The chief executive said that customer satisfaction had increased, thanks to better service and an improved range of products Matt Alexander/PAWm Morrison has delivered a fourth consecutive Christmas of like-for-like sales growth as its turnaround continues to gain further ground. The supermarket group said that its like-for-like sales across the group’s core supermarket business rose by 0.6 per cent in the nine-week period to January 6. This was a slightly better than analysts’ consensus forecasts of a 0.5 per cent rise and comes despite the retailer being up against challenging comparatives, having delivered 3.6 per cent growth last year. Across the group, including its wholesale business, which supplies McColl’s and Amazon, like-for-like sales were up 3.6 per cent. Wholesale retail sales growth of 3 per cent was below the market expectations of about 3.6 per cent; it slowed following the annualisation of some of McColl’s…

Source: The Times January 08, 2019 09:00 UTC