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Sept 2021
Retirement party between the tills for Asda colleagues of 33 years
Two colleagues who started working at Asda Harrogate at the same time 33 years ago have shared a retirement party between their favourite tills.
Sheila Fitzsimmons and Jean Lofthouse always served next to each other on checkouts five and six.
Their Asda colleagues decorated the tills with balloons and bunting for the celebration marking their departures.
Debs Harpin, customer trading manager at Asda Harrogate, said:
Customers who had got to know Ms Fitzsimmons and Ms Lofthouse over the years brought in gifts and colleagues came in on their day off to wish the pair good luck.
Neil Barker, a service host at Harrogate Asda who worked with the pair for about five years, said:
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