Asda news and analysis – Page 149
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"Spotting and seizing opportunity on a grand scale, that's what singles out the number ones"
It's 10 years since we launched The Grocer 33, and every year the cheapest supermarket has been Asda. What an achievement. Since 1998, the Leeds-based group has been bought by Wal-Mart, lost Norman and Leighton, and hit some fairly hard times...
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Success through talking shop - Q&A and availability
"Manchester's answer to the United Nations" is how our shopper described the Asda in Hulme, winner of this week's Top Store award. The 44,000 sq ft outlet boasts a wonderfully diverse range of products to cater for the various ethnic groups in the...
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Asda buys bananas direct from growers
Asda is planning a direct sourcing trial with bananas, buying direct from the grower without using an importer.The fruit will still be ripened in the UK by Mack Multiples, but, starting from July, Asda has placed the order for 8,000 to...
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Eco-friendly egg is rolled out by Asda
Asda is to roll out the country's first ecological egg to all its English and Welsh stores.From Monday (11 June), branded Respectful Eggs from a handful of low-carbon farms in Lincolnshire will go on sale in 280 Asda stores. It follows a...
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Leighton: 'It's unique that all four players are doing well'
Former Asda boss Allan Leighton said this week he believed the UK's grocery industry was healthier than it had ever been - and rubbished suggestions that Asda parent company Wal-Mart was unhappy with current chief executive Andy Bond's...
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our man from drip Don Pumsey - 9th June 2007
To Leeds, on the invitation of the crimson-topped Bond, Andy Bond, ahead of his eco-friendly jolly to Arkansas and the agm of the Bentonville basher. A generous gesture indeed: not only did the industry's own shrinking violet find time in a diary...
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Price Survey - 9th June 2007
Asda is this week's cheapest retailer as well as the winner of our Top Store award - a double whammy that has helped it scoop the coveted title of cheapest retailer for the tenth time in a row (see p26). But there will be no problem if Asda's top...
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The Grocer 100 Index
Asda remains the UK's cheapest supermarket in The Grocer 100 price survey, and it's actually increasing its lead Asda is the UK's cheapest supermarket according to the latest Grocer 100 price survey, significantly increasing its...
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A most constructive attitude - Q&A and Availability
A section of the car-park is closed off, various products are not in their usual places and there are construction workers in the aisles. Despite undergoing a major refurbishment, the Asda store in Taunton, Somerset, wins our Top Store of the week...
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Asda stock control rapped as retailer lands in court again
Repeated selling of out-of-date food has landed Asda in hot water in Wales, with Trading Standards claiming the supermarket’s stock control procedures are not working.
Asda was in court in Abergavenny in the same week that Tesco and… -
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Uncovering the truth about excess packaging concerns
An initiative that encouraged shoppers to return examples of excess packaging to Asda stores has provided useful information on how the public feels about the issueOur customers tell us they don't want to see their spuds strangled in...
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Milk falls foul ofad rules
The absurdity of the FSA's Nutrient Profiling Model was thrown into sharp relief again this week when it emerged Asda had been forced to drop whole milk from its latest TV adverts because it breaches Ofcom's rules on advertising food to...
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Asda is cheapest chain for decade
Asda chief executive Andy Bond and his colleagues will be celebrating this weekend after being crowned Britain's cheapest supermarket for an amazing tenth year running.The Leeds-based retailer provided the cheapest shopping list for 32...
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Asda changes mind and sells monkfish
Monkfish is set to return to Asda shelves just three months after the supermarket removed it because it was not considered a sustainably caught species.Scottish fishermen hailed the u-turn as a victory and a vote of confidence in the way...
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Asda ditches CD singles
Asda is to stop selling CD singles due to lack of demand for the product.The retailer said it would axe singles as stocks ran out and would instead sell CD albums at £7.97 each.“We're saying goodbye to one of the most important...
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Why FSA's fishy findings could cost the industry
The shocking thing about the FSA's findings is not the deception itself - there's clearly money to be made from passing cheaper fish off as its more expensive wild cousin. But rather that established major retailers, including Asda, Sainsbury's...
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New funds to drive growth of price comparison website
Price comparison website Mysupermarket.co.uk is set to bring in revenue for the first time - and is gearing up for a European roll-out next year.The site, which compares prices at Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Ocado, and is claimed to...
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Isostar's boost for breakfast
Sports nutrition brand Isostar is muscling in on the breakfast cereal market.Isostar Power Breakfast Cereal will be on shelf in Waitrose, Asda and Morrisons stores this month initially, with other outlets to follow. A blend of...
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Asda sets the highest standards - Q&A and Availability
As Sheffield United drop out of the Premiership, workers at the city's Asda outlet in Handsworth can at least be buoyed by winning our Top Store award this week. The 120,000 sq ft supercentre offered a full Grocer 33 basket and displayed an...
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multiples activists or Windbags?
Supermarket chains are tripping over each other these days to stress their environmental credentials. In the words of Asda's Andy Bond, "green is the new black." Even Morrisons - never seen as the most proactive company - changed its daunting...