Christmas Traditions | Oranges for Stockings | Morrisons

Christmas Traditions - Oranges in Christmas Stockings Morrisons is aiming to revive the almost forgotten tradition of putting an orange into a Christmas stocking by giving 200,000 oranges to parents across the country and encouraging them to tell the story behind it ahead of Christmas Eve. This initiative is being rolled out after new research revealed that four out of five family households (79 per cent) no longer have oranges in their Christmas stockings – making it now an increasingly neglected Christmas tradition that is in danger of disappearing altogether. On Saturday 16th December, Morrisons will celebrating the season of goodwill and 200,000 oranges wrapped in Christmas tissue paper will be given to parents along with a story-card telling the history of the tradition – so that parents can read it to their children ahead of the big day. For the last two years the supermarket has helped to rekindle interest in great British Christmas traditions. In 2015 the supermarket gave away 50,000 sprigs of mistletoe to the nation’s festive romantics. Whilst in 2016 Morrisons brought back carols to its in-store playlist after 15 years, and handed out 100,000 Wonky Carrots for Rudolph. Take a look here at 5 Christmas Traditions to Bring Back for 2017: http://po.st/Oranges Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/morrisons