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Morrisons DOUBLES number of professional florists in-store as flowers sales surge

– 300 professional florists to offer handmade bouquet service across the UK this Autumn –

– Research shows flowers are the country’s most popular lockdown purchase, with online searches up 277% –

Morrisons is doubling the number of fully-qualified, expert florists in its stores to 300 this Autumn – to provide fresh, bespoke bouquets for its customers.

The supermarket is expanding its instore florist shops, which will see a further 60 florist stations installed across the UK – to take the total to over 100. 

The new florist shops will provide 180 additional roles for qualified professional florists, who may be out of work following the impact that the pandemic has had on the high street.

Recent Google data has found that flowers have been one of the country’s most popular online purchases during lockdown, with online searches up 277 per cent. Morrisons is currently selling over four million flower stems every week.

Morrisons is doubling the number of fully-qualified, expert florists in its stores to 300 this Autumn – to provide fresh, bespoke bouquets for its customers. The supermarket is expanding its instore florist shops, which will see a further 60 florist stations installed across the UK – to take the total to over 100. The new florist shops will provide 180 additional roles for qualified professional florists, who may be out of work following the impact that the pandemic has had on the high street. Recent Google data has found that flowers have been one of the country’s most popular online purchases during lockdown, with online searches up 277 per cent. Morrisons is currently selling over four million flower stems every week. All Morrisons florists will offer a handmade-to-order bouquet service, with customers able to choose from 75 different stem varieties. Bouquets can be crafted for any occasion and to any budget. They are prepared whilst customers do their weekly shop. For more information, please contact the Morrisons press office at The Academy morrisons@theacademypr.com

All Morrisons florists will offer a handmade-to-order bouquet service, with customers able to choose from 75 different stem varieties. Bouquets can be crafted for any occasion and to any budget. They are prepared whilst customers do their weekly shop.

Morrisons offers a five day freshness guarantee for all of its flowers in the home. The supermarket works closely with growers to plant their fields and has one of the quickest ‘field to store’ transit times. Stems are delivered fresh to stores each day, sourced from FlowerWorld – a 17.5 acre flower site, wholly owned by the supermarket. 

The prices of Morrison’s bouquets are up to a third lower than those from well-known national online florists as it has direct relationships with growers rather than working with wholesalers.

Jane Watson, Flowers Manager at Morrisons said: “Flowers make people feel happier – with their beautiful shapes, bright colours and scents. We work with some of the best growers in the world and have some of the best stems.

“So we wanted to have the best florists in store to make bouquets for our customers. It’s been a difficult year for the flower industry, and we hope this also provides good job prospects for florists looking for work.” 

To place an order or find the nearest Morrisons florist, visit www.morrisons.co.uk.

Morrisons Launches Tommy’s Afternoon Tea Food Box to Mark WW2 Anniversary

Morrisons has added to its collection of Food Boxes with a special ‘Tommy’s Afternoon Tea Box’ to help customers celebrate the anniversary of the end of World War II on Wednesday 2 September.

Shoppers have two options when ordering the box: £15 will get you all of the traditional teatime treats including scones, clotted cream, cakes and ingredients for sandwiches and for an additional £5 your box will come with a full-size bottle of Prosecco.

Both boxes support the Royal British Legion Industries’ Tommy Tea campaign, with £1 from every box going to the charity, as well as an additional £10,000 that has been donated by the supermarket. Each box will also contain a leaflet with information about the charity and a free car sticker.

Amy Bishop, Manager of Food Boxes at Morrisons said: “We’re proud to continue supporting our veterans and the RBLI’s Tommy’s Tea Campaign. Our new food box is packed full of ingredients for customers to host their own celebrations to mark this historic occasion.”

The box is available to pre-order now and will be delivered to customers over the bank holiday weekend.

A typical box contains:

•    Morrisons The Best All Butter Sultana Scone 4 Pack

•    Rodda’s Classic Cornish Clotted Cream

•    Mini Tiptree Strawberry Jam – Glass 42g

•    Morrisons Lemon Bakewells 6 Pack

•    Morrisons The Best Chocolate Cake

•    Egg Mayo Sandwich Filler 250g

•    Cheese & Onion Sandwich Filler 250g

•    Medium White Loaf

•    Morrisons Red Label Tea Bags 40s 125g

•    Cravendale Semi Skimmed Milk 1L

+ optional Morrisons The Best Prosecco DOC 75cl

For more information or to purchase the Morrisons Tommy Tea Box visit https://www.morrisons.com/food-boxes/boxes/all-boxes

Morrisons launches family recipe box delivery service with five meals for £30

Morrisons has launched a food box that offers families the ingredients for five meals together with simple recipes describing how to cook them … and all for just £30, including delivery.

