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RSS asda in newsBernard Matthews streamlines order processes
News The company complies with the EDI standard of document interchange, but as a supplier of Wal-Mart-owned ASDA, it has to use that retailer's preferred system - AS2. Poultry products supplier Bernard Matthews has streamlined its trading platform... [17 Mar 2008]
Supermarket probe to trawl millions of emails
News The UK's Competition Commission may have to trawl through more than 12 million emails as part of its investigation into the treatment of suppliers by Asda and Tesco. Asda and Tesco, along with Morrisons and Sainsbury's, are currently the subject of... [20 Aug 2007]
Asda weighs in to online shopping war
News Asda has announced plans to expand its internet services in a bid to take on rivals Sainsbury's and Tesco, having originally been slow to embrace ecommerce. An Asda spokeswoman said 157 out of the total 310 stores will offer online shopping by... [06 Nov 2006]
Tesco dominates net shopping with £2m loo rolls
News Its nearest rival, the Wal-Mart-owned Asda chain, took 16 per cent, with Sainsbury's following close behind with 14 per cent. Tesco clocked up an average delivery cost of more than £4, compared to Sainsbury's of around £3 and Asda's average cost of... [23 Aug 2006]
Carphone and NTL facing private equity bids?
News Carphone Warehouse declined to comment on the rumoured private equity offer led by Archie Norman, ex-Asda chairman and now at , who had previously attempted to buy rival mobile retailer Phones4U. Private equity firms are rumoured to be circling... [16 Aug 2006]
Asda does away with cheques
News Supermarket chain Asda is to stop accepting cheques in a number of UK stores as more people are paying by card, it claims. An ASDA spokeswoman told silicon.com: "Less than two per cent of customers pay by cheque. [03 Apr 2006]
Online supermarkets rapped over prices
News Asda, Ocado, Sainsbury, Tesco and Waitrose will provide clearer information about online pricing after the OFT received complaints from customers that prices charged for groceries on delivery were different from those advertised on the websites. [16 Mar 2006]
Google to do hardware?
News The newspaper quotes "sources" as saying Google is now in negotiations with retailers including Asda parent Wal-Mart to sell a low-cost PC or other computing device. Google could be about to shift its focus from software and search to hardware. [03 Jan 2006]
Asda to start selling £279 PCs
News Wal-Mart-owned UK supermarket chain Asda is set to start selling sub-£300 PCs in its stores from next week. The eSys PCs come with 256MB of memory, an Intel Celeron 2.4GHz processor and a 40GB hard disk, and will be sold in Asda's 271 stores for... [18 Aug 2005]
Asda: 'We will do RFID'
News Supermarket giant Asda is to dip its toe into RFID waters, it was confirmed today. Simon Langford, manager of RFID strategy at Asda's US parent Wal-Mart, revealed today that the UK firm is seriously looking at RFID - despite its previous rejection... [07 Jun 2005]
Asda fancies itself as the new Amazon
News Asda is following the likes of Tesco and Amazon into the world of online home entertainment sales. Asda's decision to use the web to boost its non-food business follows a similar course taken by other supermarket chains. [26 May 2005]
OFT checks out online supermarkets
News Asda has claimed it has the same prices nationwide in all its stores and for its online service. The Office of Fair Trading has confirmed it is opening an investigation into the customer service of online supermarkets. [13 Dec 2004]
Lastminute.chairman quits.com
News Leighton, a serial board member, has also held various posts with Asda, BSkyB, BHS, Cannons Dyson, Leeds United Football Club and Royal Mail during the same period. Allan Leighton, non-executive chairman of lastminute.com, is to stand down from his... [26 Oct 2004]
Crime wave sparked by chip and PIN rollout
News While some retailers including Asda have already rolled out terminals with the technology, others, including Sainsbury's, don’t expect to be able to meet the 2005 deadline. Although it's hoped the introduction of chip and PIN credit and bank cards... [17 Sep 2004]
Northampton's chip and PIN 'high street of the future'
News Three in five cardholders across the UK have a chip and PIN card and retailers including Asda, Comet, Dixons and Tesco have now partially or fully rolled out the PIN terminals at their checkouts. The fraud-busting chip and PIN card technology is... [16 Sep 2004]
