Asda Cheapest Christmas Supermarket For Second Consecutive Year
Christmas has come and gone and for the second consecutive year, Asda has been named by the Grocer Magazine as the best value supermarket for Christmas.
The magazine publishes an annual “Christmas 33″ survey based on a trolley of 33 essential festive items such as turkey and mince pies. According to the results of the survey Asda’s trolley was the lowest price of all the major supermarket chains costing £105.37.
Morrisons came in second, followed by Tesco, Sainsbury and finally Waitrose.
Asda offered the cheapest turkey costing £13 for a medium-size frozen bird, compared to £15 at Morrisons and Tesco, £18 at Sainsbury’s and £22 at Waitrose .
Asda’s own label Christmas pudding was also the cheapest of the major retailers, costing just £2 less than half the price of its big four rivals
Commenting on the findings, Adam Leyland, editor of The Grocer magazine, said: “Asda is well-known for its cheap prices, and the concern of shoppers last year was the quality of its offer, but it’s putting much more emphasis on quality this year.”
“Asda has pulled out all the stops on the Christmas dinner this year,” he added.
“It wasn’t the cheapest on every item, but it was consistently there or thereabouts. The turkey and the Christmas pudding were particularly keenly priced.”
Asda Says It Will Create 7500 Jobs Next Year
The UK’s second biggest retail chain, Asda says it will create as many as 7,500 jobs in the UK in 2011. The supermarket chain says the new jobs will be created as a result of new store openings, expansion of its home shopping service, and the acquisition of Netto stores.
Home shopping will add 2,400 new employees, whilst the opening of new Asda outlets will require 3,500 new employees, and 1,500 new employees will be taken on at Netto supermarkets. One hundred staff will also be recruited at new in-store pharmacies .
“I’m proud to say next year we will once again create thousands of new jobs at every level of our growing business,” commented Asda chief executive Andy Clarke.
“At Asda we always recruit for attitude and train for skill, so you needn’t have previous retail experience to apply. We’re simply looking for people who share our passion for customer service .”
In May, the retailer acquired the Danish company Netto’s UK food stores for £778 million and says it intends to convert the outlets to the Asda brand in the first quarter of next year.
Asda Begins In Store Ordering Trial
UK supermarket chain Asda says it will begin a trial of an in-store ordering service that will allow customers to order non food products at three of its stores.
The service which is “Argos-style” enables customers to order items from kiosks which are in store, or from an online catalogue. The order will be completed by dispatching the goods to the checkout from an on-site warehouse.
Andy Clarke chief executive of Asda says the Asda Extra trials have stared at stores in Bradford, Glasshoughton in Castleford and Hyde, Greater Manchester.
In an interview with the Financial Times, he said: “Some stores can not trade the full general merchandise offer, but in some stores they have warehouse space that is not being used that we can turn over to this way of operating.”
Mr Clarke says that trial has already begun to show a positive response, and should they prove to ultimately be successful, in all likelihood the program may be rolled out to other Asda stores nationwide within the next five years.
Asda Has Some Rocking Christmas Offers
Asda Gifts & Flowers has some rocking Christmas offers on at the moment with Gifts for £10 being offered right up until 25th October. Experience Day gifts ranging from makeovers, health day passes to paintballing are being offered for the fabulously low price of just £10. So hurry now and make sure to take advantage of the offer before it expires.
Click Here To Buy Christmas Gifts for £10 Online From Asda
If that is not enough for you than Asda Direct is running a great offer on selected furniture lines, with as much as 30 per cent off for deliveries before Christmas. If you are planning on buying that new sofa or bed this year, and want a nice whopper discount, order before the 1st of November, and you could receive as much as a 30 per cent discount. So hurry now and check it out today.
Click Here To Buy Furniture Online From Asda Direct
Asda Baby Event Free Delivery Voucher Code – Offer Ends Monday 17th October
Asda’s Baby event has started everything from his and hers baby clothes, maternity items and toddler products are available at really low prices, and to top it all off, Asda is offering free delivery for any order exceeding £10. So hurry now, the free delivery voucher code is valid only until midnight October 17th 2010.
