label products to suit a broad range of customer needs including 'top up' shops for essential items such as milk and bread, grabbing lunch on the go or cooking dinner from scratch.

The move comes as Asda announced last week that it had completed the acquisition of EG Group's UK business meaning the retailer will take on hundreds of new convenience stores.

The new stores will stock thousands of Asda-own products (image via Asda)

The deal, which was first announced in May, will see 356 EG Group sites - which are all modern convenience stores on petrol filling stations – become Asda Express stores.

 Andy Perry MD of Convenience at Asda said: "This conversion programme is an incredibly exciting moment for our business and accelerates our presence in the fast-growing convenience market.

"We look forward to bringing Asda's great value in fuel and groceries to many more communities across the UK and to welcoming over 2,000 former Co-op colleagues to the Asda family in the coming months."

In addition to the recently converted Asda Express stores, the supermarket currently has three stand-alone Express stores in Sutton Coldfield, London (Tottenham Hale) and Calne.

The news comes as Warwick District Council considers plans for the whole Stratford Road petrol station to be flattened and completely rebuilt.