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Sam Barker

Morrisons hands out £40,000 to customers - including a year's free shopping

Supermarket Morrisons is giving away £40,000 and is offering five customers the chance to win an entire year’s worth of online shopping for free.

Morrisons is also handing out thousands of other prizes ranging from £5 to £500 throughout January and February.

The supermarket is giving away a year of free shopping to five winners - capped at £5,200.

Ten people will get £500 towards their online shop, 50 people will get £100 and 1,000 shoppers will get £5.

To enter, customers have to shop online at morrisons.com before February 27 and they'll automatically be entered into the prize draw.

To qualify, customers must be signed up to the MyMorrisons App , be a UK resident and aged 18 or over. Winners will be contacted via email or phone from February 28.

Every order customers place before the closing date will be counted as a separate entry into the competition.

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Morrisons now has almost 500 supermarkets across the country (Getty Images)

All prizes are valid to redeem between March 7, 2022 until March 6, 2023.

The offer has come at a welcome time for shoppers as the cost of living is rising - and that includes food prices.

According to the Office for National Statistics, the cost of an average basket of groceries rose by 4.2 percent in the year to December - and many of us have noticed the hike in cost.

The cost of fresh meat has soared - with the cost of lamb chops rising nearly 9% per kilo, from an average of £13.46 to £14.65.

Meanwhile, other household items such as milk, wholemeal or white bread are also more expensive.

And the price of a 500g tub of margarine has shot up 31%, from £1.35 to £1.77.

Helen Dickinson of trade body British Retail Consortium warns: “The trajectory for consumer prices is very clear: they will continue to rise and at a faster rate.”

Morrisons has agreed to be snapped up by American financial firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R).

But the UK’s competition watchdog is examining the £7billion takeover of Morrisons over worries it could mean higher petrol prices for motorists.

The Competition and Markets Authority is worried that fuel costs may rise.

This is because not only would CD&R own all Morrisons' 335 petrol forecourts, but it also owns the Motor Fuel Group, with 900.

If the CD&R takeover of Morrisons goes through as it is, the company would control more than 1,200 of the 8,000 petrol stations in the UK .

The UK competition watchdog says any part of Morrisons has to stay separate from Motor Fuel Group until it has decided how the deal would affect drivers.

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