Editing Morrisons (section)

== Former operations ==

===Kiddicare===
In 2011, Morrisons bought children's retailer [[Kiddicare]] for £70&nbsp;million to give it the knowledge to sell clothing and homewares online.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Zoe |last1=Wood |first2=Alex |last2=Hawkes |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/feb/15/morrisons-buys-kiddicare-seventy-million |title=Morrisons buys Kiddicare for £70m |newspaper=The Guardian |date= 15 February 2011|access-date=17 March 2013 |location=London}}</ref> In 2012 10 former [[Best Buy Europe|Best Buy]] stores from the [[Carphone Warehouse]] were acquired to expand Kiddicare into retail stores.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16747160 |title=Morrisons buys Best Buy stores for Kiddicare expansion |work=BBC News |date=26 January 2012 |access-date=17 March 2013}}</ref> Kiddicare was sold to the Endless private equity firm for £2&nbsp;million in July 2014, and sold on to Worldstores two months later for an undisclosed sum.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.retail-week.com/technology/online-retail/kiddicare-bought-by-etailer-worldstores-just-two-months-after-endless-acquisition/5064739.article|title= Kiddicare bought by retailer Worldstores just two months after Endless acquisition|date= 30 September 2014|work=Retail Week|access-date=20 March 2015}}</ref>

===FreshDirect===
Morrisons purchased a 10% stake in New York-based online grocer [[FreshDirect]] for £31&nbsp;million in 2011. After having sent a team to New York to learn from the business ahead of the predicted launch in 2013, Morrisons began a home delivery initiative in January 2014. In March 2014 Morrisons CEO Dalton Phillips announced the company had agreed to sell its stake in FreshDirect due to financial difficulties the company was facing and, as it had set up its own online shopping site, it no longer needed FreshDirect.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26556924|title=Morrisons restructuring sparks fears of new price war|work=BBC News|date=13 March 2014|access-date=21 March 2015}}</ref> The sale was completed in August 2016 for £45&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-morrison-supermk-divestiture-idUKKCN10R1RN|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816180201/http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-morrison-supermk-divestiture-idUKKCN10R1RN|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 August 2016|title=UK supermarket Morrisons completes sale of Fresh Direct stake|access-date=18 August 2016}}</ref>

===Convenience stores===
[[File:Morrisons M Local store, Church Street, Liverpool.jpg|thumb|Morrisons&nbsp;M local, Church Street, [[Liverpool]]]]
The company operated a number of smaller stores called "Morrisons&nbsp;M Local" in major places such as [[Birmingham]], [[Manchester]], [[Cardiff]] and [[Bristol]]. These stores had a similar format to small [[Tesco Express]] and [[Sainsbury's Local]] stores, but included a wider range of ready-to-eat hot food such as pastries, coffee, rotisserie, porridge and also a salad bar. Items were supplied from nearby superstores and shoppers could also order foods, including fresh meat and fish.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.globalcstorefocus.com/cgi-bin/newsletter.pl?edition=201202&this_page=6 |title=Insight Research – Global Convenience Store Focus – Morrisons opens third M-local convenience store |publisher=Globalcstorefocus.com |date=16 January 2012 |access-date=17 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522000903/http://www.globalcstorefocus.com/cgi-bin/newsletter.pl?edition=201202&this_page=6 |archive-date=22 May 2013 |url-status=usurped  }}</ref>

A distribution centre in [[Feltham]], West London was acquired to provide a distribution network to the stores in London and [[South East England|the South East]] where there are relatively few Morrisons superstores.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=19153 |title=Morrisons plans London DC for convenience stores |publisher=Logistics Manager |date=6 September 2012 |access-date=17 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131229000501/http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=19153 |archive-date=29 December 2013 }}</ref>

Around 70 stores were opened by the end of 2013, boosted by the purchase of 7 [[Jessops]] and 49 [[Blockbuster LLC|Blockbuster]] stores from administrators.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.morrisons.co.uk/corporate/Media-centre/Corporate-news/Morrisons-acquires-Blockbuster-stores-for-convenience-expansion/ |title=acquires Blockbuster stores for convenience expansion |publisher=Morrisons |access-date=17 March 2013}}</ref> On 26 February 2013, a further six [[HMV]] stores were acquired from administrators.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.retailgazette.co.uk/articles/13134-morrisons-acquires-6-hmv-stores |title=Morrisons acquires 6 HMV stores |work=Retail Gazette |date=26 February 2013 |access-date=17 March 2013}}</ref> The M Local chain was sold to a private equity group in 2015 and rebranded [[My Local]], but entered administration itself less than a year later.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36667836|title=My Local enters administration with 1,000 jobs at risk|date=29 June 2016|work=BBC News|access-date=21 October 2016}}</ref>