The archive
Morrisons
113 pieces written from the shop floor, 2010 to 2023. Store visits, results reaction, pricing and range changes, kept as they were written.
2023
- Issue 487 - Nectar prices · 5 May 2023
2022
- Retail By Email - Issue 472 - Tesco delivered · 25 April 2022
- A few things we spotted in stores this week · 7 April 2022
2021
- The leading deal this Christmas · 15 December 2021
2020
- Sainsbury's - a new strategy in slides · 11 November 2020
- Lidl - out of the firing line · 10 August 2020
- Sainsbury's Q1 · 3 July 2020
- Sainsbury's - Change afoot - the long read · 29 January 2020
- Veganuary · 7 January 2020
2019
- Sainsbury's - Marked Aggression · 16 December 2019
- Sainsbury's / Asda - Not looking good (20 February 2019) · 20 February 2019
- Sainsbury's / Asda - Not looking good (20 February 2019) [2] · 20 February 2019
- Happy New Year 2019 · 8 January 2019
2018
- Asda - Turning the corner · 19 November 2018
- Plastic (not) fantastic · 30 October 2018
- A marriage of convenience? (2 May 2018) · 2 May 2018
- A marriage of convenience? (2 May 2018) [2] · 2 May 2018
- Sainsbury's & Asda · 30 April 2018
- Waitrose - where from here? · 14 March 2018
- Asda - Rolled Back... · 17 January 2018
- Express Checkout – Christmas 2017 · 11 January 2018
- Christmas 2017 - Morrisons · 9 January 2018
2017
- So, Black Friday.... · 11 December 2017
- Sainsbury's results - Transition, some three years in? · 28 November 2017
- Morrisons / McColls and the wider wholesale sector · 21 August 2017
- Larger packs at Tesco... · 9 August 2017
- Sainsbury's - own label progression · 18 July 2017
- Sainsbury's - in to growth · 5 July 2017
- Retail - It's all going on · 19 June 2017
- A quick market update · 11 May 2017
- Sainsbury's results - What's in store? · 3 May 2017
- Sainsbury's - Noteworthy slides · 3 May 2017
- Morrisons - Reasons to be cheerful · 9 March 2017
- Sir Ken Morrison – A tribute · 1 February 2017
- Tesco / Booker - High level overview (30 January 2017) · 30 January 2017
- Market Overview - Christmas 2016 · 10 January 2017
- It's a long read! Market Overview - Christmas 2016 · 3 January 2017
2016
- Sainsbury's - The slides that matter · 10 November 2016
- Poundland hitting the headlines · 31 October 2016
2015
- Throwback Thursday No.4 - 2011 - Morrisons Kirkstall · 16 July 2015
- Throwback Thursday No.1 – 2011 – M Local · 25 June 2015
2014
- The 12 days of Dave Lewis – No.12 – Clubcard · 28 December 2014
- Retail Halloween 2014 – Well done to….. · 17 October 2014
- Tesco: 66 points for Dave Lewis – No.16 – Everyday Value · 12 August 2014
- Tesco: 66 points for Dave Lewis – No.14 – Price Down · 10 August 2014
- Price - Not everyone can be the cheapest. · 7 May 2014
- Morrisons are cheaper... · 1 May 2014
- Comparing Apples and Apples... · 2 April 2014
2013
- Tesco – 1 year on – What’s in store? Part 1 · 15 April 2013
- Nutmeg arrives in store · 27 March 2013
- Morrisons Sales Slide – Get Rid of Fresh Formats, Go Online! A Panic & Hysteria Special · 12 March 2013
2012
- Tesco to (re)launch ‘price promise’ and it includes own label… · 14 November 2012
- Hysteria and panic – It’s the half year for Morrisons · 14 October 2012
- The Co-Operative – that good with food? · 2 July 2012
- Negative Q1 for Morrisons – What’s occurring at ground level? · 31 May 2012
- Get your tin hats on! It’s Morrisons Q1 results. What’s happening on the ground? · 2 May 2012
- Tooley St Metro – a sign of Tesco things to come? What about the rest? · 23 April 2012
- ‘Tes-go’ ‘big price flop’ – Forget the cliches, what are the real issues facing Tesco? – Part 2 · 9 March 2012