The family recipe box – called Five Meals to Feed a Family of Four – is designed to provide quick, easy and affordable homemade meals that families can cook from scratch at home.

Each is designed to be served in the evenings and make mealtimes a social, family experience.

The launch comes after a study released earlier in July showed an increase in family dinners during lockdown, with shared family mealtimes being cited as positive for mental health and social wellbeing[1].

Priced at £30, including next-day or nominated day delivery, the Morrisons family recipe box works out at just £1.50 per meal per head. Other similar boxes on the market cost upwards of £50 for the same number of meals and customers can save up to 78 per cent on the cost of the meals per serving by choosing Morrisons[2].

Unlike other recipe boxes, the Morrisons family recipe box contains full retail-sized packs of ingredients. This means customers will also have ingredients left over at the end of the week – which they can use to cook more meals. 

The box is ideal for families that enjoy preparing meals from scratch and is also a great way to get children involved cooking at home.   

Tessa Callaghan Head of Food Boxes at Morrisons said: “Many of our customers enjoy eating meals as a family and we have seen customers do this more during the pandemic. It can be difficult to constantly cook up new dishes that please everyone. So, we wanted to create a great value box that contained high-quality produce and recipe cards – to make it easier to try new things.”

Recipes that are included in the Morrisons Five Meals to Feed a Family of Four box are:

  • Classic Spaghetti Bolognese
  • Veggie Pasta Bake
  • Rosti Topped Cottage Pie
  • Sausage Tray Bake
  • Mixed Bean Chilli with Wedges

The box contains 22 different products and weighs 14kg. The contents represent a saving on normal Morrisons instore prices, even with next day delivery included.

Morrisons has sold tens of thousands of food boxes. Customers can now choose from 15 varieties including; a Vegetarian Food Box, Gluten Free Food Box, BBQ Food Box, Market Kitchen Takeaway Favourites Box and British Farmers Food Box. For more information, visit: morrisons.com/food-boxes.

The Morrisons Five Meals to Feed a Family of Four is available to buy via www.morrisons.com/food-boxes from Wednesday 15 July. Orders placed before 3pm can be delivered next day.

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Morrisons introduces Food Parcels for customers to donate to food banks

  • Customers can purchase pre-packed bags of groceries designed around the needs of local food banks
  • Move follows £10m initial donation from the supermarket at the start of the pandemic –

Morrisons is making it easier for its customers to feed people in need by launching food parcels that can be bought and then donated at the checkout.

Food banks are often overwhelmed by products such as rice and pasta and short of other items that people actually need.

The supermarket’s new ‘Pick Up Packs’ cost between £1 and £3 and contain a mix of food products that have been requested by the local food bank based on their local needs.

The packs are the brainchild of Morrisons colleague Michelle Leary from Basingstoke, who noticed that customers struggled with what to donate to food banks.

The pre-packed parcels mean that customers don’t need to spend time browsing the shelves for items to donate. After a successful trial, they are now being rolled out nationally.

Customers can easily pick one up at the start of their shop and pay for it at the till with the rest of their shopping. The pack is then put aside and collected by volunteers working for the food bank.

Rebecca Singleton, Community Director at Morrisons, said: “The UK’s food banks are a lifeline for the most vulnerable in our communities and these parcels are an easy way to donate to them. At Morrisons, we want to play our full part in feeding the nation and ensure nobody gets left behind.”

The ‘Pick Up Pack’ initiative is part of Morrisons drive to restock Britain’s food banks and continue feeding the nation, particularly those who are vulnerable and struggling with the economic fallout of COVID-19.

Additionally, Morrisons, in partnership with the Trussell Trust, has also become the first UK supermarket to trial an online donation mechanism that goes straight into the pockets of local food banks.

Customers can purchase £10 vouchers on the Morrisons Food Boxes website (http://www.morrisons.com/food-boxes) which gets sent directly to a local food bank of their choice.  The online scheme was initially piloted with 5 local food banks and has now been rolled out to 50 nationally.

For more information, visit www.morrisons.co.uk.

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Morrisons introduces lunchtime meal deal which includes premium best sandwiches

*£3 offer is the only supermarket meal deal to include premium sandwiches* 

*Deal also includes options for vegans, Free From, sushi, freshly made sandwiches and hot rolls*

Morrisons is to become the only retailer to sell premium sandwiches as part of its lunchtime meal deal. 

‘The Best’ range which is priced at £2.75 individually will now be included in the £3 meal deal. The new selection will include; ‘The Best’ New York Deli Grab Bag; ‘The Best’ Ham Hock and Egg Sandwich; ‘The Best’ Chicken and Bacon Sandwich and a Morrisons Chicken Caesar Triple Wrap.

