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Article: Not everyone likes a Pounds 3 festive dinner
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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MARC BOLLAND grabbed a bag of meat pasties. They're four for
Pounds 2. Then the Morrisons chief executive showed me some fresh
pasta. It's 69p. "Look at that. I can take you to the fish counter
and you can choose two lovely pieces of salmon fillet. Add some
cream and you will have a meal for two of fresh pasta with salmon in
a cream sauce for below Pounds 2 per person. You have to agree,
that's not bad."
I was meeting Bolland in the Morrisons store in Wimbledon. The
snob in me said "steady on, this is Morrisons". But the reality was
that -- on appearance at any rate -- the quality was hard to fault.
How does he do it? "It's a big secret," he said, laughing.
While Morrisons is performing well ...