Morrisons is shutting around 100 company-owned Morrisons Daily stores, starting consultations with affected colleagues on 2026-05-21 and planning to close the sites over the next few months.

The supermarket said it would try to find roles for impacted colleagues elsewhere in its supermarkets or manufacturing business “where possible,” but the move still puts hundreds of jobs in play across one of its most visible convenience formats. Morrisons said the stores marked for closure were the “most challenged” in its estate and that they were loss-making.

All of the branches set to close were former McColl’s stores acquired by Morrisons in the 2022 purchase of the fascia. The closures are the latest major shift in Morrisons’ convenience business in the space of three months, after convenience director Matt Heslop suddenly left in February following less than a year in the role and the company announced a major restructure of its convenience buying team.

That overhaul merged Morrisons Daily commercial and support functions with its supermarket buying team, creating a single division under group trading director Andrew Staniland. It also effectively axed the Morrisons Daily trading team and cost around 100 jobs. Group retail director Martin Dawson now oversees Morrisons Daily stores.

The latest cuts land alongside a wider squeeze on the business. In April, Morrisons said it would cut headcount at its Hilmore House headquarters by around 8% and said it was ramping up its use of AI across the company. It also said its debt had fallen by 46% since the start of chief executive Rami Baitiéh’s turnaround plan, leaving £3.1bn on the books.

Convenience has still been a major source of growth for Morrisons, and Baitiéh has set out an aim to open hundreds of Morrisons Daily stores over the next few years. The company says the closures do not change that direction and that it remains committed to and on track with its convenience growth strategy, even as it moves to sell some company-owned shops to franchisees and pushes the vast majority of new openings into franchise stores.

The tension in Morrisons’ plan is plain: it is trimming back its weakest shops while trying to build a bigger convenience presence at the same time. That makes the next few months a test of whether the chain can cut losses without slowing the expansion it says is still central to the business.