DISCOUNT store Shiploads has wasted no time in moving into the vacuum left by the recent closure of the Huonville Chickenfeed store.
Managing director Ashley Wilson said the chain's fifth store would create 25 permanent and casual jobs by late November.
He said the recently closed Chickenfeed store in Huonville had created an opportunity to open in an area needing employment opportunities and true discount retailing.
"We have been looking to open in the Huon for some months after demand from customers shopping at other Shiploads stores," he said.
"The opportunity to open a store earlier than planned means that Huon customers will have a local discount store to serve their needs before Christmas."
Mr Wilson said the store was about to undergo renovations.
"The shop will carry the same range as its sister store in Kingston," he said.
The 25 new jobs would take to 200 the number employed at the "extreme value discount chain" with other stores at Cambridge, Kingston, Bridgewater and Glenorchy.
Mr Wilson, a former senior executive at Chickenfeed, has built up Shiploads in the past three years and plans stores in Devonport and Launceston. Shiploads was also examining other opportunities across the state.
Rival Chickenfeed has closed eight stores in recent months and parent company Retail Adventures lost $35 million in 2011-12.
A number of the group's Tasmanian stores are losing money and Retail Adventures has a number of disputes with landlords from Queensland to Victoria.
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