Morrisons to open 25 stores and create 7000 jobs

vax2002

People only buy so much food, what will happen is small business that provide a living wage around the new supermarkets will be lost and all those that work in them, morrisons will employ some of them on a fraction of what they were paid before and drop the local suppliers that supplied the local bussines so they go bust as well, the people that these business spent with will go bust and the whole town goes down.
as the s-crap wages they pay only pay basic bills, those lucky enough to be employed by the new store will not have any spare money to spend elsewhere and even if they did, everywhere else will have shut down, so morrisons get a big slice of the wages back as well .
where the money would go around a town before, it goes in the pockets of one greedy corporation and stays there.
Creating jobs my !!!!!

savemoney

I agree money also leaves the area rather than if it went to local shops it tends to stay in that area. I know most of us use supermarkets for shopping and in some cases they can help a area but more often that not they do the opposite. I just dont like how they claim it creates new jobs when it doesn't really they even go to lengths now to look like ther doing us all a favour buy building community centres and as in tesco in my town now saving a working mens club whcih would other wise close due to them, so what, it makes that area a no go area now for many due to the traffic and a road closure which will now dissipate traffic on to other streets. A lot of small shops nearby will close even if they not directly competing there may be effected by parking/congestion

vax2002 wrote: »

People only buy so much food, what will happen is small business that provide a living wage around the new supermarkets will be lost and all those that work in them, morrisons will employ some of them on a fraction of what they were paid before and drop the local suppliers that supplied the local bussines so they go bust as well, the people that these business spent with will go bust and the whole town goes down.
as the s-crap wages they pay only pay basic bills, those lucky enough to be employed by the new store will not have any spare money to spend elsewhere and even if they did, everywhere else will have shut down, so morrisons get a big slice of the wages back as well .
where the money would go around a town before, it goes in the pockets of one greedy corporation and stays there.
Creating jobs my !!!!!

FTBFun

vax2002 wrote: »

People only buy so much food, what will happen is small business that provide a living wage around the new supermarkets will be lost and all those that work in them, morrisons will employ some of them on a fraction of what they were paid before and drop the local suppliers that supplied the local bussines so they go bust as well, the people that these business spent with will go bust and the whole town goes down.
as the s-crap wages they pay only pay basic bills, those lucky enough to be employed by the new store will not have any spare money to spend elsewhere and even if they did, everywhere else will have shut down, so morrisons get a big slice of the wages back as well .
where the money would go around a town before, it goes in the pockets of one greedy corporation and stays there.
Creating jobs my !!!!!

Are you sure?

Just when I was a teenager (so we're going back to the late 90s here) I was employed at a corner shop for £2.70, rising to £3.20 an hour when I was 18. I later went to Tesco and my basic went up to £4.80 an hour plus time and a half on sundays (and double time on bank holidays).

There's a lot of criticisms one can levy at supermarkets but I don't believe that is one of them.

purch

There was a new Morrisons opened near me this time last year.

I remember a long queue at the local Jobcentre the day they started the recruitment for the store.

Anecdotally I have heard that the staff turnover since then has been huge, and the store are continually having to recruit more staff. I know 2 supervisors from the nearby Tesco's who went to Morrisons as Deputy Managers are now back at Tesco's.

Mrs_Bones

We've already lost a lot of local shops due to the general downturn, add on to that the ones which were knocked down to build the new Morrisons. The good ones we've got left such as butcher, fruit and veg, deli, bakery, florist, newsagents, even local cafe will now be in competition with the new giant supermarket. Some of us will still use the old stores but lets face it, the prognosis for them isn't good, they just won't be able to compete on price and marketing in the same way the supermarket can. In these troubled times money will talk and choice will be lost.

Puddleglum

I do wonder how far the new supermarket building in Britain can go. Generally speaking, there can be very few places left in Britain which are not within reasonably easy reach of a supermarket and people who live in the more remote places will probably have organised themselves to cope without easy access to a pasturised pinta. So any new supermarket building can only be diluting the existing profits and other than hindering the competitors slightly, not really make a great deal of a difference. We can only eat so much after all.

stonethrower

I wonder how many of these will be full time jobs.

dunstonh

A nation of shopkeepers.....

Not any more. The supermarkets killed them off. Now its a nation of part time shelf fillers and cashiers working in little more than a warehouse.

Road_Hog

Puddleglum wrote: »

I do wonder how far the new supermarket building in Britain can go.

It can go much further, because the real population level is much higher than the government is letting on.

"Consumption – that's the thing. Based on what we eat, one big supermarket chain reckons there are 80 million people living in the UK. The demand for food is a reliable indicator; as Sir Richard Branson says, you can have all the money in the world but you can only eat one lunch and one dinner."

The supermarkets couldn't keep building stores if there wasn't the demand for the products, otherwise all you do is what marketeers refer to as cannibalising the market.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/city-eye-facts-on-a-plate-our-population-is-at-least-77-million-395428.html

ILW

Why do people blame supermarkets for killing off local shops? It is the customers who stop using the local shops that are to blame. To my knowledge, nobody is forced to use Tesco instead of the retailers on the high street.