Morrisons cancels window cleaning to battle declining sales

In an email seen by The Telegraph, Maintenance Management Ltd (MML), which handles Morrisons facilities, told contractors that the retailer is facing a tough end of year in respect of their budgetary position.

The window-cleaning ban, which was launched at the start of December, will run until February 2, which marks the end of Morrisons financial year.

Last month, Morrisons reported a disappointing 2.4pc drop in like-for-like sales for its third quarter, but pledged that full-year profits were still in line with expectations.

A spokesman for Morrisons said the budgetary position referred to in the email was the store maintenance budget, not the companys wider financial position.

Morrisons said: Morrisons has decided to reduce window cleaning at stores because it is less important to customers at the darkest time of the year, because the water that runs off windows can be a slippage hazard in the winter, and so we can spend money on maintenance activity that our customers do care about at this time of year.

We will be restoring the normal service in the spring and the reduction does not affect windows easily seen by customers."

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Morrisons cancels window cleaning to battle declining sales