The supermarket chain’s state renewal manager Steve Smith said his team transformed the store while training local team members on new processes. 

“Over the last 10 months my team spent anywhere up to three weeks at a time in Mount Isa,” he said. 

They would continue to have a presence in the Mount Isa store in the next few months due to additional volumes of produce. 

No further renovations were planned, Mr Smith said. 

Local staff also had to be trained with new techniques involving the storage of produce on ice, and for those in the bakery and deli. 

They were trained how to produce them and how to sell them to customers. 

Mr Smith attended the Mount Isa Village official opening yesterday. 

Other Coles representatives in property, construction and marketing fields based in Brisbane also attended the ceremony. 

Employees were in the store at 2am that day to ensure everything was up to standard before the opening, Mr Smith said. 

Coles regional manager for Far North Queensland Richard Kilpatrick said the new look design of the Mount Isa store was part of $30 million the supermarket chain had invested in far north Queensland. 

Mr Kilpatrick said Coles would continue to invest in the region.

Coles was focusing its relationship with indigenous communities and was a reason why indigenous-themed artwork designed by Mount Isa artist Sheree Blackley decorated the complex, he said.