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More for our customers With a fresh look and a new name, our Morrisons More card really does give our customers more. There are more ways to earn Morrisons More Points, and it’s teamwork that’s made it happen. Read more on p10 & 11
Listening to you The results of the Your Say survey are in, and you’ve told us that we’re getting better at working as a team. You’re also feeling more involved, and you’d like us to create more opportunities to have your say. Read more on p8
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Training to be the best We’re launching our biggest-ever training programme. It’ll give store managers the chance to learn new skills, strengthen existing ones and understand how we can deliver our five ways of working. Read more on p12 & 13
Ramadan and Eid
Getting stores ready for Ramadan and Eid takes time and teamwork. Hundreds of people from across the business work together to get the right products in the right stores at the right time, and all at competitive prices. Read more on p6
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Based in the heart of Hong Kong, our small Global Sourcing team plays a big role. They source products from China, India and other countries, research new trends and make sure quality, safety and ethical standards are high. Read more on p14 & 15
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Teamwork – an introduction from Gary This month’s Fresh News focuses on teamwork, one of our five ways of working. Teamwork is something that’s really important to me – working together we will achieve more. reat teamwork is about all of us, all with our own strengths, working towards the same goal. We all need to understand what our job is, and how it fits with the jobs that our colleagues do. And it’s about great people, working together to be better shopkeepers. That’s how we’ll succeed in giving our customers the best possible experience – making Morrisons a great place to work and shop.
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This is teamwork It starts with our farmers and buyers, selecting the best cuts of meat from the best farms. In our Manufacturing sites
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we process and package it. We pick it, move it and get it to stores through our Logistics and Supply Chain. At Hilmore we price the meat and we advertise it to our customers. In store, our craft-skilled Butchers prepare the meat and offer expert advice to our customers. Through teamwork we serve our customers with the best British meat in the market. This is how together, we make Morrisons. This is just one of thousands of examples of teamwork across our business every
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The latest news from right around our business.
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Bring out the bunting and fly the flags as we make it a summer of celebration in store. A Market Street party
It’s a massive summer for celebrations, and it’s teamwork that will make it great for our customers. To mark the Queen’s official 90th birthday on Saturday 11 June, we’ve got a Market Street party going on. Among our fabulous fresh food and celebration dishes you’ll find tasty new products such as our Queen’s Birthday Pork Pie and our Corgi Cake. Our whole quiches and 1kg pizza slabs are perfect for sharing along with our delicious sandwich platters. To complete the party, our special 10-inch Elizabeth sponge rivals any Victoria sponge. Follow the red, white and blue to the seasonal aisle where you can pick up flags, hats, bunting, balloons, and almost everything else for a sensational street party.
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Later this month tennis takes centre stage – and court – with Wimbledon, and we’ve got some great offers for our customers. We’re making it easy for customers by selling pre-prepared Pimm’s Packs with the fruit you need ready to pop into a jug of Pimm’s and lemonade for that perfect summer drink. “From the people making and delivering our food, to those giving great customer service in our stores, we all need to work together to make this summer a great experience for our customers,” says Amy Banks, Marketing Manager.
Bill Northcott, Totnes Bill found and returned a customer’s car keys. He then helped her to load her shopping. Bill also stopped to help another customer, who was blind, along the way.
Sporting celebrations
There’s a double se rving of sport in June. Th e Queen’s birthday weekend also sees the Euro 2016 football championship kick off. Adding to the party mood, we’ve eye-ca tching front-of-store prom otions on beers, wines and spirits.
Dad’s special day Father’s Day is Sunday 19 June. As well as great gifts, we’ve some amazing fresh food deals too. If your dad is up for the challenge, he’ll love the mighty Tomahawk steak from our butcher counter. It’s just £15 and our butchers will even tell you how best to prepare and cook it.
Samantha Maddocks and Balvinder Devi, Solihull Samantha and Balvinder took to the streets of Birmingham to help feed homeless people. Their Colleague Facebook post received 600 likes.
