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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Sarah Butler

Is private equity tearing the soul out of Morrisons supermarket?

A woman with a multicoloured umbrellas walking past a branch of Morrisons
Morrisons’ new owners ‘paid too much and now they have to claw it back’, according to one senior former employee. Photograph: Niklas Halle’n/AFP/Getty Images

‘We all say he would be turning in his grave. It is not what it was,” says one former member of staff outside the Girlington branch of Morrisons in Bradford.

On the streets of the West Yorkshire city that Sir Ken Morrison helped put on the map, the mood surrounding Britain’s fifth-biggest supermarket chain is decidedly glum.

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