Asda news and analysis – Page 144
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Asda records highest price increases of big multiples
Asda may have won our cheapest retailer award for the 11th consecutive year but its prices have increased more than any other retailer over the past 12 months, according to exclusive data from The Grocer.The Grocer's extensive database,...
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Asda's big friendly giant
Asda’s Havant Supercentre in Hampshire may be one of the retailer’s largest in the UK, but it has learnt how to use its size to its advantage, earning it this week’s Top Store award.
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Asda Havant, Hampshire0The shelves were being restocked when our shopper visited this Supercentre. But that didn't stop staff offering to help our shopper locate the Sacla' pesto and Parma ham - although the required sizes were...
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Call for Irish planning overhaul to cut prices
An urgent overhaul of the retail and planning regimes in the Irish Republic is needed to allow retailers such as Asda to enter the market, according to the National Consumer Agency.A major shake-up would attract new players into the...
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Price Survey
It was five out of five for Asda this week as it undercut its nearest rival by just 67p to scoop this week's cheapest retailer award - with the help of some pork chops. Despite increasing their price by £1.28 - the biggest hike of the...
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The sky's the limit as Asda eyes global supply deals
Carrefour and Tesco both started doing it five years ago. Now Asda is getting in on the act too. With the full might of parent company Wal-Mart behind it, Asda has entered into negotiations with big brands to thrash out global supply deals with...
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Asda Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire 0 Our shopper was highly impressed by the standard of tidiness at this bright and spacious Asda. The aisles were free from shelf stackers and packing trolleys and staff were polite and quick to...
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No such thing as a quick retail fix
M&S and Asda have both embarked on major new ranging and sourcing strategies. But will they work?This month I thought I'd look at a couple of The Grocer headlines from the past few weeks that appear, at face value, to have the ability to...
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Price Survey
They are separated by the faintest of margins, but Asda has narrowly undercut Morrisons to record its fourth week as cheapest retailer. Asda's £52.32 basket was just 9p less than Morrisons' total, although they did not match as many...
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The Grocer 33: Availability award 2008
It was another close call on stock availability, but Asda edged ahead of last year's champion Morrisons to add the prize for availability to its The Grocer 33 pricing gong. Although Morrisons achieved three more full baskets over the...
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Asda Prices to go Global
As Asda was crowned Britain's cheapest supermarket for a record-breaking 11th year running at The Grocer Gold Awards this week, The Grocer learned of plans by the Leeds-based supermarket to lower the price of branded goods still further by...
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Asda Livingston, West Lothian1Customer service was one of the highlights of this huge Asda. A sales assistant proved his worth when he cheerfully went to search the stockroom for loose new potatoes, only to find the entire...
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Dinner with Joss Stone? Nah, too busy
Imagine the scene. Singer Joss Stone is sitting alone in her hotel room in Rogers, Arkansas, bored. Her performance at the Wal-Mart shareholders meeting isn't for a couple of days and she's got nothing to do. She knows the Asda crowd is...
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Norman: stand up to regulatory fists
Former Asda chairman and Tory MP Archie Norman claimed the current breed of politicians and regulators are the most reactionary yet and retailers need to stay ahead of the tide of regulation. In a provocative speech at The Grocer Gold...
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Price Survey
It may be a new year for The Grocer 33 but the story remains the same.Asda has again produced the cheapest basket - undercutting second place Morrisons by more than £2 to secure its third consecutive win.Asda made a number of...
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Price Survey
No retailer came close to matching Asda's remarkable domination of our pricing survey this year. This was Asda's eleventh consecutive year as the UK's cheapest retailer, with its consistently low prices winning it 35 of the past 50...
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Asda in historic win at supermarket 'Oscars'
Asda has made history, the first supermarket ever to win the three Grocer 33 awards - for price, service and availability - at The Grocer Gold Awards 2008, held at The Dorchester, London last night.It was the 11th year that Asda scooped the...
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Letter of the week
I read in disbelief the article claiming that Asda's innovative Pay Me Early system (The Grocer, 10 May, p3 & p4) had created "chaos" and "sparked panic among suppliers".Pay Me Early and our invoice tracking system, Where's My Invoice,...
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First the chicken for £2 and now: a 2p sausage
Asda has come under fire from the pigmeat industry for launching a sausage that costs just 2p. The Smartprice sausages, which are being sold in an eight-pack for 16p, are part of an Asda promotion running this week to give a family of four a...
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Price Survey - 7th June 2008
Asda emerged victorious after another tussle with Morrisons to produce the cheapest basket. Just 36p separated their totals, but Morrisons - which entered the price war this week by slashing 2,000 prices - was undercut by Asda on 14 items. Asda's...