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Hilmore! Happy birthday
Hilmore House celebrated its 10th birthday last month with a special event for the colleagues who work there.
people attended the event that was hosted
1,600 by Group People Director Clare Grainger.
Clare also talked about the Your Say survey results which you can read more about on p8. The cake-cutting honours went to Al Spittal, who celebrated 30 years with Morrisons in May. Al is one of the hundreds of people who’ve worked at Hilmore since it opened. After work, colleagues were invited to a celebratory barbecue and Yorkshire tapas, featuring our great fresh food.
Four decades at Cutler Heights arlier this year, Cutler Heights E turned 40. The Bradford-based site has seen a great deal of change since it opened as a produce packing house in 1976. Over the years investment in new machinery and better technology means Cutler Heights is now producing more than 2.5 million packs of fruit and vegetables per week.
“When Cutler Heights opened it was one of the first steps we took to becoming a vertically integrated retailer. This means that we have greater control over the supply of our food,” says Cara Adams, Site Manager, Cutler Heights. The site’s longest -serving colleague, Jean Heaton, has been at the site for 38 years. Jean and her colleagues celebrated the milestone with a special Family Day.
Steve Embrey, Clacton Waterglade A child injured himself in store. As his shift had finished, Steve drove the grateful family, who were on holiday, to hospital and later back to their lodgings.
Cutler Heights in the early days
Trudi Page, Pinchbeck A customer put petrol instead of diesel into her car. Trudi helped out by putting the customer’s shopping in the fridge and taking her to the customer café to wait for assistance.
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teamwork Muslims throughout the world will observe Ramadan this month and celebrate Eid early in July. Here’s how teamwork helps to make it happen in stores for customers and colleagues.
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etting stores ready for Ramadan and Right for customers Depending on the local community, Ramadan G Eid takes nearly a year. People from lots of departments across the business and Eid are bigger for some stores than others. are involved, as Noor Ali, Category Manager, “It all comes down to knowing our customers World Foods, explains: “Ramadan is a very religious and finding local solutions,” says Noor. month for Muslims, and Eid, which celebrates Pulling together the end of Ramadan, is a huge event. It can be tough going when Ramadan falls That’s why we need to in the summer months, as daylight hours are get things right for customers, long and Muslims fast from daybreak and why to sunset. That’s where teamwork 2 £5we start in stores and sites comes in. planning Ramadan Mubarak “It might mean that shifts and hours have months out. 50p £1 to change during Ramadan. Working with “Customers £3 department managers and shift supervisors, 2 £8 often stock up on traditional our people managers make sure that staples such as£1dates, rice £ 3 we can accommodate everyone’s needs and flour. To attract people £5 during this time, without affecting £8 into our stores, we need the business,” says Noor. good availability on the Ramadan Depending on the sighting of the full moon, brands they want to buy, Ramadan starts around 7 June, with Eid at great value prices,” expected to fall on 6 July. says Noor.
asingstoke’s Lin B Lisle-Fenwick was featured across TV, papers and social media last month because of the way she put customers first at the checkout. When two children, who are both registered blind and autistic, got upset at the checkouts, Lin invited the elder to come up and help scan the shopping. The young girl really enjoyed it and the situation calmed down. Their mother, Amanda Wilkins, posted the story and a picture on Facebook, thanking Lin for her kindness and for making ‘a massive difference’. The story has received more than 500,000 likes and over 100,000 shares, and has been covered by The Telegraph and ITV News.
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When the computer system went down across the company, Wing came up with a solution that allowed the site to complete transactions using the new warehouse system and carry on working.
Jonathan Daulby, Worsley In a great show of teamwork, Jonathan stayed behind after his shift to make sure that a repair was made and the production line was up and running as quickly as possible.
