Asda news and analysis – Page 183
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Congested Asda pulls basket down
Asda has checked in the cheapest full basket so far for The Grocer 33's new look shopping list at £39.09. The chain provided two of this week's five full baskets while Sainsbury took the Storewatch title for its customer service. A better deal on...
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Chiefs: no GM appetite
Bosses at Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury and Safeway have told the government that there is no real appetite for putting GM foods back on the shelves. In a meeting held at DEFRA on Wednesday, chief executives at the top four multiples told DEFRA secretary...
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Chiefs: no GM appetite
Bosses at Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury and Safeway have told the government that there is no real appetite for putting GM foods back on the shelves. In a meeting held at DEFRA on Wednesday, chief executives at the top four multiples told DEFRA...
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What are your responsibilities?
Asda's Stores in the Community strategy encourages staff to help the neighbourhood where their stores are locate. This can be done by fundraising events and other community projects. I also have a team which finds local sourcing opportunities. ...
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Foreigners can forget it
Asda is claiming to be the first retailer to stock British carrots all year round. Working with Scottish growers in Perthshire, Angus, and Aberdeenshire, the retailer said it had extended the home-grown season from 46 weeks of the year to 52....
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Asda's basket full of accolades
Asda has this week been named as the country’s favourite supermarket chain by consumers, ensuring it picked up The Grocer’s inaugural Gold Award for The Grocer of the Year. The award was based on research carried out by marketing information...
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Drinks in a party mood
Morrisons has continued its upward movement and takes the number one spot, standing a full five percentage points ahead of Asda which has moved two places to number two. Tesco remains stable at number three. The success of Asda and Morrisons is...
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Asda has announced it is to be the enabling development' be
While the development will not be up and running until 2005, subject to planning permission, it looks like a great location for Asda. CACI predicts the store will turn into one of the company's top five based on turnover. While it is likely to...
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Asda's RFID trials aid chain integrity
Asda has revealed initial results of a Home Office sponsored trial on radio frequency identification technology conducted last year. In the three-month project, the first trial anywhere of RFID at item level, more than 7,000 CDs from EMI were...
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Asda@tHome compensation order
Asda has been ordered to pay compensation to 68 staff members following the closure of its Croydon Asda@tHome depot in 2002. The employees were told their jobs at the depot would be lost in January last year and they were given 90 days' pay. ...
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Gold for Asda, Booths
Siân Harrington Shoppers have named Asda the country's favourite supermarket retailer as part of a new awards scheme launched by this magazine. As you will read on page 38 of this week's issue, the grocer of the year award in association...
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Asda has this week been named as the country's favourite sup
Shoppers were asked to rank retailers as best or second best on five key attributes: price, range, quality, service and shelf stocks. They were asked to choose between Asda, the Co-op, Kwik Save, Iceland, Marks and Spencer, Morrisons, Safeway,...
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Asda goes for local drive
The new Asda in Crawley, West Sussex – to open in August – is appealing for businesses in the area to come forward with local products that they think shoppers want to be sold at the store.Store manager John Ponsford said: "Stocking products...
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Asda looks to simply George
Asda is to open and trial two standalone George clothing stores this September.The stores, which will be set up in Leeds and Croydon in spaces of about 10,000 sq ft, will be trialled for at least a year before any further shops are...
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raising the
availability stakes Congratulations to Asda and Morrisons for scooping the top accolades in our annual review of The Grocer 33 weekly shopping survey. You will notice from our reports that we are not just recognising which retailer is best...
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The beautiful gain
Can supermarkets escape the out-of-town planning stranglehold by piggybacking on stadium developments? Liz Hamsom assesses breakthroughs by Asda and Tesco.It should have been the perfect signing. When it became obvious cash-strapped football...
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Brands are churning
Morrisons leaps to the top of the chart from fifth place, closely followed by Asda which moves up from fourth place to second and less than one percentage point stands between them. Tesco, Safeway and Sainsbury's all drop by two places. ...
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Asda cut up over Parma ham
Asda has lost its long-running battle to sell Parma ham under the Parma brand, when the meat is sliced and packaged in the Britain.The European Court of Justice has ruled that Parma ham can only be sliced in the region where they are...
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Asda shines in tough market
Anne Bruce Asda continues to clock up strong sales growth and grab market share from rivals, it emerged this week, while Safeway and Somerfield are struggling to make any headway in a tough sector. Wal-Mart said first quarter like-for-like...
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Revolution for Asda network
Asda says it is revolutionising its distribution network with a £200m cash injection for new distribution facilities and changes to its recycling process. Asda's distribution director David Gibbons said a one million sq ft national distribution...