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Supermarket probe to trawl millions of emails
News Asda and Tesco, along with Morrisons and Sainsbury's, are currently the subject of a two-year inquiry by the Competition Commission into the market dominance of the 'big four' supermarket chains. The UK's Competition Commission may have to trawl... [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]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.08.06
Round-Up In second place is Asda with a relatively paltry 16 per cent of the market and very little insight into its banana and loo roll revenues provided by comScore, who compiled these stats. Sainsbury's meanwhile was a close third on 14 per cent. [25 Aug 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]
Sainsbury's scrutinises buying habits to woo customers
Case Study Sainsbury's, which has around 16 per cent of the UK's £110bn grocery market, has been steadily losing market share to competitors Tesco and Asda, a Wal-Mart-owned business that knocked Sainsbury's out of the number-two position in 2003 and hasn't... [24 Jun 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. A spokeswoman for Sainsbury's said the company could not comment as it was in consultation with the OFT. [13 Dec 2004]
Leader: Retailers, be brave with IT
Leader The tales of Wal-Mart's global supply chain are legendary and it would seem that, while not all Asda's success is down to this - much of the last decade's growth came pre-acquisition and it is teaching its parent a thing or two, by George - clear... [20 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. Some, however, including Sainsbury's, have admitted... [16 Sep 2004]
Sainsbury's mobile service: When hindsight is a truly wonderful thing
Comment In terms Sainsbury's will be familiar with, somebody may tell its customers it's cheaper to go to Asda, but if they're happy with the range at Sainsbury's and have never found it excessively priced then they'll probably stick with what they know. [09 Sep 2002]
Supermarket websites failing to deliver the goods
News Over the last year Asda, Iceland, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose have improved their web performances, but still continue to lag online, according to a study by trade magazine The Grocer. Tesco.com received visits from 6.6 per cent of the UK... [09 Apr 2002]
'Bad sites selling bad goods': Which? pans online grocers
News The top four grocers featured - Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Iceland - were all rated as adequate to satisfactory in their delivery, with all four pledging to do better still. His words almost echoed those of a spokesman for Asda who said: "We have... [28 Feb 2001]
This time in '99: Supermarkets pour millions into home shopping
News UK supermarket chains, Sainsbury's and Asda, have made major commitments to home shopping. Sainsbury's has said it will open a London-based home shopping depot costing up to £10m, while Asda is spending £20m on four warehouses in the London area. [15 May 2000]
Food safety crisis prompts national database talks
News He agreed that this would be a good compromise for food manufacturers, which are extremely protective about the break-down of their ingredients.i-Label is in a key position for such a project as it supplies structured databases to most British... [08 Mar 2000]
M&S to go Orange
News High-street rivals Asda, Tesco, Safeway and Sainsbury's this summer entered a price war on pre-paid phones from the big four networks. After a well-publicised slump in sales, M&S is known to be looking at innovative distribution methods to make... [13 Sep 1999]