Uniquely it includes baguettes, freshly made in-store sandwiches and hot rolls.  Vegan options and even triple sandwiches and wraps are also included. Morrisons customers can enjoy an array of options including:

  • Freshly baked and hand filled baguettes and rolls

  • Salad boxes freshly prepared in store daily

  • A selection of Meat, Fish or Veggie sushi boxes

  • Hot Bacon or Sausage sandwiches

  • In the near future customers will also be able to create a salad box from the Morrisons salad bar, with everything from pasta salads, hard boiled eggs and falafel to onion bhajis, BBQ jackfruit and coleslaw.

Snacks include a jumbo vegetable samosa or succulent king prawns with a sweet chilli dip and for those with a sweet tooth – rocky road or caramel flapjacks.

Finally to wash it all down, there’s a wide range of drinks including Innocent Green Smoothies and Costa Coffee Lattes.

Morrisons £3 Meal Deal Selection:

MAINS

Sandwiches and Wraps – including triple sandwiches and wraps and vegan and gluten free options as well as Morrisons ‘The Best’ range of sandwiches

Baguettes and Rolls – Freshly baked and hand-filled daily

Salad Boxes – Freshly prepared in store daily

Hot Rolls – Bacon and Sausage Sandwiches

Pasta Pots – selection of pasta pots including loaded chicken and tuna and sweetcorn

Medium Salad Box – Create your own salad box from Morrisons in store salad bar

SNACKS

Crisps

Fruit pots

Yogurts

Flapjacks

Protein pots

Sushi Snack Packs

Selected Pastries

DRINKS

Fizzy drinks including 500ml Coca-cola

Water

Fresh juice

Hot Drinks from Morrisons in store coffee machine

Morrisons meal deal is available in all stores nationwide.

Morrisons NEW ‘fakeaway’ boxes – high street meals at a fraction of the cost

Morrisons is adding to its food boxes line up with two new ‘fakeaway’ boxes containing Brits favourite meals from the high street.

Each box contains eight meals offering a variety of the nation’s favourite cuisines to satisfy those takeaway cravings but at a fraction of the cost you’d expect to pay at a popular chain.

The boxes are priced at just £30 including next day delivery which works out at just £3.75 per meal.

The Market Kitchen Takeaway Favourites Box contains two Hot Peri Peri Chicken with Spicy Rice, two Garlic Peri Peri Chicken ith Spicy Rice, two Southern Fried Chicken and BBQ Sauce, and two Naked Burrito Bowls.

The Market Kitchen Street Food Menu Box contains two Chicken Katsu with Sticky Rice, two Chicken Pad Thai, two Satay Chicken and two Butternut Squash and Chickpea Curries.

These meals are all brand new to Morrisons and are only available via the food box service.

Hannah Munns, Head of Market Street at Morrisons said: “These new food boxes offer our customers the chance to still enjoy their favourite high-street eats at home.

“They’ve been created using authentic recipes and good ingredients. We hope they’ll go some way to satisfying our cravings for some of our favourite takeaways.” 

Launched at the start of the coronavirus pandemic to help feed the nation, Morrisons has now sold tens of thousands of food boxes delivered to customers’ doorsteps.

As the nation’s shopping habits continue to change, Morrisons has increased production to cater for all customers, not just those vulnerable and self-isolating.

The Market Kitchen Takeaway Favourites and Market Street Food Menu Boxes join ten others in Morrisons Food Box range including; the Vegan Essentials Food Box; British Food Box; and Family Meat Box.

In May, Morrisons also announced it was going to be delivering flowers in a box with a range of Bouquet Boxes costing just £20, including next day delivery.

For more information visit: https://www.morrisons.com/food-boxes/

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Morrisons extends NHS 10% discount to September

– Initial 12 week discount for NHS Heroes will be extended until the end of September –

– The move is a thank you to hard working NHS staff during the battle against the coronavirus –

Morrisons is to extend the 10% discount that NHS heroes receive on their grocery shop until the end of September.

The discount was first introduced in April and aims to support the 1.5 million NHS staff through the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. It is a thank you from Morrisons.

NHS staff are continuing to put themselves at risk and face numerous challenges during the Coronavirus emergency.

Morrisons is therefore to extend the discount until September 30th when it will be reviewed.

For the first time, NHS workers will also be able to gain the discount if they are ordering a home delivery through Morrisons.com. They simply have to sign up for the Morrisons NHS Club to receive the discount.

David Potts, Morrisons Chief Executive said: “We want to thank everybody in the National Health Service for playing their part in the ongoing battle against the coronavirus.

“We hope this measure combined with our dedicated hours for NHS staff will make life a little easier at this very challenging time for them.”

To benefit from the 10% discount staff need to present their NHS ID card in all Morrisons stores.

