Christmas boost for Morrisons

Morrisons has reported like-for-like retail sales growth, including store and online sales, of 0.6% for the Christmas period. For the nine weeks to 6 January 2019, the supermarket said Morrisons.com sales contributed 0.4% to the overall figure. Overall total sales growth, including fuel and wholesale, was up by 3.8%. Morrisons chief executive David Potts said: “This is Morrisons’ fourth consecutive Christmas of like-for-like sales growth during the turnaround. “Our performance shows colleagues are listening hard and responding to customers, providing consistently great value and good quality when it matters most. “Morrisons is well set to keep improving the shopping trip and become more and more relevant for more customers”.   To send feedback, e-mail louise.dransfield@egi.co.uk or tweet @DransfieldL or @estatesgazette