Published:03 July 2017
From today (Monday 3rd July), more than half a million shoppers in the North East will have a new choice of grocery delivery service as Morrisons launches home delivery in the region.
The supermarket has created 41 new jobs - customer assistants and team leaders - specifically to fulfil the online orders.
- The Morrisons service will offer one-hour rather than two-hour delivery slots and food prepared by its expert foodmakers. The supermarket’s distinctive vans will begin delivering groceries to homes from Sunderland in the north, down to Middlesbrough and Darlington in the south of the region, from 8.00am each day.
- One of shoppers’ biggest concerns when shopping online is freshness, so Morrisons will be offering a fresh check where customers will be able to confirm the freshness of the products before they accept them.
- Matt Kelleher, Morrisons' Online & Digital Director, said: “We listened to customers in the North East and they told us that they would like the option to order their shopping online, and have it delivered to their home. Our home delivery service will be the closest thing to actually being in the store and selecting the items yourself.”