Archive of all Asda articles – Page 5
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NewsDozens of Asda Just Essentials products unavailable online
In February 2022, Asda made a promise to stock its Smart Price and Farm Stores budget products in store and online
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NewsUnion claims Asda’s £30m for stores is ‘drop in the ocean’
The GMB told The Grocer they had calculated at least £50m in cuts had been carried out by January of this year
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Analysis & FeaturesWhere is Morrisons going right, as Asda is going wrong?
Morrisons’ CEO Rami Baitiéh has staged improvements on price and availability, while Asda is facing falling sales and staff walkouts
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Range PreviewHighlights of Asda’s new 540-strong Christmas 2024 range
Asda has unveiled a preview of its upcoming 540-product Christmas food range for 2024. Welcome to Christmas in July
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Comment & OpinionWill an Asda reset reclaim worker and shopper affections?
It is a dramatic but necessary move by Asda, with the pressure mounting on Mohsin Issa and his TDR Capital backers
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NewsAsda admits it 'has to improve' as it announces major store reset
Co-owners Mohsin Issa and TDR Capital are under pressure to do something to reverse its falling market share
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Comment & OpinionWhy supermarkets must scale up refillables at ‘frightening’ speed
Somebody had better tell Chancellor Rachel Reeves not to read the latest report by Wrap on the industry’s war on plastic
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NewsAsda rolls out new online ‘Store Assist’ picking technology
Asda said the solution was already “proving popular” with staff – 26,000 of whom had now been trained on 10,000 updated devices
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NewsAsda launches knife crime initiative to help protect kids
A pilot at the Sheffield Park Academy school will include a campaign at eight Asda stores
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NewsSupermarkets should sell 30% of products as refills by 2035, says Wrap
The guidance follows crunch talks earlier this month between supermarkets and suppliers after a series of setbacks to progress toward refillable and reusable packaging solutions
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NewsIceland looks internally to replace buying chief Andrew Staniland
Responsibility for buying at the supermarket will now pass to Paul Dhaliwal, who will take on the newly created role of chief commercial officer
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NewsAsda denies union claims as Wisbech staff call second strike
The strike, from 3am until 10pm on Friday 2 August, will follow a previous walk out by staff in March
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NewsLondoners better off than before the pandemic, says Asda tracker
Londoners’ average household disposable income rose to £351 per week in quarter two of this year – 3% up on the pre-pandemic peak of £340 in March 2021
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Range PreviewPreview Asda’s 500-strong ‘Exceptional’ premium range
Move over Finest, Specially Selected and Taste the Difference, there’s a new kid on the block
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Grocer 33Asda cheapest in Grocer 33 price comparison for third week on trot
Asda’s 68.75 total was £1.51 cheaper than the equivalent basket from nearest rival Sainsbury’s
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NewsRetailers gear up for weekend of sport with array of booze offers
An unsettled weather forecast hasn’t stopped the mults piling on the discounts
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NewsNando’s enters ketchup with peri-peri inspired tomato sauce
The NPD has launched exclusively into Asda
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NewsDoomed Asda plastic refill aisles making just £1,000 a week
Earlier this week Asda revealed it was to scrap its trials of refillable packaging technology, in a major blow to the industry’s war on plastic
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Comment & OpinionAsda’s move to scrap refills a sign of the crisis facing the industry’s war on plastic
Asda was always something of an unlikely poster child for the war on plastic
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Comment & OpinionCMA should investigate Aldi Price Match rather than loyalty
Tesco and Sainsbury’s remove items from Aldi Price Match when the discounter lowers the price further, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants