Address: Bridgewater Shopping Centre, Erskine, Scotland
| Opening hours |
Store |
Cafe |
| Mon/Tue/Wed/ |
08:00 – 20:00 |
08:00 – 19:00 |
| Thursday |
08:00 – 21:00 |
08:00 – 20:00 |
| Friday |
08:00 – 20:00 |
08:00 – 19:00 |
| Saturday |
08:00 – 20:00 |
08:00 – 19:00 |
| Sunday |
09:00 – 19:00 |
09:00 – 18:00 |
Area: The new 25,000 sq ft store offers the unique Market Street format and a high level of service, with eight fresh food counters and more people preparing more food in store than any other retailer.
Key features
Eight fresh food areas with more people preparing more food in store than any other retailer:
• Market Street: is a retail experience unique to Morrisons where all fresh food, much of it prepared in store, is stocked and sold. It contains a number of areas, each with its own personality:
• Family Butcher: A friendly ‘real’ butcher able to cut and prepare meat the traditional way, offering a larger variety of cuts than any other supermarket.
• Your Fishmonger: Trained fishmongers on hand all day to fillet and prepare any of our fish, plus advise on the best buys, choices and preparation ideas.
• The Bakery: Craft bakers baking bread in small batches throughout the day so you can buy freshly baked bread.
• Fresh To Go: Making salads and sandwiches in store from scratch using only fresh ingredients.
• The Cake Shop: Packed full of freshly prepared cakes, doughnuts and cream cakes, filled in store throughout the day.
• Oven Baked: Offering roast chickens, spare ribs and sausages, and a wide range of sweet and savoury pies, all cooked in store and served from the oven.
• Deli & Deli Express: With a range of cooked meats, cheeses, olives, and extensive range of British and continental products.
• Greengrocer: Where our trained greengrocers can offer advice on fresh fruit and vegetables, salads, fresh flowers and indoor plants.
Other features include:
• Health & Beauty: A comprehensive range of health and beauty products and fragrances.
• Home & Leisure: Collections of soft furnishings, towels, bed sets, cushions, tableware, cookware and utensils.
• My Café: With 110 seats and offering an extensive variety of freshly prepared and cooked food, plus a wide assortment of hot and cold drinks.
• Recycling facilities for plastic carrier bags
• Facilities for our disabled shoppers
• Baby Changing facilities
• 24 hour Cash Machines outside the store
Colleagues
Employing 289 colleagues and creating 160 new jobs, the Erskine store has one member of staff per 100 sq ft of shop floor sales area, with 15 specialists on hand to help customers with professional knowledge and skills. There are five bakers, five butchers, three fishmongers, one greengrocer and one beers, wines and spirits manager.
Manager
Russell’s career with Morrisons originated in Paisley, working as a student with Safeway, over 23 years ago. Since then he has worked across 11 locations in a variety of positions in central Scotland. Russell has been Store General Manager in six stores and this will be his second time working in Erskine as General Manager.
Suppliers
All stores in the Greater Glasgow area sell products from suppliers in and around the area:
Lees snowballs/confectionery
Tunnocks biscuits
Tennents lager
Bells pies and gingerbread
Scottish leader whisky
Warburtons bread (made in Glasgow)
Mothers Pride bread and potato scones (made in Glasgow)
Kingdom cakes
Highland Crowdie soft cheese
Bartletts potatoes
Glenns vodka
Baxters soups
Barrs soft drinks
Marshalls pastas and sauces
MacB soft drinks
Communities
The Sunday Mail Great Scot Award
We are currently in our third year of sponsorship of The Sunday Mail Great Scot Awards. We actively encourage our shoppers to put forward someone they know who has been an inspiration with their acts of kindness, courage or willingness to go that little bit further for other people. Nominations for the 17th annual awards have been made across the 50 Morrisons stores in Scotland. As part of the Great Scot Awards we established a new ‘Community Champions’ award, to recognise individuals or groups who work tirelessly to improve their local community.
A finalist in this year’s line up for the Community Champion award is Isabel McCue from Glasgow for the outstanding work she has done in setting up ‘Theatre Nemo’ to help people who suffer with mental health problems. It now runs workshops/programmes in psychiatric hospitals, prisons and community halls to encourage good mental health by relieving boredom, forging friendships and building self esteem.
Charity Support
Morrisons is a keen supporter of local charities and organisations. We facilitate charity collections and bag packs in store so that local charities can raise vital funds for their causes. In addition, we donated gifts in kind to the value of £20,000 to local Scottish charities and raised over £150,000 for Breast Cancer Campaigns through our Scottish stores in 2006. Our 2007 Charity of the Year is Asthma UK.
Working with the Community
An example of a community project undertaken by Morrisons is the Healthy Tuck Shop initiative that was rolled out with a number of Scottish schools in 2006. Morrisons helped to create a business studies lesson which gave young students the information needed to start and run their own Healthy Tuck Shop. Once the lessons were completed, Morrisons supplied produce and a smoothie maker to each school to contribute towards a successful project.
Caroline Drain, a teacher at Burgh Primary School in Rutherglen said: “As well as the health benefits of this project, the children are also running the tuck shop as a business with profits from sales going towards purchasing further stock and school funds. This experience will be hugely beneficial in giving an understanding of how a company operates and the issues it faces.”