Asda news and analysis – Page 157
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English apples set for bumper sales season
It is shaping up to be a bumper year for British apples, as supermarkets report the fruit is flying off the shelves. Asda claimed it was the first of the multiples to offer English apples from this year's harvest by getting Cox's on the...
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Take action over government organic threat
Your recent article stating that Asda was committed to extending its organic range, ('Asda: our organics will be a shock to Waitrose', The Grocer, 23 September, p12) was further evidence that organics have at last become mainstream and shaken...
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Asda switches to equal pay
Asda has scrapped its under-18 pay rate and plans to pay all staff the same rate, regardless of age.The supermarket group said that the move would cost it £1.7m, with each of its 5,000 workers under the age of 18 taking home an extra £300 a...
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Price Survey
Tesco has failed to hold on to the crown of cheapest supermarket, after it broke Asda's five-week-long spell at the top last week. Asda's total of £49.04 was the cheapest of the six supermarkets in our survey this week. Tesco was second at...
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Availability
Asda Eastbourne, East Sussex0 The Asda store at Sovereign Harbour in Eastbourne, East Sussex, did very well on availability, considering that it was going through a major refit and the roof of the building was leaking after...
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Letter of the week Dave Cheesewright, chief operating officer, Asda
I write in response to the letter 'Wal-Mart UK isn't working', which appeared in your publication last week (Letters, The Grocer, 16 September, p28). It is perhaps worth pointing out that since Asda became part of Wal-Mart in 1999 our...
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In Brief: Minimalist approach; South African launch; Asda sponsors; FirstCape launches
Minimalist approach Regional brewer Batemans has given its eight-strong bottled beer range a minimalist look to help consumer choice. The beers will have new labels, giving details of their flavour characteristics. The lighter...
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Asda to build timber frame store
Asda has announced plans to build a timber frame store in Shaw, Oldham.Asda said that the 35,000 sq ft store, which is expected to open in February 2007, would also have a 'saw-tooth' roof designed to capture light and heat from the...
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Price Survey
Asda continues to outpace the competition and has delivered the cheapest shopping basket for the fifth week in a row, this time at £51.13. Asda was quite active with offers this week.The company had promotions on nine of the 33 items in this...
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Price Survey
Tesco was the cheapest store this week at £55.98. Tesco's win built on last week's second-placed finish and ended its long spell out of the top position.Asda dropped to second place this week after its five-week run in the top spot....
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Living 'has legs' and is set for double figures
The number of Asda's non food Living stores could go well into double figures next year, it emerged this week, with the retailer admitting it must get cleverer about targeting new towns with its formats.It also plans its first foray with...
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Bogof's week
David Hasselhoff took time out of his busy schedule this week to pop into Asda HQ in Leeds in order to promote his autobiography. However, according to Bogof's spies, the king of cheesy US TV was less Hoff than Huff. Publicists had arranged...
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Availability
Asda The Shires Centre, Trowbridge, Wiltshire1 The Asda store in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, was sold out of the 200g bag of Doritos corn chips when our shopper visited. The store also did not stock cheap own label butter and...
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Asda Stowmarket, Suffolk0 Our mystery shopper at the Asda store in Stowmarket, Suffolk was able to find all but two of the items she was looking for this week. The store did not stock Parozone bleach, although it offered an own...
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Tesco, Asda join initiative to boost glass recycling market
Tesco and Asda have signed up to an initiative designed to reduce the amount of glass waste from the wine industry.The Waste and Resources Action Programme (Wrap), which outlined proposals for its lightweighting initiative at the annual...
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Asda: our organics will be a shock to Waitrose
Asda will be stealing customers from Waitrose when it triples its organic range later this year and starts rolling out compostable packaging, its head of corporate social responsibility claimed this week.Ian Bowles said Asda's organic...
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Price Survey
Asda is the cheapest supermarket for the fourth time in as many weeks, with a basket price of £55.08. Our results also show that while Somerfield has fallen back down to sixth place on our table, Tesco has still not been able to claw...
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Delisted supplier off to Commission
Ferndale Foods, the supplier controversially delisted by Asda last year, is to include comments on the relationship between suppliers and the major supermarkets in a submission to the Competition Commission.The company is due to go...
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Availability
Asda West Bridgford, Nottingham1 Our mystery shopper at the Asda store on Loughborough Road in West Bridgford, Nottingham said that the store looked "well stocked" and that staff were busy refilling shelves. However, she was...
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Asda system designed to help kids buy 'green' food for lunch
Asda is to launch a payment card designed to help parents ensure their children don't spend their lunch money on junk food.The new Green Card is still at the development stage, but the plan is for parents to charge it Oyster Card-style...