All Asda articles – Page 142
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NewsSupermarkets deny introducing compulsory fuel pre-payments
Supermarkets have refuted claims that consumers could soon find themselves having to enter a payment card at their garages’ fuel pumps before they fill up.
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Asda slashes pay-as-you-go tariff
Asda has unveiled a new flat-rate pay-as-you-go mobile phone tariff, which it claims will make it the cheapest service of its kind in the UK.
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Opinion
The grocers shouldn’t rely on price alone
Supermarkets Tesco and Asda will be fighting tooth and nail this weekend to make sure customers choose to visit their stores to do the weekly shop.
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Asda reveals strong second quarter growth
Asda has revealed its coastal stores have traded 'phenomenally well' this summer with Britons holidaying at home, as the grocer unveils like for like sales, excluding petrol, up 5.5 per cent in its second quarter.
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Opinion
Cheap and cheerful?
Back to school used to involve a few sacred things – making sure you had a new pencil case to fit your protractor and compass, having your feet sized in Clarks for your new shoes and going to the specialist school uniform shop to get kitted out.
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Music and DVD sales continue to slide
The number of shoppers who buy music and DVD products regularly has fallen for the fourth year in a row, according to Verdict Research.
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Spending on school meals and uniforms soars
The cost for UK families of sending a child to school soared to 1,077 for the past school year to June.
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Asda launches £4 school uniform
Asda will launch a 4 school uniform, its lowest price to date, sparking a new price war among the grocers.
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Asda slashes petrol prices again
Asda has charged ahead in the petrol price war, slashing its prices by 2p for unleaded petrol and 4p for diesel across all of its forecourts with effect from tomorrow.
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Asda extends use of Odin brand management tool to non-food
Asda has rolled out Odin’s brand management software to non-food.
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Government threatens to call time on free plastic bags
Supermarkets have been warned that they must cut the number of plastic bags they distribute by 70 per cent by spring 2009 or be forced to start charging for them.
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Grocers cut petrol prices
Supermarkets Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s will lower petrol prices, in a move prompted by falling oil prices.
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Families’ disposable income still shrinking
The average family is 9 a week worse off compared with June last year, Asda’s income tracker has found.
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Opinion
Co-op should focus on what it does best
The long-awaited Co-op-Somerfield deal was finally completed this week with little pomp and ceremony.
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Asda launches price-cuts weekend
Asda is to slash the price of a dozen core groceries this weekend as shoppers start to feel the pinch towards the end of the month.
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Asda pencils in September relaunch date for George
Asda will relaunch its George clothing brand in September as it seeks to make the label the UK’s biggest-selling fashion brand by volume before the end of 2011.
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Asda non-food chief to leave
Asda non-food trading director Peter Pritchard is to leave the grocer, as chief executive Andy Bond reshuffles the management team.
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Grocers’ shares tumble as shoppers embrace discounters
TNS data showing rapid market share growth by hard discounters contributed to a fall in the share prices of quoted grocers. Meanwhile, general stores slipped still further as trading difficulties – real and imagined – undermined sentiment.
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Opinion
Price alone won’t save the day
Retailers must back up low prices with good quality if they want to attract today’s consumer
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Asda plans mixed-use Barnet development
Supermarket retailer Asda is preparing to submit plans for a 100 million regeneration of the former Transco site at New Barnet in Hertfordshire.