Asda news and analysis – Page 154
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Asda staff receive £15m windfall
More than 123,000 Asda store and depot workers are set to share a £15m annual performance-related bonus.The average payout for a full-time worker will be £174 but more than 40,000 staff could receive as much as £360, Asda said.“It's...
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Asda to sell £9 DVD player
Asda is to sell a DVD player for £9 - less than the average price of a DVD.The Durabrand DVD player was previously on sale for £17.84 but Asda will cut its price to £9 from today.“This is truly unbeatable value and puts our...
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Price Survey
This week Morrisons and Sainsbury's followed in Asda's footsteps by raising the price of Jacob's Creek Chardonnay by 33%. Last week Asda hiked the wine's price by the same amount, signalling the end of Christmas alcohol promotions. This...
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Availability
Asda Bearsden, Glasgow. 0 Asda provided everything on our shopper's list and offered help with packing his bags. An error-free receipt left the shopper happy and he noted a large number of promotions in the store, which was clean...
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Team up to save planet says Asda
Asda has pleaded for more collaboration between retailers to help save the planet in the wake of huge media announcements on the environment from its rivals. On Thursday Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy unveiled far-reaching plans to...
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This week a year ago the winner was...
Asda store manager Kevin Prince won our Top Store award this time last year after his Small Heath store in Birmingham impressed our mystery shopper with a clean shop and impressive levels of customer service. Prince left the store in March 2006...
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Asda advises on full scope of insurance
Asda is to become the first supermarket chain to offer its customers choice and independent advice on the full range of life insurance and income protection policies available on the UK market. In what it described as a "groundbreaking"...
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Morrisons in lead with price-cutting
Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda have been making all the big noise about new year price reductions - but Morrisons has quietly been beating them all, according to exclusive data from The Grocer Price Index. Morrisons has cut the cost of our...
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Condon takes marketing role at Tesco
James Condon, former head of global marketing for George at Asda, has joined Tesco as its new head of brand communications and trade planning. Condon joined Asda in September 2003 to take on the responsibility for marketing Asda's George...
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Doubt over Essentials' future as store closes
The future of Asda's Essentials format was thrown into doubt this week as the company confirmed the first store in the format was to close just 10 months after opening. The closure of the 8,000 sq ft Northampton store, which opened last...
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Pick rate report to put strain on Asda
An independent report raising concerns about pick rates at an Asda depot could have far-reaching implications for the grocery distribution industry. Last year, an independent ergonomics expert accessed Asda's Wigan depot to assess pick...
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Price Survey
Christmas alcohol promotions seem to be coming to an end, with Asda increasing the price of its 20-24 can box of Stella Artois by 20% this week, alongside a 33% hike in the price of Jacob's Creek Chardonnay. Elsewhere the price of Hardys Stamp...
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They've learnt how to do it
Asda's 53,000 sq ft Ashton store, the winner of this week's Top Store Award, had just benefited from a festive facelift when our shopper visited on the Friday before New Year's Eve. Work had been carried out to increase space in the store's...
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Bogof's week
This week came news that B&Q made candidates dance, sing and pull funny faces to secure a van driving job. You wouldn't see such frivolity at a supermarket, would you? Well, actually, yes. Suppliers to Asda were asked to dress up in costumes and...
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Availability
Asda Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester. 0 A full basket and impressive levels of customer service made Asda in Ashton-under-Lyne the clear winner of this week's Top Store Award. Our shopper also spotted a variety of tempting special...
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Availability
Asda Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey. 1 Asda provided everything on the list apart from single white grapefruit. Our shopper found the store clean and tidy but staff did not offer to pack goods. Only seven of the tills were open but...
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In Brief: Property venture; Strike is called off; Asda sues Leighton
Property venture Tesco has entered into a property joint venture with British Airways Pension Fund to release £445m from its UK property portfolio. The deal includes 16 Tesco stores. Strike is called...
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Asda puts Akkerman back in the running
Plans to build a giant commodity cheese plant in Cumbria look to be gaining pace following intervention by Asda. The Partners in Cheese project, lead by Dutch entrepreneur Ronald Akkerman, seemed to be foundering last month because dairy...
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Better Asda food pulls in 20 million
Asda is the first of the big four to declare its Christmas trading performance, claiming it bucked the poor Christmas retail trend with sales above expectations. Customer numbers were up year-on-year by more than one million to 20 million...
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Asda cheeky? You'd butter believe it
"What's the point of stocking both Utterly Butterly and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? It's only marge!"With an insouciant flourish, Asda's food trading director Darren Blackhurst explained his rationale for delisting similar products...