A supermarket giant has made an unwelcome change to convenience stores – leaving shoppers gutted. Morrisons has confirmed a huge change has been made to dozens of Morrisons Daily stores.

Customers will now be charged to withdraw cash from ATMs at some Morrisons convenience stores. The ATMs are provided by an external provider, so pricing decisions are not controlled by the store and are understood to be part of a trial in a handful of Morrisons Daily stores, the Sun reports. One shopper took to Facebook to complain, saying: “It’s free until the end of the month then they will charge. I have just rang them and they have confirmed it. This is very unfair and a precedent of free withdrawals has been set for many, many years. Time to write to your MP. This is another tax on people and your money.” The number of cash machines across the UK fell by five per cent over the past year, leaving 42,403 ATMs in operation by December 2025, according to new figures from LINK, which runs the country’s ATM network.

The number of free-to-use machines has dropped particularly sharply. There are now 33,710 free ATMs, down from 52,040 in 2019, highlighting the scale of the long-term decline.

The typical UK adult withdrew £1,352 from cash machines in 2025, a 5% drop from £1,424 the previous year.

ATM usage has also fallen, with a total of 832 million cash withdrawals made last year, which is 87 million fewer than in 2024, a drop of 9%.

Ron Delnevo, chair and spokesperson of the Payment Choice Alliance, has launched a scathing attack on the pace of ATM closures, calculating that approximately seven machines have been removed every single day since 2018.

Mr Delveno said: “19 thousand free-to-use ATMs lost in the UK since 1 January 2018. That means around SEVEN ATMS have been ripped out every single day.”

It comes after Morrisons revealed annual losses of £381 million for the year to October 26 after it faced a £281 million interest bill on its debt.