Morrisons workers in Dumbarton are set to be offered voluntary redundancy, as the supermarket axes its home delivery department in the town.
The Bradford based chain - who opened a new store in the former Waitrose unit in Helensburgh last year - confirmed to the Lennox that they would be phasing out home delivery operations at the Dumbarton store from October “to meet customer demand.”
A spokesperson continued: “All colleagues within the affected home delivery department will be offered redeployment within the same or nearby store or site.
“At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we rapidly grew our home delivery service to serve the many customers who moved from shopping in store to online.
“As we enter this next phase of the pandemic and with many restrictions now eased, we must now adapt and make some changes to the size of our online operation to meet our customer demands.
“From October, we plan to close online home delivery in our Dumbarton store.
“We will continue to maintain the same service levels including the number of customers and postcodes we deliver to, through our existing home delivery stores as well as our fulfillment centres.
“All colleagues affected by these proposed changes will be given the opportunity to either move into an alternative role within our business or apply for voluntary redundancy.
“As part of this consultation process we will be offering all hourly paid colleagues within affected stores the opportunity to also apply for voluntary redundancy.”
