Asda news and analysis – Page 139
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Redundancies as Asda axes pizza contract
Asda's main pizza maker is braced for 400 redundancies after the retailer cancelled its supply deal.The retailer will end its deal with Paramount Foods in September. About 144 redundancies are expected in the pizza base factory in...
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Mario's ice cream wins Asda listing
Welsh ice cream maker Mario’s has moved into retail after 20 years of supplying the foodservice and hospitality sectors.
The Carmarthenshire based company began supplying 15 Asda stores in Wales this week with its one litre ‘Dyffryn Tywi’… -
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Asda considers Arran deliveries using ferry
The Scottish isles are emerging as the latest battleground in the fight between supermarkets, as the number of opportunities in towns on the UK mainland dwindles.
Arran, off the west coast of Scotland, has a population of under 5,000 and… -
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After the 2p sausage, it's Asda's 50p mince
Asda's mission to ignore pressure from the meat industry and continue to offer the British public cheap food has continued with the launch of a 50p pack of mince. The supermarket this week announced a two-week promotion slashing the price...
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Price Survey
They are separated by the faintest of margins, but Asda has narrowly undercut Morrisons to record its fourth week as cheapest retailer. Asda's £52.32 basket was just 9p less than Morrisons' total, although they did not match as many...
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No such thing as a quick retail fix
M&S and Asda have both embarked on major new ranging and sourcing strategies. But will they work?This month I thought I'd look at a couple of The Grocer headlines from the past few weeks that appear, at face value, to have the ability to...
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Availability
Asda Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire 0 Our shopper was highly impressed by the standard of tidiness at this bright and spacious Asda. The aisles were free from shelf stackers and packing trolleys and staff were polite and quick to...
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The sky's the limit as Asda eyes global supply deals
Carrefour and Tesco both started doing it five years ago. Now Asda is getting in on the act too. With the full might of parent company Wal-Mart behind it, Asda has entered into negotiations with big brands to thrash out global supply deals with...
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The Grocer 33: Availability award 2008
It was another close call on stock availability, but Asda edged ahead of last year's champion Morrisons to add the prize for availability to its The Grocer 33 pricing gong. Although Morrisons achieved three more full baskets over the...
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Price Survey
It may be a new year for The Grocer 33 but the story remains the same.Asda has again produced the cheapest basket - undercutting second place Morrisons by more than £2 to secure its third consecutive win.Asda made a number of...
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Price Survey
No retailer came close to matching Asda's remarkable domination of our pricing survey this year. This was Asda's eleventh consecutive year as the UK's cheapest retailer, with its consistently low prices winning it 35 of the past 50...
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Norman: stand up to regulatory fists
Former Asda chairman and Tory MP Archie Norman claimed the current breed of politicians and regulators are the most reactionary yet and retailers need to stay ahead of the tide of regulation. In a provocative speech at The Grocer Gold...
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Dinner with Joss Stone? Nah, too busy
Imagine the scene. Singer Joss Stone is sitting alone in her hotel room in Rogers, Arkansas, bored. Her performance at the Wal-Mart shareholders meeting isn't for a couple of days and she's got nothing to do. She knows the Asda crowd is...
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Availability
Asda Livingston, West Lothian1Customer service was one of the highlights of this huge Asda. A sales assistant proved his worth when he cheerfully went to search the stockroom for loose new potatoes, only to find the entire...
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Asda Prices to go Global
As Asda was crowned Britain's cheapest supermarket for a record-breaking 11th year running at The Grocer Gold Awards this week, The Grocer learned of plans by the Leeds-based supermarket to lower the price of branded goods still further by...
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Asda in historic win at supermarket 'Oscars'
Asda has made history, the first supermarket ever to win the three Grocer 33 awards - for price, service and availability - at The Grocer Gold Awards 2008, held at The Dorchester, London last night.It was the 11th year that Asda scooped the...
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Letter of the week
I read in disbelief the article claiming that Asda's innovative Pay Me Early system (The Grocer, 10 May, p3 & p4) had created "chaos" and "sparked panic among suppliers".Pay Me Early and our invoice tracking system, Where's My Invoice,...
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Revival of frozen continues with two branded launches
There was further evidence of the renaissance of the frozen food category this week as two major launches were announced.A Belfast-based supplier of own-label frozen party food to Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda is launching its first...
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A triumph for the underdog - Q&A and Availability
Sainsbury's Cwmbran branch in South Wales is smaller, older and less-suited to the working class town than the Asda across the road, but it is this week's Top Store thanks to getting the basics right. Our shopper was delighted by the warm and...
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Asda gets council OK for first wind turbine
Asda is undertaking a raft of green measures as it moves towards the target set out by its parent Wal-Mart of becoming powered entirely by renewable energy. This week, Asda moved a step closer to gaining planning permission for the first...