Latest Asda News and Analysis – Page 143
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Asda continues to outpace the competition and has delivered the cheapest shopping basket for the fifth week in a row, this time at £51.13. Asda was quite active with offers this week.The company had promotions on nine of the 33 items in this...
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Tesco was the cheapest store this week at £55.98. Tesco's win built on last week's second-placed finish and ended its long spell out of the top position.Asda dropped to second place this week after its five-week run in the top spot....
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Living 'has legs' and is set for double figures
The number of Asda's non food Living stores could go well into double figures next year, it emerged this week, with the retailer admitting it must get cleverer about targeting new towns with its formats.It also plans its first foray with...
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Bogof's week
David Hasselhoff took time out of his busy schedule this week to pop into Asda HQ in Leeds in order to promote his autobiography. However, according to Bogof's spies, the king of cheesy US TV was less Hoff than Huff. Publicists had arranged...
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Asda Stowmarket, Suffolk0 Our mystery shopper at the Asda store in Stowmarket, Suffolk was able to find all but two of the items she was looking for this week. The store did not stock Parozone bleach, although it offered an own...
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Asda The Shires Centre, Trowbridge, Wiltshire1 The Asda store in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, was sold out of the 200g bag of Doritos corn chips when our shopper visited. The store also did not stock cheap own label butter and...
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Asda: our organics will be a shock to Waitrose
Asda will be stealing customers from Waitrose when it triples its organic range later this year and starts rolling out compostable packaging, its head of corporate social responsibility claimed this week.Ian Bowles said Asda's organic...
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Tesco, Asda join initiative to boost glass recycling market
Tesco and Asda have signed up to an initiative designed to reduce the amount of glass waste from the wine industry.The Waste and Resources Action Programme (Wrap), which outlined proposals for its lightweighting initiative at the annual...
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Asda is the cheapest supermarket for the fourth time in as many weeks, with a basket price of £55.08. Our results also show that while Somerfield has fallen back down to sixth place on our table, Tesco has still not been able to claw...
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Delisted supplier off to Commission
Ferndale Foods, the supplier controversially delisted by Asda last year, is to include comments on the relationship between suppliers and the major supermarkets in a submission to the Competition Commission.The company is due to go...
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Asda West Bridgford, Nottingham1 Our mystery shopper at the Asda store on Loughborough Road in West Bridgford, Nottingham said that the store looked "well stocked" and that staff were busy refilling shelves. However, she was...
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Asda system designed to help kids buy 'green' food for lunch
Asda is to launch a payment card designed to help parents ensure their children don't spend their lunch money on junk food.The new Green Card is still at the development stage, but the plan is for parents to charge it Oyster Card-style...
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Asda set to challenge JS, Tesco with national online roll-out
Asda is launching an offensive on Sainsbury's and Tesco's online market share with plans to take its service national from next year. Asda.com is currently serviced by 80 stores across the country. However, this will be increased to 100...
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Asda pushes for exit from fisheries policy
Asda has joined calls for Britain's withdrawal from the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) in order to protect the livelihoods of Scottish fishermen and preserve fish stocks in the North Sea.Gordon Maddan, regulatory affairs manager at Asda,...
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Asda trebles shelf space for organics
Asda has told The Grocer it is planning big changes to its dairy category following two major reviews.The shelf space for organic produce will be trebled with lines pulled together into a dedicated cabinet at the end of this month. A...
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Asda evicts clothing recyclers from car parks
Asda evicts clothing recyclers from car parksAsda has evicted a network of clothing recyclers from its car parks following allegations that they were not registered charities.The retailer's solicitors wrote to Planet Aid, a...
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Stirred not shaken
Where is the Andy Bond who delivered "that speech" at IGD's annual convention last October? Since gamely shouldering Asda's share of the blame for the industry's "bland, amorphous, sameness", the dynamic leader that these comments seemed to...
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Asda is the UK's cheapest supermarket for the third week in a row. In a tight race, Asda's basket price of £46.42 came in barely cheaper than Somerfield's total of £46.86. Tesco was third at £47.24, or 1.8% more than Asda, followed by Morrisons,...
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Asda Gibson Way, Gateshead 0 The Asda on Gibson Way in Gateshead was large and easy to shop in. However, our mystery shopper was not able to find all the items on his shopping list. The store did not stock the 16-pack of Twix...
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Second opinion The industry needs to come together in a sincere attempt to tackle sustainability and reduce packaging waste, says Jack Sinclair
Andy Bond, head of Asda, has called for a co-ordinated industry approach to sustainability and is reported to be inviting all the chief executives of the UK's manufacturers and retailers to a conference to discuss the issues and agree a way...