Morrisons

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. One morning, a regular noticed something peculiar in Morrisons’ checkout aisle—a bag of groceries seemed to be moving on its own. The items inside shuffled around as if rearranging themselves while nobody watched. Curious, the regular followed the shifting bag and found it leading him towards the dairy section. There, a delivery driver was rearranging shelves with remarkable efficiency—turning out to be his next-door neighbor, who’d been secretly organizing grocery trips for years. Everyone had a good laugh over coffee that morning.

2. In the dairy section one day, a regular noticed an odd occurrence—milk bottles were spontaneously rearranging themselves on the shelf. Curious, the man watched as each bottle neatly aligned itself in rows, even though no one was around. The next day, he brought his friend along, and together they waited until closing time. Finally, the store closed, leaving only the milk section with its perfect order. That night, a delivery driver joked that maybe Morrisons had hired invisible robots for inventory. But when a neighbor popped into the shop early morning for cereal, she found every other item untouched—except for the milk aisle, which still gleamed like it had been meticulously arranged by an unseen hand. The legend of Morrisons’ self-sorting dairy section became a local joke, but nobody dared test it again.

3. In the produce section one afternoon, a delivery driver asked aloud: ‘Who’s been rearranging these bananas?’ A nearby shopper overheard and joked, ‘Probably Morris himself, making sure they’re all facing the right way!’ The delivery driver laughed it off, knowing full well that only humans could be so meticulous. That night, as he unpacked his groceries at home, he found an unexpected note stuck to a banana: “Thanks for helping us keep things tidy!” Turns out, someone had been playing a prank on everyone.

4. In the frozen food aisle, a little boy pointed excitedly at the ice cream display. ‘Mom,’ he whispered, ‘why is everyone standing so still?’ His mom looked around and smiled. ‘They’re just frozen yogurt samples, honey.’ The boy giggled, ‘But Mom, they look like they could be good at stand-up comedy!’