25,000 shoppers affected as Morrisons sells service and makes 1,700 redundant

The employees were told by letter that their services are no longer required

Morrisons has made 1,700 people redundant across the UK after selling a home delivery operation. The supermarket chain inherited newspaper rounds when it bought McColl’s Retail Group in 2022.

As many as 25,000 households got their daily paper from Morrisons Daily, largely employing young people for less than eight hours a week. But the retail giant has sold its home delivery operation to News Team Group (NTG) for an undisclosed sum - ending what for many teenagers was their first paid job.

Their rounds have been taken over by delivery drivers working for NTG, which Morrisons says is "a more efficient service". The paperboys and girls are understood to have been informed by letter - although one says he turned