Jan 23, 2020 | News, Retailing
In a major shake-up, Morrisons is scrapping 3,000 management roles while also creating 7,000 shop floor jobs, meaning a net gain of 4,000 positions. As part of the restructuring, the supermarket says the new jobs will be hourly-paid roles and will be distributed...
Jan 7, 2020 | News, Retailing
Morrisons has experienced a 2.8% drop in like for like sales over the 22 weeks to January 5th, latest figures have shown. Group like for like sales fell by 1.7% over the 22 week period, a figure which rises to 2.8% when including fuel. Despite a promising start to the...
Jan 7, 2020 | News, Retailing
Despite a record year through the tills over Christmas, 2019 saw the slowest rate of growth across December since 2015, according to the latest grocery figures released by Kantar. Sales at Sainsbury’s fell by 0.7%, although its market share held relatively firm...
Nov 12, 2019 | News, Retailing
The latest grocery market share figures from Kantar show that year-on-year supermarket sales grew by 1.0% over the past 12 weeks. The increase is slightly behind the equivalent rate last month, against a backdrop of political uncertainty and a persistently wet...
Aug 23, 2019 | News, Retailing
Morrisons is to close four of its supermarkets with the potential loss of 400 jobs. The stores in question are in Swindon town centre, Ince, Crawley and Shirley in the West Midlands. A spokesperson for Morrisons said: “We will now be going through a consultation...