- Enter Voucher Code babyevent2 At Checkout and Receive Free delivery off when you spend £10 or more.
- Offer Expires: midnight 17th October
Click Here To Shop Online At Asda’s Baby Event
George At Asda Offers 25 Per Cent Discounts On Jeans
George at Asda has a great deal for customers at the moment and is offering discounts as high as 25 per cent on 
Jeans and Jeggings. There is something for everyone whether it be women’s, men’s or children’s jeans and guaranteed savings for everyone, so make sure you check it out and get a new pair of jeans whilst the going is good.
Click Here To Buy Jeans Online From George At Asda
Asda Launches Miley Cyrus Clothing Range
UK supermarket chain Asda has announced the launch of a new clothing range designed by Miley Cyrus, star of the hit show on Disney Hannah Montana.
The range of clothing includes the teen sensation’s trademark ripped jeans, waistcoats and T-shirts.
Miley Cyrus describes the range as having an “edgy UK style”, and was designed with the help of French fashion designer Max Azria.
Fiona Lambert, director of Asda’s George clothing brand, said: “We have thousands of Miley fans among our customers and this collection will give them access to high end fashion without breaking the bank.”
Prices from the Hannah Montana range start from £6 and are available in American sizes, A spokesperson for Asda says that all George employees will come equipped with size converters, enabling shoppers to pick the right fit for them.
Demand for the Miley-inspired clothing is expected to soar next month when the 17-year old pop sensation makes a guest appearance on the X Factor.
Click Here To Buy The Miley Cyrus Range Online From George
Asda Groceries Announces Short Term Cheap Delivery And Opens Kids Club
Asda has just announced that shoppers can now get their groceries delivered directly to their door at unbelievably low prices! The offer is not going to last forever, so head over to the Asda grocery site and get a load in today.
- Deliveries from £2
- Deliveries from £3 after 1pm
Asda groceries has also started a Kids Club, a great new shop that aims to give Mum’s and Dad’s creative meal ideas for their kids.
Not only can shoppers view recipes and buy the ingredients for Breakfast, Lunch and Tea, there are also fun activities for kids such as baking cookies!
There is also a great section for birthday parties! Shoppers simply need to enter the age range and the sex of their child to return a huge list of excellent products suitable for their child’s birthday party! So hurry now and check it out
Click Here To Shop Online With Asda Groceries
UK Shoppers Use Of Plastic Carrier Bags Falls By Half
Shoppers at the UK’s largest supermarket chains have cut their use of plastic carrier bags by nearly half compared to the numbers that were used four years ago according to the Waste &Resources Action Programme (Wrap).
Data released by the program suggests that the number of plastic carrier bags used by supermarket customers has fallen by as much as 43 per cent during the last 4 years. 10.6 billion bags were used in 2006, compared with 6.1 billion in 2009/10.
The data also suggests that the quantity of material used to manufacture the bags has also fallen by more than half during the same period.
The BRC said: “This is a tremendous achievement by supermarkets and customers to reduce environmental impact.”
Stephen Robertson, the BRC’s director general, said the latest figures show that shoppers are “permanently adopting the habit of re-using their bags “.
He added: “Retailers are working hard on a range of other environmental measures, such as reducing food waste, reducing and redesigning packaging, as well as providing customers with recycling information through the on-pack recycling label.”
Asda Cuts Price Of Fuel Yet Again
Firing another salvo in the fuel price war, retailing major Asda has once again cut the cost of unleaded petrol and diesel by one pence per litre.
Asda cuts its price in time for the Bank Holiday weekend, and the new costs of filling up the tank at Asda is 110.9p a litre for unleaded, and 113.9p for diesel. Asda’s rivals have all pledged to match the cut in prices.
Asda’s latest cut comes just a week after it dropped the price of unleaded and diesel by 1p and 2p a litre respectively.
“When it comes to petrol pricing we keep it simple – we try to be the first to drop and the last to put them up, wherever you live,” said Phil Briggs, Asda’s Commercial Director.
“While others are happy to hold onto higher prices for longer, and even inflate them locally where they can get away with it – we believe the right thing to do is have consistently low prices every day, everywhere”.
