Asda news and analysis – Page 161
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Non food war erupts
The bitter food pricing war between the multiple supermarkets is spilling over into non food with Tesco and Asda slashing prices as they both fight to convince consumers that they are the cheapest supermarket for non food. In a week where...
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Asda Pegler Way, Crawley5Our mystery shopper left the Asda store in Crawley very disappointed. He was unable to find five items on his shopping list. The "very unhelpful" staff pointed him in the general direction of goods,...
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Dolmio, Napolina do an Italian job in top 5 chart
Italian ingredients brands Dolmio and Napolina have both moved into the top five grocery chart this week with Dolmio having offers across three of the five retailers, favouring the 'x for y' mechanic in Asda and Sainsbury's and...
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Price Survey
Geoff Igharo Asda remains the price leader this week, but Tesco has drawn much closer than it did last week, when it dropped to a suprising fourth place on our pricing table. Tesco's basket came in at £40.81 this week, just 66p...
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Asda Handsworth Road, Sheffield1Asda's Handsworth Road store won our Top Store award, providing 32 out of 33 items on our shopping list this week. The cheapest Australian red wine was priced at £2.32, reduced from £2.82. However, it was...
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Asda vies for top spot with Kids Home range
Asda is jostling with Tesco for the number one spot in non food with the launch of a range of homewares specifically for the kids' market. Kids Home, which will sit alongside the newly rebranded George Home, will include a range of...
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"Yet another case of retailers taking the lead in delivering the health agenda while manufacturers appear furtive"
It's interesting that on the day Cadbury was all over the media with the news that the salmonella scare had cost it £20m, the Daily Express led with a story on Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda banning "killer" fats in their own label products. ...
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Asda Sheffield: a class act
When our mystery shopper visited Asda's Handsworth Road store in Sheffield, the store was clean, well-merchandised, the staff friendly and she had her shopping packed without asking. She said that she had a "thoroughly enjoyable experience" at...
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Price Survey
Gaelle Walker The gap between Asda and Tesco's total basket prices has remained achingly wide this week. At £46.50 the cost of our 33 items at Tesco came to a whopping £3.17 more expensive than at Asda, a fact which is keeping...
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Asda Craven Way, Bristol0Asda's Craven Way store provided all 33 items on our shopping list this week, but only just. A half-price offer on Pepsi had meant that this product was out of stock in the drinks aisle. Our shopper was lucky to...
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Asda delivers Bounty baby-care packs
Asda is to be the first supermarket to distribute Bounty baby product sample packs. From September, almost one million Mums-to-Be and Baby's Progress packs will be handed out to new and prospective parents at stores. The packs have...
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Hodgson to replace Megson at Waitrose
Richard Hodgson, brand and marketing director for Asda, has been appointed as the replacement for Angela Megson as director of buying for Waitrose.Hodgson takes up his new role in the autumn. He has worked at Asda for a number of years...
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Risk to drivers leads to disruption in deliveries
Asda and Sainsbury are to pull online deliveries in areas across the country where drivers feel intimidated, following a move by both supermarkets to drop the service in parts of Edinburgh this month.They have both stopped delivering to...
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Buyers' views Thumbs up... but some reservations
Andrew Palfrey general manager frozen food, Asda"We are always keen to support commercially viable NPD. If the new range had real appeal to customers' desires to lead healthy lifestyles, and the right level of marketing support,...
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Asda Kirkintilloch Road, Glasgow1Own label fresh penne pasta and 300g bottles of Johnson's baby lotion are not sold at Asda's Bishopbrigs store in Glasgow. Our shopper was only able to collect 30 items as the store was also out of stock...
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Asda trials return of butcher counter
Asda is introducing old-style butchery departments into five of its stores as a pilot scheme after customers called for the return of the fresh meats counter.Comments posted in-store bemoaned the lack of cuts of meat from qualified...
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Asda reveals sub-branding for George
Asda is rolling out its pricing sub-brands across its newly re-named George Home range.The products, which were launched under the brand in April, are now to be packaged as Smart Price for value items, George for mid-tier goods...
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Asda slammed by disabled drivers
Disability rights campaigners are accusing supermarkets of ignoring the needs of disabled customers at self-service petrol stations.Mobilise, a disabled drivers charity, said the provision of assistance to disabled drivers requiring fuel...
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Pricing gap
The pricing gap between the top four supermarkets is particularly narrow this week, with just 66p separating the fourth cheapest supermarket from first place.The cost of our 33 items from Asda came to £41 - once again, the lowest-priced...