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ur latest Morrisons Makes it TV advert is all about the 200 new gluten-, wheat- and milk-free products in our Free From range. It shows how we make it better for customers who have to, or choose to, follow a diet free from ingredients including wheat and dairy. Stefanie Downey, Free From Buyer, says: “Free From is a fast-growing market, worth around £450 million in the UK. Keep an This advert shows we’re putting eye out for customers first and taking their the Free From needs and wants seriously.” advert this month
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hot in Gibraltar f you’re holidaying in the south of Spain this summer, it’s well worth taking a trip to Gibraltar – and not just for the view from the Rock. In April, Nutmeg launched in our Gibraltar store, and our children’s clothing range is proving to be popular. Christine Bryce, Category Director, Clothing, says: “Our customers in Gibraltar love Nutmeg. The store has a relatively small range but topped the company sales table for Nutmeg in its first week.”
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Supporting suppliers Inspired Pet Nutrition invited David to officially open their new, £7 million distribution centre in North Yorkshire. Formerly known as Waggs Food, the company’s pet food is sold in our stores.
Ken Smith, Colne Working with lots of different departments, Ken created a new system to control and reduce the loss of cut-proof gloves in the knife room. This great teamwork is saving money.
HOME FROM HOME: NUTMEG IN GIBRALTAR
Mark Simons, Grimsby Pegasus Way There were no shift coordinators on the white fish line, so Mark stepped into the role. He’s taken on all the necessary tasks without question and is doing a great job.
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We’re listening hard to the 79,168 of you that told us what you thought through the Your Say survey in March.
hank you to everyone who took part. Your feedback helps us understand what’s going well and what we should focus on.
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Getting engaged! It’s important that we work together in everything we do. This year’s survey shows that no matter where you work, you’re feeling more involved and we’re working better together. “We use the survey to measure how you feel about working at Morrisons,” says Paige Cahill, People Specialist – Engagement. “So it was really good to see engagement levels up across every area of the business, and more of you say that you’re proud to work here.”
Making it count As well as 37 closed questions, there were three ‘free text’ questions that let you share your thoughts
and ideas in more detail – and nearly 70,000 of you did. “It was a lot of reading!” says Paige. “But we read every single comment because they’re all important to us. We got a big group of colleagues from across stores, sites and Hilmore to help, to make sure we covered everything. It was a great example of teamwork.”
How we’re responding
From your feedback, four things were clear. You told us:
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We’re launching the Your Say Forum, which will be driven by 4 colleagues. It’s a place where we’ll bring We’re teamwork to listening hard life by listening and responding and responding to ideas that quickly wherever will make possible Morrisons a great place to work and shop. The first meeting will be held in July.
If you have any great stories of how you have responded to the survey results, we would love to hear them. Please email Paige at paige.cahill@morrisonsplc.co.uk
Communication across all levels needs to improve.
I really enjoyed being involved. Sometimes you’re in your own little bubble in your store, and it’s great to read opinions of colleagues from other areas of the business. You see that other people feel the same things as you.” Claire Middleton, Admin, Cash Office, Keighley
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As an Armed Forces-friendly organisation, we use teamwork to support the duties of our colleagues who are also in the Reserve Forces. ’ve just qualified as a Soldier, “I which involved a week’s basic skills course and a two-week intensive survival and weapons training course,” says Charlie Green, a Butcher at our Boundary Road store and an Army Reservist. 18 months ago, at the age of 38, Charlie realised his life-long ambition to join the Army. He trains once a week and takes part in weekend training and events when necessary. “We could be called on to help out in anything from providing emergency aid during natural disasters to assisting in war situations,” adds Charlie, whose colleagues have supported him getting to this point. “The store has always supported me. It’s through great teamwork, and arranging shifts and holidays so that I can work around training, that’s made this possible for me.”
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Flying the flag for Armed Forces Day Last year, David signed the Corporate Covenant which means we’re an Armed Forces-friendly organisation. That’s why we’re supporting Armed Forces Day on 25 June with: • Free hot drinks and then a 10% discount in Morrisons Cafés for Defence Privilege Card holders.
We’re also working with the Career Transition Partnership to recruit skilled ex-service people for lots of different jobs within Morrisons. Last month, we recruited four ex-members of the Army, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy for engineering roles in manufacturing. If you’re interested in joining the Reserve Forces, you can speak to your People Manager to find out how we can support you.
