Morrisons Retail staff hours over last few months

My brother works part time in Morrisons on checkouts & the last few months his gripe has been the number of staff have been reduced instore, mostly on checkouts leading to long queus, irate customers & not enough people to manage when issues arise.

Store management say they have had hours cutdown from head office & need to work within those hours so can't make more staff available.

I am wondering if this is across all Morrisons stores & if if this has something to do with Morrisons being taken over.

Read on news that another outfit has made a bid for Morrisons which directors are agreeing to.