Latest Asda News and Analysis – Page 125
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Another batch of unbeatable prices has widened the gap between Asda and its rivals as it marks its third consecutive week as cheapest retailer.Once again Tesco came closest to matching its total - but Asda's winning basket was a...
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Asda Weston-super-Mare0The aisles were packed with shoppers at this Asda branch and staff were busily restocking shelves to keep up with demand. There were a few packing trolleys in various aisles but they were being unloaded...
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Asda loses supplier of a third of its potatoes
Scottish potato specialist Taypack has ended a £32m-a-year contract with Asda after a decade supplying the retailer in the hope of brokering better terms and a more sustainable price for its produce.The company, which supplied the...
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this week a year ago The winner was...
South Yorkshire also claimed the Top Store prize this time last year, when Asda Handsworth in Sheffield dazzled our shopper with excellent customer service.Last year's scorching early spring prompted a shortage of stock of garden...
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Retailers plan national staff blacklist
Retailers have joined forces to create a national database that will blacklist staff for stealing, forgery and fraud.HMV, Harrods, Littlewoods, Mothercare and Selfridges have signed up to the scheme, and Asda will take part if Sainsbury's...
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Short-termism will wreck quality meat production
Leading retailers need a strategy - and quick - to deal with structural changes in supply chains if quality British meat supply is to surviveOur three largest retailers - Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's - refuse to tell The Grocer whether...
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Indian restaurant chain enters retail
A Leicestershire Indian restaurant chain is launching a range of frozen ready meals in Asda this month.The family-owned business set up The Tiffin Food Company to develop the eight-strong curry brand following customer...
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Price Survey - 03 May 2008
Asda snatched the cheapest retailer title back from Morrisons as the price gap between them and the other retailers widened this week. Asda climbed to top spot with a £46.73 basket, £3.78 cheaper than the third most expensive retailer, Tesco,...
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Letter of the week - Clock ticking on pig industry collapse
You reported in The Grocer's Meat and Fish supplement (19 April, p22) that neither Tesco, Asda nor Sainsbury's responded to your question as to whether the potential collapse of the UK pig industry was of any consequence to their business. As a...
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Price Survey - 26th April 2008
The title of cheapest retailer has been hard to hang on to over the past four weeks with each of the big four taking a turn. This week, it was Morrisons' moment in the sun. Its £43.41 basket was 56p cheaper than last week's winner Asda. But compared...
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Asda launches £5 mobile phone
Asda has launched what it claims is Britain's lowest pay as you go mobile phone at just £5.It is selling more than 50,000 handsets and customers will be able to choose from four different phones. Asda claims it is the fastest growing...
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Own-label switch for Asda supplier
Cornish milk producer Trewithen Dairy has switched from supplying branded to own-label local milk to Asda in a move described as a first by the supermarket.Trewithen has been supplying Asda with locally sourced branded milk for the past...
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Fenmarc in administration
Supermarket vegetable and ready meal supplier Fenmarc Prepared Foods went into administration this week with the loss of 60 jobs.Fenmarc, which supplies own-label ready meals to Asda, cut its headcount to 130 at its site in...
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Price Survey - 19th April 2008
Sainsbury's tenure as cheapest retailer has been cut short by a resurgent Asda. After just a week at the top of The Grocer 33 price survey, Sainsbury's fell to fourth place, with a £52.64 basket, £1. 27 more expensive than Asda's winning basket....
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Price hikes must reach pig farmers, says Bond
Asda chief executive Andy Bond has told its meat processors they must pass at least some of the higher prices they are now being paid on to farmers.In a letter to Bpex, Bond told pig farmers that Asda supported the sector and understood...
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Asda's local sourcing will 'set benchmark'
Asda has unveiled a new food sourcing initiative it claims will act as a model for the whole supermarket industry.The retailer has joined forces with Kent-based food distributor Bank Farm to supply more than 300 local products to five...
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Asda falls short of huge windfall
Here's some advice for anyone who likes to bet on the gees-gees using their own names as a guide - don't. Staff at Asda's Perry Bar store in Birmingham joined the thousands of Simons across the country who backed a namesake in the Grand...
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Price Survey - 12th April 2008
Sainsbury's has stormed up the chart to become cheapest retailer for the first time in 11 months. The retailer's triumph comes after a turbulent six weeks in which Asda, Tesco and Morrisons have each scooped the title two times. But recent basket...
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star order
Asda.com has won the Star Order award for shopping excellence for the second consecutive quarter.Our shopper logged into Asda's website without any problems and found it easy to navigate and locate all 33 products on our shopping list....
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Sainsbury's: on the road to restoring greatness?
As straplines go it was as much an admission of past failing as a bold statement of intent. The 'Making Sainsbury's Great Again' plan vowed to address the issues that saw Sainsbury's outmanoeuvred by first Tesco and then Asda as the former...