- ‘Tes-go’ ‘big price flop’ – Forget the cliches, what are the real issues facing Tesco? · 29 February 2012
- Sainsbury’s XL ‘big boxes’ – Food by no means secondary. · 11 February 2012
- Sainsbury’s seem to be trading well from their big box stores – Non food first! · 31 January 2012
- Morrisons 'disappointing' Xmas performance - +0.7%! What about 2012? · 16 January 2012
2011
- The end is nigh – what for Sainsbury’s, Tesco and the rest? · 24 December 2011
- Mid December... How are Morrisons set for the festive period? · 16 December 2011
- Early December – how are the retailers set for Christmas? First up – Asda · 9 December 2011
- The future in store, showcased in Wrexham - Part 2 · 29 November 2011
- The future in store, showcased in Wrexham · 24 November 2011
- Q3 results are good but what’s going on in the stores? · 17 November 2011
- Booths – the Waitrose of the north? · 8 November 2011
- Tesco Bradford – does it have ‘extra’ ? · 2 November 2011
- M Kitchen fully launched – let o2o commence! · 13 October 2011
- Asda, ‘super’markets ‘super’ centres and pure EDLP? · 6 October 2011
- o2o launches on Ready Meals and Pizza.. · 3 October 2011
- More changes in Kirkstall · 30 September 2011
- Tesco ‘big’ Price drop goes live….. · 27 September 2011
- The forgotten man reappears with £500m promise · 23 September 2011
- Good half year delivered - bigger picture? · 15 September 2011
- Good half year expected – what about the deeper picture? · 7 September 2011
- Bakery – Much more than bread. · 1 September 2011
- A few loose ends to tie up in Kirkstall… · 19 August 2011
- First Ilkley, now Wilmslow for M Local · 6 August 2011
- Swinton gets the Kirkstall treatment · 31 July 2011
- Own label to Morrisons own brand? · 28 July 2011
- Dalton rolls back the clock with non food · 13 July 2011
- M Local – an asset for any location. · 8 July 2011
- Morrisons ‘driving’ efficiency + a bit of M Local · 2 July 2011
- Swinton store selected for next lab phase · 28 June 2011
- Vertical Integration via Hong Kong? · 23 June 2011
- Asda slide again – Bentonville won’t be pleased. · 13 June 2011
- Three steps closer to M Local? · 10 June 2011
- Would UGO back? · 8 June 2011
- Another variation on Fresh 2 Go? · 30 May 2011
- Do the Iceland bid rumours have mileage? · 25 May 2011
- So….Convenience – done the Morrisons way… · 14 May 2011
- Morrisons Kirkstall Part 3 + York Productivity + a bit of Own Label · 3 May 2011
- Kirkstall – An ever moving feast – Part 2 · 23 April 2011
- Kirkstall - An ever moving feast - Store finished! · 15 April 2011
- Retail is a ‘global village’- what else may Dalton take from across the pond? · 11 April 2011
- So how do you save £100m in 3 years? · 29 March 2011
- Dalton and Richard’s ‘self help’ – Interim Review 2011 · 16 March 2011
- 10% of New York · 10 March 2011
- Why do Morrisons struggle to get ‘premiumisation?’ · 7 March 2011
- Kiddicare – a grown up purchase? · 21 February 2011
- A trip around Kirkstall ‘concept’ store – Part 2 · 15 February 2011
- Dalton Philips ‘lab’ concept gathers pace. · 28 January 2011
- Morrisons + Ocado – Sitting in a tree? · 16 January 2011
2010
- Tesco’s unavailable Promotions – Skill or Will? · 16 November 2010
- Retail’s new King? What challenges face Simon King at Asda? · 4 November 2010
- Dalton’s Labs and how he can experiment with confidence. · 24 October 2010
- Dalton’s got scope to experiment · 24 September 2010
- Justin King and Sainsbury’s – Stuff of business legend. · 27 August 2010
- Asda’s food ‘not good enough’ · 20 August 2010
- Morrisons to abandon the shop · 18 August 2010
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