Yet another Morrisons thread

[Pete]

I bought a Microwave Curry from them a while back but couldn't eat it as the best I could describe it as is slop.

I'm not sure where to start with how wrong your choice of shopping is there.

As a single man with seemingly ooddles of time on your hands you should've prepared and cooked your own food rather than complain about the "slop" from a 2-minute microwave sample Morrisons had on sale for £1.50

Best Microwave curry is the Birds Eye 99p one. Lovely and no nonsense in it.

[Anonymous]

Have you tried using their own-brand antiperspirants too? 5 minutes and you're sweating like a rapist again.

[rdobbie]

So I think this may turn out to be a bit of a half-arsed rebrand. This picture is apparently of one of their new stores. As you can see, it has the new logo on the towers, but still has the old logo on the main sign. If they're going to actually bother to change the logo, at least change all the signage, especially on a brand new store.

That store opened on Monday.

Up until about three weeks ago, it had all OLD style signage. Quite why that was ever put up, only to be replaced with (at least SOME) new stuff, I have no clue...

Only Morrisons could build a new store and 'forget' to tell the signage company they had a new logo.

The logos on the towers look like sheets of plastic they've slapped on to a pane of glass. Shame, cos the architecture of that store is lovely (cover up the Morrisons logos with your fingers and see the instant improvement), and with a little bit of thought the new logo could have complimented the building.

Mind you, we are talking here about a company that has no e-mail system whatsoever in the year 2007, and still conducts all its affairs by snail mail.

How long are they going to resist moving into the 21st century? Tesco and Asda must think it's a gift to have a competitor who stands firmly rooted in 1985 while they venture into online shopping, self scanning tills and 24 hour opening.

Our local Morrisons shuts at 8 every night, while the Tesco half a mile away shuts at 11. It doesn't take the greatest business brain to work out that the profit made during those extra 3 trading hours far outweighs the extra staff wages and electricity etc. I sometimes wonder if Morrisons actually want to compete.

[Anonymous]

It is very backward, isn't it?

I guess it's a very 1980s thing to shut at 8pm.

Even the reintroduction of a smoking area in the Safeway JM mentioned earlier on in 2005 seems daft - before the ban was published I know but very, very backward!

Our local Safeway had a self-scanning system called Shop & Go which Morrisons of course dumped for no real reason.

[Pete]

Our local Safeway had a self-scanning system called Shop & Go which Morrisons of course dumped for no real reason.

safeway was in the process of getting rid of that IIRC. I think they lost quite a lot of money to those unscrupulous types who often didn't bother to scan half the stuff. *ahem*

[Anonymous]

But didn't you get checked every so many shops, the frequency of which increased if you were caught being naughty?

[Lorns]

Our local Safeway had a self-scanning system called Shop & Go which Morrisons of course dumped for no real reason.

safeway was in the process of getting rid of that IIRC. I think they lost quite a lot of money to those unscrupulous types who often didn't bother to scan half the stuff. *ahem*

We call that five fingered discount in our house. Do you know much AA and AAA batteries cost these days?!( no neither do i, i use rechargeable, courtesy of that 5 fingered discount )

[nwtv2003]

So I think this may turn out to be a bit of a half-arsed rebrand. This picture is apparently of one of their new stores. As you can see, it has the new logo on the towers, but still has the old logo on the main sign. If they're going to actually bother to change the logo, at least change all the signage, especially on a brand new store.

That store opened on Monday.

Up until about three weeks ago, it had all OLD style signage. Quite why that was ever put up, only to be replaced with (at least SOME) new stuff, I have no clue...

Only Morrisons could build a new store and 'forget' to tell the signage company they had a new logo.

The logos on the towers look like sheets of plastic they've slapped on to a pane of glass. Shame, cos the architecture of that store is lovely (cover up the Morrisons logos with your fingers and see the instant improvement), and with a little bit of thought the new logo could have complimented the building.

As I understand it with Speke is that staff have been training there for a while or so now, but I agree I don't why they've half heartedly replaced the signage. The uniforms are getting bizzarer as the new shirts have been introduced (the same as the current but the logo being replaced with the new one and Morrisons in green font) it's going to look very odd.

Mind you, we are talking here about a company that has no e-mail system whatsoever in the year 2007, and still conducts all its affairs by snail mail.

Apparently at our store we don't even have a photocopier. I've read up and apparently they are going to bring a whole new computerised system by the end of the decade or rebranding. Senior management do have their own E-Mail acoounts, but that's pretty much it.

Our local Morrisons shuts at 8 every night, while the Tesco half a mile away shuts at 11. It doesn't take the greatest business brain to work out that the profit made during those extra 3 trading hours far outweighs the extra staff wages and electricity etc. I sometimes wonder if Morrisons actually want to compete.

Our store shuts at 8pm on Monday-Wednesday and Saturday, only on Thursday and Friday we open until 10pm, but believe me when I say that after 7.30pm on the days they shut at 8pm, there is hardly any reason to keep the shop open at all, there's no trade, I think it used to be 10pm every night at one point, but they stopped that.

Warrington Tesco is open 24 Hours and most people know that they can go there for really out of hours shopping, I've been at 11pm several times and seen it busy. One of our Asda's is 24 hours too, but that's further away.

Just come back from 2 weeks in Hungary and it appears that as they have no Sunday Trading Laws, alot of Tescos are actually open 24/7, the one nearest to me was 6am to 10pm, which was very handy.

[Pete]

Just come back from 2 weeks in Hungary and it appears that as they have no Sunday Trading Laws, alot of Tescos are actually open 24/7, the one nearest to me was 6am to 10pm, which was very handy.

neither does Scotland. I hate all this nonsense of stores in England having to close on saturday nights. Our shops are far better being open 24/7

Expcet of course Tesco Extra in Galashiels, which proudly proclaims "OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK" but shuts for four hours on fridays and saturdays to stop the drunks from the nearby club playing on the travellators.

[Lorns]

It's convienience.

I've bought microwave meals from other shops and they taste a hell of a lot better.

You really ought to spend 20 quid on a slow cooker. Then i can give you recipes for wholesome tasty food that will last you a week for a tenner at the most.

[Chris]

Morrisons could have easily kept BOTH brands for the stores and developed a tertiary brand for own products that would be stocked in either. Dixons/Currys/Mitsui as an example.

Familiarity would have been retained throughout the country then.

This is what I don't understand, Something like M&S used to have with StMichael.

Although they have now long since ditched the "St Michael" brand for food, they now seem to have adopted the "Your M&S" branding for a lot of the bags etc, but not for tangible merchandise.

They also seem to be introducing slight design tweaks to the logo; in that if you look closely at the logo on some food products, the M&S logo is now written in Helvetica (sp?) as opposed to Optima.

(Yes, I do work for them!)