Latest Asda News and Analysis – Page 127
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Price Survey - 1st March 2008
Asda's attempt to record a fourth week as cheapest retailer has been foiled by Morrisons as the price gap between the big four becomes narrower than ever. Only 62p separated Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Tesco from each other after they matched...
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Asda gets tougher on underage drink
Asda will stop selling alcohol 24 hours a day and will impose Challenge 25 restrictions on alcohol sales in all its stores, The Grocer understands.The retailer is due to reveal the measures - and others - on Monday in a new initiative...
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Asda launches Brazilian limes
Asda has launched Fairtrade limes from Brazil for Fairtrade Fortnight.The Brazilian limes are in Asda stores nationwide from this week and will be available until the end of May. There will then be a gap in availability before Egyptian...
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McKeith's healthy line goes into Asda
Diet guru Gillian McKeith is launching what she claims is the healthiest food and drink range on the market into Asda this April. Ambitious plans have been set out to create a £40m brand in two years. The range includes cereal bars,...
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What the papers said - 23rd February 2008
Asda is launching Income Tracker, a monthly barometer of the nation's finances, to highlight the importance of offering its shoppers low prices. In the Daily Mail, Asda chief executive Andy Bond said it would "burst the myth" that value...
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Price Survey - 23rd February 2008
Morrisons came close to hijacking Asda's plans of claiming a third week as cheapest retailer but it did not make quite enough price cuts. Morrisons' £44.14 basket was just 16p more expensive than Asda's, and low enough to knock Tesco back into third...
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Price Survey - 16th February 2008
Asda has kept a tight grip on the cheapest retailer title this week, but Tesco fought off stiff competition to clinch second place. The competition between Morrisons and Tesco remained fierce this week, with just 10p separating the totals compared...
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Asda nets rewards of online - Q&A and Availability
Asda announced plans this week to make its online delivery service available to 97% of UK homes by the end of the year, and its Wigan branch, this week's Top Store, gives a clue as to why, with local use of the national website driving growth across...
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Price Survey - 9th February 2008
Morrisons' reign as Britain's cheapest retailer didn't last long. Asda reclaimed its crown this week with a £44.13 basket, while Sainsbury's leapfrogged Tesco and Morrisons to snatch second place. Despite doubling the price of minced beef, Asda...
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Venison set for mainstream
Venison has become the fastest-growing meat product in Asda, the retailer has revealed. Sales had soared and the meat would be one of the major food trends this year, said Asda meat buyer Jim Viggars. "It's healthy, easy and...
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Waitrose/Co-op in Somerfield bid
Waitrose and The Co-operative Group have teamed up to launch a joint bid for the Somerfield grocery chain, The Grocer has learnt. The two retailers will go head-to-head with Asda - currently the favourite to buy the retailer - and four or...
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Price Survey - 2nd February 2008
Morrisons has toppled Asda from its perch to claim the title of UK's cheapest retailer for the first time since 29 September. The only serious challenger for the crown over recent months, Morrisons finally produced the cheapest basket at £43.82 -...
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Price Survey
Asda has passed the 100-day mark as the UK's cheapest retailer - while Tesco dropped from second place to fourth after its price hikes outweighed its cuts.Five of Asda's items were the cheapest in The Grocer 33 list this week - by...
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Availability
Asda Falkirk0This busy store was well-merchandised and provided all 33 items on the list. All 17 checkouts were open and processing queues with impressive speed. Our shopper spoke to several members of staff who were all were...
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Asda is fined over car park barrier death
Asda has been fined £225,000 after a customer was killed by a car park barrier crashing into his car.Kenneth Farr, 37, suffered fatal head injuries when the unsecured steel barrier was blown into his windscreen by a gust of wind in May...
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Commission must act to stop consolidation
Sir; The sale of Somerfield is the latest major step in the consolidation of the grocery market ('Asda tipped to buy Somerfield for £2bn', The Grocer, 19 January, p4).Speculation suggests that bidders are three of the existing big four...
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Blackhurst is tipped for Cheesewright job
Darren Blackhurst is emerging as the most obvious internal candidate to replace David Cheesewright as Asda's chief operations officer.Blackhurst joined Asda's executive board as food trading director in January 2006 from Tesco, where he...
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Opinion - "Who will buy Somerfield? Asda's Andy Bond dismissed smaller format stores but he is reviewing the situation"
It's no longer a question of if or when, now the cat's out the bag, the only question seems who. Assuming it can't be carved up (very hard to do), who would buy Somerfield, with its £4.6bn sales and its 908-strong portfolio of c-stores, forecourts...
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Asda tipped to buy Somerfield for £2bn
Asda has emerged as the frontrunner in the race to buy high-street grocery chain Somerfield, The Grocer has learnt. Somerfield hired the bank Citigroup this week after receiving "some unsolicited approaches", according to a source close...
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Price Survey - 19th January 2008
Price-slashing Tesco has thrown everything into the mix to match Asda's food prices this week, but it was not enough to prevent Asda recording its 14th week as cheapest retailer. Tesco cut the prices of six items on this week's list, five of which...