MORRISONS axed over 4,000 jobs across its UK stores last year, it has been revealed.
The supermarket giant reduced its workforce by thousands, with employee headcount dropping by 4,900, according to a report by the Yorkshire Post.
Morrisons‘ parent company, Market Topco Limited, published its latest annual results for the year to October 26, 2025.
While it shows that revenue for the retailer grew by £400million from a previous £15.3billion, the report reflects the drastic loss in staff.
Average employee headcount dropped from 101,144 to 96,232 over the year with 4,200 less employees in actual Morrisons stores.
There were also around 500 less members of staff in manufacturing roles and 200 less in distribution.
Sharing an explanation for the drop, Morrisons pointed towards retail staff restructurings and downsizing of its bakery business.
A Morrisons spokesperson told the Yorkshire Post: “Colleague numbers in the year ending October 2025 primarily reflect the impact of the closure of the newspaper home delivery service in convenience, the restructuring of the retail people team and the down-sizing of the Rathbones bakery business.
“There was no additional redundancy programme in stores, where numbers were only reduced by not replacing those who had chosen to leave.”
It comes after Morrisons warned earlier this year that hundreds more jobs could be axed from its head office.
The brand said that the “difficult but necessary” decision was made amid plans to introduce a more AI-focussed business model.
A spokesperson for the retailer confirmed the restructure in a statement given to The Sun in April.
“During 2025, Morrisons commenced a long-term programme to re-engineer certain of its business functions, to concentrate on the core activities that our customers value, streamline processes and structures, automate a number of manual tasks and capitalise on the potential of data and AI to improve performance,” the representative said.
“This multi-year programme will ensure our central functions are better placed to serve our stores and strengthen our ability to deliver for customers in the current very challenging market conditions.”
The statement continued: “As we evolve and adapt, we are proposing to make some changes to a number of areas within our central structure.
“This will involve making some tough but necessary decisions, which will impact on colleagues in our head office, where we are proposing to place a number of roles at risk of redundancy.
“We understand this will be difficult news for these colleagues and will be offering them our full support, including helping them to find alternative roles elsewhere in the business wherever we can.”
The Morrisons report comes after it was confirmed that it had been overtaken by Lidl in market share earlier this year.
It was previously pipped by Aldi in 2022, having once held a firm place alongside Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Asda in the British supermarket “Big Four”.
The Sun has approached Morrisons for comment.