• Donations from the sale of selected products to the charity Walking With The Wounded. • Bag-packs in store by local Army Cadets raising money for Forces charities.
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More for e’re rewarding our customers more with a fresh, new-look Morrisons More card. We’re saying thank you to them with Morrisons More Points every time they shop with us, in store or online. “Our customers told us they like earning points, and being rewarded with £5 vouchers. But they also said that they want to earn points in more places, including in our customer cafés,” says Kate Mackervoy, Marketing Specialist – Loyalty. “So we’ve listened hard and responded quickly, and we’re giving customers what they want.”
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How does it work? Customers who currently have a Match & More card will automatically receive a new Morrisons More card through the post. They’ll also get two handy key fobs – one for themselves and one for someone else in their household, which some customers say they find easier to use. Customers don’t have to do anything. All their points and details have already been transferred onto their new Morrisons More card and it’s ready to use in store or online.
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More ways to earn More Points
Shop in store, online or at our petrol stations to earn More Points: • Earn 10 Morrisons More Points per litre when buying fuel at our petrol stations. • NEW! Earn 5 Morrisons More Points for every £1 you spend at Morrisons Café. • Earn 5 Morrisons More Points for every £1 you spend in store and online, including Flower Shop, Garden Centre and Pharmacy*.
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Customers Together we can do More
It’s taken teamwork to create the new Morrisons More card, and it’s teamwork that makes it work for customers. It started with the Fresh Look team listening hard to our customers. Then the Loyalty and Marketing teams created an offer that our customers will value, wrapped up in a great-looking card. Our Technology teams have worked hard to update our systems and it’s now over to Retail. “Our store teams have a huge role to play in helping our customers understand the change. We need colleagues to explain that they will automatically receive a new Morrisons More card through the post, and encourage customers to use their cards to earn Morrisons More Points whenever they shop,” says Eimear Allewell, Senior Marketing Manager - Loyalty.
WIN More Points
To celebrate the launch of our new Morrisons More card, we’re giving away ten prizes of 100,000 Morrisons More Points to lucky colleagues***. For the chance to win, email your answer to the following question to companycommunications @morrisonsplc.co.uk by 9 June 2016.
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Customers don’t have to do anything. Points and details are automatically transferred onto their new Morrisons More card and it’s ready to use.
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* Exclusions apply. See full terms and conditions supplied with the Morrisons More card or at morrisons.com/more ** By swiping your new card for the first time, or by continuing to use your old card, you are accepting our new terms and conditions. *** All correct answers will be entered into a draw. One winner will be drawn at random every day for ten days from 31 May. Winners will be announced on Colleague Facebook after the closing date. Full terms and conditions apply, please see on colleague noticeboards, Colleague Facebook or the intranet for full details.
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This month we’re launching our biggest-ever training programme to help our Store Managers be great leaders. he five-day programme will bring our 492 Store Managers together in their regional groups over the summer to build and develop their technical and leadership skills. “It’s the first time we’ve provided training on this scale,” says Fiona Phillips, People Manager – Retail Training. “Store Managers will take part in activities to strengthen their knowledge and skills – and they can take that learning back to their stores.”
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High standards We’re striving for great shop standards – and this training will make it happen by encouraging us to look at our stores with a fresh pair of eyes every day, for the benefit of our customers. Fiona adds: “Store Managers will also work together and share best practice because we know teamwork can make a huge difference. We’ll go further, together.”
Our plan to make us successful Jennifer Guy, People Manager, says: “At the heart of the programme is understanding the Store Manager role and the key role we all have to play in delivering our five ways of working.” There will also be some practical activities, such as Store Managers going into the kitchen to see and understand what it means to be a food maker.
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Training with a difference Store Managers will also get to know their Regional Managers better – because they’ll be delivering parts of the programme! “We already have lots of knowledge within the business,” says Jennifer. “We have experts who are committed
to sharing what they know so we want to involve them in the training. “That way, our Store Managers are learning from people who truly understand Morrisons, and know what we’re aiming to achieve.”
