Overview
- Morrisons began consultations with staff on Thursday after an internal review identified roughly 100 company‑owned Morrisons Daily shops as loss‑making and in line for closure over the coming months.
- The proposed closures place hundreds of store roles at risk and the company says it will try to redeploy affected colleagues into supermarkets, logistics or manufacturing where vacancies exist.
- Every store named in the review was originally part of McColl’s, bought by Morrisons in 2022, and the retailer says repeated remedial action failed to restore their profitability.
- Morrisons attributes the worsened trading at these small stores to recent policy‑driven cost rises, citing higher employer National Insurance, increases in the National Living Wage and new packaging recycling charges.
- The cuts form part of wider 2026 cost‑saving steps as Morrisons, now private‑equity owned and carrying heavy interest costs, shifts to a strategy of opening many more franchise‑run Daily stores while shrinking its company‑owned estate.