To make sure NHS staff can get hold of the groceries they need, Morrisons have also introduced an NHS hour at the beginning of every day from 6am-7am. On Sundays, the majority of stores open at 9am for hard working NHS workers to shop.

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Morrisons launches vegan essentials food box

  • 15kg box includes lentils, meat free sausages, vegan cheese, jackfruit, fresh fruit and vegetables
  • 23 products for £35, including next-day delivery, will feed two people for one week

Morrisons has launched a brand-new Vegan Essentials Food Box to help its vegan customers during the lockdown.

The food boxes are particularly helpful for those who are vulnerable or self-isolating and can’t leave the house but are available for anyone to purchase.

Created in response to requests from customers following the launch of Morrisons other food boxes, the Vegan Essentials Food Box is available for £35, including next-day delivery to your doorstep, and will feed two people for a week.

Weighing just under 15kg and containing 23 different items, the box includes lentils, jackfruit, couscous, meat free sausages, meat free mince, dairy free cheese and almond milk – as well as a mix of fresh fruit and vegetables.

A typical Morrisons Vegan Essentials Box will include:

●       KTC Chickpeas, 500g

●       Morrisons Jackfruit in BBQ Sauce, 150g

●       Morrisons Cous Cous, 500g

●       Di Martino Penne Pasta, 500g

●       Pure Sunflower Spread, 500g

●       Alpro Almond Milk Unsweetened, 1L

●       Alpro Plain Yoghurt, 500g

●       Morrisons Almonds, 200g

●       Violife Dairy Free Cheese, 200g

●       Heck Meat-Free Sausages

●       The Meatless Farm Co Mince, 400g

 

 ●     Morrisons V Taste No Chicken Strips, 228g

●     Morrisons Wonky Carrots, 1kg

●     Morrisons Brown Onions, 1kg

●     Morrisons The Best Sweet Peppers, 250g

●     Morrisons Baby Spinach, 160g

●     Morrisons The Best Farmhouse Loaf, 800g

●     Morrisons Baby Potatoes, 1kg

●     Morrisons Royal Gala Apples, 6 pack

●     Morrisons Passata, 500g

●     Morrisons Vegan Stock Pots, 4 pack

●     Morrisons Apple & Cinnamon Granola, 500g

●     Lotus Original Caramelised Biscuits, 250g

Possible recipe options include a vegan pasta bolognese, rainbow salad bowls, soups, vegan sausage sandwiches or granola.

Tessa Callaghan, Head of Food Boxes at Morrisons, says: “Many of our vegan customers have got in touch to ask whether we could create a food box for them. We’ve sourced some of the best vegan food for this food box as we continue to play our full part in feeding the nation during these unprecedented times.”

Lockdown has meant that people are shopping differently so Morrisons has launched a number of different food boxes including a Gluten Free Food Box, and British Farmers Food Box.

The Vegan Essentials Food Box is the latest in the range to help feed its vegan customers during the pandemic.  

For more information, visit www.morrisons.com/food-boxes/

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£500,000 Morrisons Foundation Fund offers Lifeline to Homeless

Morrisons Foundation has set aside a £500,000 fund over the next three months to help charities offer additional protection, services and support to the homeless as a result of Covid-19.

There are currently 320,00 homeless people in Briton and experts are warning more must be done to support the homeless and to avoid a spike in homelessness resulting from the pandemic’s economic impact.

The emergency funds are being provided as homeless people and charities face a crunch because:

  • There has been a 48% decline in voluntary income to charities since the onset of Covid-19
  • Many hotels have been forced to close, leaving some without accomodation
  • Some charities have seen a 20% reduction in staff due to self isolation and sickness
  • Charities have had to urgently source PPE equipment, food and everyday essentials.

Charities will be able to apply for emergency funding to pay for these costs.

David Potts, Chief Executive of Morrisons, said: “Morrisons is committed to helping the most vulnerable in our society.

“We know that the coronavirus outbreak presents a particular risk to the homeless and we want to do our bit to help. This new fund will help charities doing vital work to care for the homeless at this critical time.”

Nick Connolly, Managing Director of End Youth Homelessness, said: “Our member charities need cash to pay for staff, personal protective equipment, food and other essentials to a level they could not have possibly have envisaged a few months ago. We are so pleased this is being recognised.” 

Charities will be able to apply for financial help with:

  • Outreach and support for rough sleepers – including the supply of food and healthcare essentials
  • Delivery of services in hostels and shelters – including the payment of additional staff, purchase of PPE equipment and provision of emergency accommodation
  • Information and advice – including the provision of health and wellbeing services and helplines.

Rough sleepers are particularly vulnerable to Covid-19 as they are more likely to have underlying health conditions and are less able to access basic sanitation.

Charities can apply online for grants of up to £10,000 at www.morrisonsfoundation.com and successful applications will be fast tracked for payment.