This is a great way for us to focus on our time in store, and feel motivated about what we can achieve together. It’s about learning, developing and passing that knowledge on.” Gary Mills, Group Retail Director
We’re very excited about it. Store Managers will strengthen their skills to run our stores even more effectively, and that will help us to Serve Customers Better.” Tina Emerton, Head of Support Office Service Operations
We want to equip our Store Managers with the skills to support their teams. That way, we can deliver the right hours in the right places to serve our customers better.”
We should be extremely proud of our stores – and this will help us to apply our learning to make them even better places for our colleagues and customers.” Sharon Mawhinney, People Director – Retail
Bill Glennie, Director - Store Support
Want more? If you’d like to know more about this training programme – or any other learning and development opportunities, please call 6711
This programme is about taking pride in our stores, and our teams, and making improvements in what our customers see and experience every day.” Nicola Constantinou, Head of Customer Experience
Store Manager My Job and Ways of Working aim to:
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We search the world to deliver good quality, great value products for our customers – and that takes teamwork on an international scale.
The sourcing office in Hong Kong
Global Sourcing Senior Leadership Team
n the 27th floor of one of the many skyscrapers that stand to attention along the Hong Kong skyline is a little bit of Morrisons. It’s the home of the Morrisons Global Sourcing Team. Established in 2011, the team of 34 provides a vital link between our customers, buyers and suppliers. Hong Kong is a hub for sourcing products from China, India and other parts of the world as Christine Lo, Sourcing Manager says: “We’re the eyes and ears of the company in the rest of the world. We work closely with the commercial, ethical and quality teams in Bradford, to research trends and find out what customers want. Using our local knowledge we find the right suppliers who deliver fantastic products at competitive prices.”
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Our Hong Kong-based technical team regularly visits supplier factories to advise on manufacturing processes, check quality and standards, and research new products our customers will buy back in the UK. Having these technical experts in the team means that our customers can be confident they’re buying good quality, great value products from us.
Being on the doorstep, the team can make sure suppliers are working to the same technical and ethical codes that we and our customers expect. Twice a year they visit the top 20% of our suppliers, who account for 60% of our business, so that they’re checking workers are treated fairly, the manufacturing process is safe and we’re all putting customers first.
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David meets the team David joined Group Commercial Director Darren Blackhurst on a recent visit to Hong Kong. David met the team, visited factories and took part in the first international Supplier Conference, attended by more than 150 people. “Our suppliers are part of our team. This conference helped them to understand our priorities and ways of working,” says Wanita Li, Sourcing Manager.
Working together Our Nutmeg and Global Sourcing teams worked together on the new colleague uniform. Global Sourcing used their Indian and Sri Lankan textile suppliers to get the best prices, while Nutmeg’s technical experts made sure that the cut, colour and fabric quality were just right.
When it comes to getting goods into the UK, Global Sourcing works with our Import team at Hilmore. In a great example of teamwork, the departments are combining orders from different suppliers across China. This fills more space in each container before it’s shipped, saving money and helping us to keep costs lower for customers. Another cost-saving project is also helping Logistics and store colleagues save time. Our Import team, Global Sourcing and suppliers are working on ‘store-ready units’. This means the goods are picked and packed in Asia ready to be placed directly onto our shelves in store.
China, Thailand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and India HOUSEHOLD, toys and electrical goods are leading categories: Last year they shipped enough aluminium foil to wrap almost
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Your fundraising stories Wearing odd socks to work helped Wellingborough raise £355 for Ups and Downs. The local charity supports children with Down’s Syndrome and their families.
A sponsored leg wax at Bathgate raised £175 for Sue Ryder.
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Volunteer police cadets organised a 999 Day at Glastonbury. It helped the local community and raised more than £250 for Sue Ryder.
Sue Ryder’s ‘Raise a Smile’ team will support your fundraising every step of the way and they would love to hear from you.
