A £4 million revamp of Sains-bury's Bridgemead store in Swin-don is set to be unveiled to the public in 10 days time.

The store will shut its doors on Saturday for a week while building work is completed and re-open at 9am on Saturday, December 2.

The new building, which will be extended by 36 per cent, will feature 4,000 new products, new counters and a new restaurant and will open 24 hours a day.

It is the second supermarket in Swindon to give itself a facelift in the run-up to the opening of Walmart's 150,000sq ft store in the new North District Centre.

Last month, Tesco extended its shopfloor space from 48,000 to 65,000sq ft at a cost of £6.5 million, making it the largest branch in the South West and creating an extra 70 jobs.

The Sainsbury's revamp has generated between 80 and 100 new jobs, most of which have been filled over the last 12 weeks through open evenings at the store.

Work has been going on since July and some of it has already been completed.

The supermarket already boasts new checkouts and food-to-go and fresh meat counters.

A new petrol station with six pumps and a bigger shop opens on Friday.

From this weekend the rest of the store will be gutted and a salad kitchen, bakery and restaurant built.

In the extension, Adams baby and child clothing and Early Learning toys will be sold along with electrical goods like CDs, and large electrical goods, such as TVs, and glassware and cookware in a new home shopping section.

Duty manager Jason Babbage believes customers will be amazed at the improvements.

"They won't have seen anything like it. It will be much bigger and better," he said.

"This is the final phase now. It has taken a long time and we appreciate it has been causing an inconvenience for our customers because we have felt it ourselves but they have been very supportive and it is all to their benefit.

"Sainsbury's has seen an opportunity in Swindon because of the growth in the employment market.

"Of our three stores in the town, the one in Stratton has had a lot of money pumped into it for refurbishment and there are plans afoot for the town centre store.

"Bridgemead had been there for 10 years in desperate need of help. We want to show customers what we can do and that this is a new us."