Basic shop disciplines deliver Morrisons a merrier Christmas

Use of an automated system for reordering stock is one of the ways the supermarket has stopped shooting itself in the footThank goodness Morrisons never succumbed to the briefly fashionable, but always absurd, idea that shareholders should flog the freehold-rich company to a crew of private equity barons to conduct a salvage operation. Morrisons was always a better business than that, as the injection of a few basic retailing disciplines as demonstrated. At Christmas 2015, when Aldi and Lidl wer