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Boundary Road colleagues celebrated the life of Checkout Manager Angela Stevenson, who died earlier this year. They held a massive event that raised more than £3,000 for breast cancer charities.
grant funding High Wycombe presented Come and Play Pre-school with a cheque for £8,670 to resurface its outdoor play area. Southport presented Caritas Care with £5,400 to fund a touch-screen computer for the people who visit the centre. The Barnstondale Centre received £1,135 for outdoor activity safety equipment for young people.
Many of you took part in the London Marathon, including Gary King, Hilmore House, who ran for Sue Ryder.
Morris helped Oswestry store to raise money for Sue Ryder.
North Edinburgh Childcare received £3,122 for play equipment for children from a disadvantaged area. Wigan MS Therapy Group received £1,920 to buy therapy plates that strengthen weak muscles and aid balance.
The British Red Cross received £5,000 for defibrillators to support the ambulance service.
Zoe Swift, Carmarthen, took the plunge for Sue Ryder, raising more than £500 with her charity bungee jump.
Maidstone Mencap received £2,500 to provide activities for children with learning disabilities.
Headway Nottingham received £3,683 towards a therapeutic area for people with long-term brain injuries.
Whiteknights Emergency Voluntary Service received £20,400 for a new blood bike that provides out-of-hours transport for the NHS.
By contributing £11,649 towards an accessible minibus for Open Country, we’re helping people with disabilities get out into the countryside.
Access Adventures received £2,750 to provide activities for people with disabilities.
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A local football club held a sponsored walk, raising £1,800 for the club and a cancer charity. Catton Community Champion Michelle Mendham kept them going by providing our great fresh food for their barbecue.
The needles are clicking at Diss. Colleagues have been busy knitting baby clothes to donate to the special care baby unit at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
Kendal is providing fruit for children taking part in a tennis, fitness and healthy eating programme at a local club.
First aiders Sue Whitehead, Kim Ayrton, Clive Whitaker and Hollie Featherstone showed real teamwork when taking care of a customer who’d fallen in the car park at Clifton and fractured her shoulder.
Colleagues from the Technology team, Hilmore House, took part in a community support day at Undercliffe Cemetery. Using teamwork, they spruced up the gardens and grounds.
Cowdenbeath donated bedding plants to help Kelty Community Council retain the Beautiful Fife Award.
Blackburn donated a gardening hamper to a local school. The delighted pupils sent the store a thank you picture.
Five-year-old Jessica wrote in saying she wanted to work on the tills. Dereham store treated Jessica and her brother Tobey to a tour. They made pizzas and helped out on the checkouts. 18
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Mick Croskery, Chorley, organised a movie convention in the town, involving the 13-foot tall Optimus Prime truck from the Transformers films. The event was so successful that Mick arranged for Optimus Prime to visit the store to help raise money for a defibrillator.
Colleagues from both Goole (above) and Cannock (below) donated cakes to local residential care homes to celebrate the Queen’s birthday.
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The force was with York, where colleagues celebrated the Star Wars promotion.
As part of the recent We Make Morrisons sessions at Worsley, colleagues recreated the new logo with products from the site.
Lutterworth organised a bakery demonstration for a local school. Pupils had a go themselves, sugaring doughnuts and adding jam. Later, one pupil brought his mum into store to meet Ian, the Bakery Manager. Banbury Community Champion Emma Boisselle invited a local Scouts group for a tour. She also held a talk and fruit-tasting event to help local schoolchildren with their rainforest project.
To their delight, children from a local special educational needs school were invited behind the scenes at Peterhead store. They loved the chance to make their own pizzas.
Central Region butchery and bakery apprentices received their well-deserved certificates from Regional People Manager Sandra Finnie and Allan Davies, Regional Manager. Best last days… were celebrated by:
Above: Rhona Burden, Selby Below: Mary Goose, Felixstowe
Customers at Victory Park showed that they’re a caring lot, raising more than £2,000 worth of pet items for the RSPCA Animal Rescue Centre.
Grantham helped George to celebrate his birthday. George was born on the site where Morrisons now stands and has shopped at the store since it opened.
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Below: Lesley Coaten, Pinchbeck
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