Asda news and analysis – Page 190

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    Asda @t Home plans extras

    2002-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Asda is exploring ways to utilise its home shopping delivery fleet to offer a mini backhauling exercise. Options being explored include a video or catalogue returns system. Asda @t Home head of trading Chris Hodgson said: "This is something for...

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    SUMMER CRECHE FOR ASDA STAFF

    2002-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Asda is experimenting with a summer holiday creche scheme for staff at its Ashton store in Manchester. Kids R Us @ Asda can cater for up to 32 children at a time at a cost of £10 a day each ­ charged in half-day sessions of £5. An Asda ...

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    Mr Morrison regrets he's unable to pack any more

    2002-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Tesco at Coatbridge, in Strathclyde, beat off competition from Asda, Morrisons and Safeway to claim this week's cheapest full basket at £37.09. The Tesco team north of the border clocked up full marks on their operational duties, and provided the...

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    ­And where the rest fell down

    2002-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Asda Date of shopping trip: 7.6.02 Time taken in store: 85 mins Time of shopping trip: 11.05 Time taken at checkout: 5 mins ...

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    ­And where the rest fell down

    2002-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Asda Date of shopping trip: 28.6.02 Time taken in store: 60 mins Time of shopping trip: 13.03 Time taken at checkout: 11 mins ...

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    ­And where the rest fell down

    2002-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Asda Date of shopping trip: 12.7.02 Time taken in store: 83 minsHartlepool Time of shopping trip: 10.02 Time taken at checkout: 5 mins ...

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    Tesco is to open a standalone Express c-store in East Witter

    2002-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Sainsbury is launching a car insurance product as it powers up its financial services to ward off competitors such as Tesco, Asda and Marks and Spencer. The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs committee has criticised DEFRA management as incapable...

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    For stores not giving things away, Waitrose is cheapest

    2002-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Waitrose in Brighton, Asda in Hartlepool and Somerfield in Ilkeston checked in full baskets this week. Technically, Asda had the cheapest basket but it failed to charge for the mushrooms and the cheese was cheaper than the price on the label....

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    Alcoholic drinks refuses to budge as categories jostle for p

    2002-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Asda jumps from third place to the top of the chart this week with a lead of six percentage points, forcing Morrisons into second place. Safeway has dropped one position to number three. Alcoholic drinks is the strongest category within Asda and...

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    Ellis to control Holsten Pils

    2002-07-13T00:00:00Z

    Holsten UK has promoted Chris Ellis to director of sales, off-trade, to continue to drive the growth of key brand Holsten Pils. Ellis was previously national account controller for retail. Before joining Holsten UK, he was business manager for Asda...

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    Asda customers turn George regulars

    2002-07-13T00:00:00Z

    Almost one in three Asda customers now regularly shops at its George clothing arm, the chain has claimed. Asda George md Andy Bond said the percentage of Asda customers shopping at George had risen from 13% at the start of last year to 30%. A...

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    Alcoholic drinks lose their taste for activity and Asda slip

    2002-07-13T00:00:00Z

    Morrisons remains at the top of the fascia chart for the second week running, extending its lead to six percentage points. Safeway has moved up from number three to number two with a surge of activity, forcing Asda down to third position. In...

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    Asda's brief encounter comes to grief as Morrisons stacks 'e

    2002-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Morrisons reclaims the top spot in the retailer chart, just pushing Asda down to number two. Much of the success of Morrisons is due to the wide variety of promotions featured in store using floor stacks and side stacks to great effect. Promotions...

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    Asda fanfares million new shoppers a year

    2002-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Asda is pulling in a million new shoppers through its doors a year as it opens new stores and improves its offer, according to chief operating officer Tony de Nunzio. The chain's stores were so busy, he said, that Asda's biggest challenge was...

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    Alarms bells that hacked off Asda

    2002-07-06T00:00:00Z

    They say never work with animals, children and, er, journalists. And they are right. If we are around, things are bound to go wrong. Your PowerPoint presentation will not work, for instance, or your food demo will end in disaster. Pity poor old...

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    Congestion and elusive stock add up to week of headaches

    2002-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Hunt the product was a game giving our shoppers the biggest headache this week. At Asda bacon was on offer but the shelf where it should have been was bare. By a sheer fluke, our shopper spotted a whole stack in a completely different area where...

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    Morrisons bows to Asda while Stella topples top brand Coke

    2002-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Morrisons is finally ousted from the top of the fascia chart as Asda steals ahead by three percentage points to take the number one spot. Asda continues with a particularly strong alcoholic drinks section, most noticeably featuring price promotions...

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    Asda impresses at Eastlands and it also comes in cheapest

    2002-06-29T00:00:00Z

    The new Asda at Eastlands certainly won over our shopper this week. It supplied the cheapest full basket at £37.20 and would have been 20p cheaper if its regular eight-rasher pack of bacon had been stocked. Inside an amazing range of food and non...

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    DEFRA won't accept defeat in Asda produce tussle

    2002-06-29T00:00:00Z

    DEFRA has blasted reports that Asda's High Court victory over EU regulations on fruit and veg was a "victory for common sense". DEFRA took Asda to Portsmouth Magistrates Court last November, accusing it of breaking EU marketing rules by selling...

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    PRICE AND AVAILABILITY

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

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