Asda has revealed its plans to trial a new format that will focus on specific categories and reduce space for bigger items that sell well online.
Focus on key categories
The format initiative will be trialled at the end of the year in Colney, Coventry and Grantham. The trial will see the removal of white goods and electrical items in favour of additional space for growth categories such as fresh food, homeware, health and baby. The average size of the three trial stores will be 50,000 sq ft.
Multichannel remains priority
Asda's CEO, Andy Clarke, has said to The Yorkshire Post that there is potential to renew the estate if the trial is a success. 'We are reviewing our large store portfolio and are trialling a new proposition that will land by the end of the year. We'll open three store in the last quarter of this year.
There are clear areas of the business which are switching to online, such as white goods and electricals. We are leading on 'Click & Collect' whether it's from a locker or a van. We are changing the space in stores.
The new proposition stores have to combine the relationship between digital and physical. If it works we'll renew our estate based on these proposition stores. They are the stores of the future.'
George to retain strong store presence
Regarding the store's popular George clothing range, this will continue to have a strong presence in store as shoppers continue to prefer trying clothes on in store before buying. However, it seems clothing will not be merchandised at the front of the store but fresh food as the retailer puts more emphasis on initiatives such as Price Lock and its fresh credentials
Surely as this site is called VLH we should be concerned with matters associated with Tesco rather than Asda,would you not think,maybe your post should be on the Asda site that has just been set up.
HR - Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, always good to keep an eye on what the competitors are doing.
Agree with at TL. Its important to know what 'they' are initiating next as if it works the others tend to replicate.
Always good to read Twinkeltoes1 what the other supermarkets are doing :thumbup:
Thank you.HR don't like what other supermarkets are doing in case its better than Tesco, get a life man there is more to life than Tesco.
Not so Twinkletoes1 To be honest I am not particularly interested in Asda not a place I have ever visited, not a place I am ever likely to visit, regardless of their offer, so as I say not of any interest to me.
My point was I thought that VLH was to do with Tesco what others are up to is not of interest to this site,or so I am lead to believe, although I am happy to read anything about any of the others,it will never change my view or shopping habits so, as I say no problem for me.
i must have been off that day we made hr an admin ;D
Although this is primarily for Tesco matters, what happens in the industry as a whole may be of interest to our members.
I have family in Grantham so visit the store there from time to time, it will be interesting to see the new format and how it compares to some of the new Tesco large stores.
Quote from: Faceandgo on 13-06-14, 08:02PM
i must have been off that day we made hr an admin ;D
Now that would certainly be something Faceandgo, wouldn't it.
Well can I suggest that you visit ASDA, the prices are cheaper and I can honestly say quite a lot of their fresh items are of much better quality, I shop there as its cheaper than Tesco, even with my staff discount.
There is not a chance in hell that I would ever set foot in an Asda Twinkletoes1 not a chance in hell.
I guess you'll just have to believe Twinkeltoes' assessment of it, then.
HR
You really are "Tesco through & through". Unfortunately you cannot validly judge something as "best", or indeed, as "good" if you do not have something to compare the sample to.
Your myopic view of Tesco is rendered near valueless by your lack of knowledge of what modern supermarkets offer their customers.
If many of the current senior staff and directors of Tesco lack as much industry knowledge as you, it truly explains a lot.
Undoubtedly you will now fire off a salvo of poorly spelled and near incomprehensible postings justifying your admirable support for your ex-employer.
I speak only for myself in saying that you frequently prove what my grandmother used to say. "Empty vessels make the most noise".
What Asda do with a new concept will impact on what Tesco do, or will prove how clever Tesco are by doing something differently.
I have been lurking around this site for months now.......regularly reading HR's posts......And I really don't understand why you all take him seriously....please, please "Please do not feed the troll."
If you take a cold hard look at some of the nonsense he posts it will be clear he is nothing more than a wind-up merchant.
Doubtless he will post a smart reply to this....I for my part will not rise to the bait... "Please do not feed the troll."
Personally I think HR occasionally comes out with some genuinely good stuff and if nothing else the remainder gives use an insight into the T* mindset
Well we're re-fitting in the near future, allegedly(!) & we have it on good authority that our non-food range will be limited by comparison featuring ranges (eg crockery) delightfully displayed with something to say it's available in 'these colours' & 'these patterns' if you'd like to order online here or at home in multiple ways. Staff are to be trained to encourage customers to the direct desk/onscreen catalogue, no longer will we feature 'a bit of everything'.
It seems a nudge towards ordering online. I'm sure it will be marketed as 'customer driven choice' rather than 'no other choice' 8-)
It sounds a good way to keep up with the times & reduce capital sitting around in stock but not so good for the shelf-fillers & stock controllers :(
Hello,
Argos anyone........?
Babylon5 :-*
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Oddly enough I agree with you. Unfortunately the other 90% is unintelligible drivel.
To me, it sounds like Asda are trying out the Tesco Homeplus formula that we have, ok we only have around twelve of them dotted accross the country, but maybe they can see how to make it more sucessfull than us?
http://news.sky.com/story/1284107/morrisons-plans-2600-job-cuts-in-shake-up (http://news.sky.com/story/1284107/morrisons-plans-2600-job-cuts-in-shake-up)
Oh no!
Quote from: happyreturns on 13-06-14, 03:50PM
Surely as this site is called VLH we should be concerned with matters associated with Tesco rather than Asda,would you not think,maybe your post should be on the Asda site that has just been set up.
Tesco will follow infact they're already reducing down TV mods....if one of the big 3 do something the others will soon follow
All I can say about ASDA is their value range closely resembles dog food. . Not fit for human consumption.
Hey we are a nation of dog lovers,
And im sure if any dog had made a complaint they would have changed it >:D
I went into the local Asda yesterday morning and there were guys going through the tills with trolley loads of beer and I don't mean one or two cases I mean full deep-trolley fulls. I have never seen that in the local Tesco though the latter does apparently sell a lot of beer. The Lidl across the road from the Asda had Merc's, an newish Audi 4x4 and several other newish cars in the car park. They were customer's cars, I stopped to watch to see who got into them and the drivers came out with shopping.
The last time I bought a tube of Pringles, (it was sometime ago), I thought they were about £1.50 ish.
So I was surprised to see a sign in a local Express, offering Pringles at Half Price, £1.30 instead of £2.60.
Bemused by the idea that anybody has ever bought Pringles for £2.60, I went home and idly googled a supermarket comparison site.
Tesco and Waitrose were both charging £2.48, but with 2 for 1, Sainsbury were £2.50 with 2 for 1.
Morrisons were no nonsense 1 for £1.24
Asda were £2.48! But then you could take advantage of their 3 for £3, if you wanted, saving 24p per tube against Tescos special offer!
Happy New Year to our Asda colleagues and many thanks for your efforts over Xmas, all our love Walmart (apologies if it seems a tad quick)
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/5-000-asda-staff-redeployed-amid-talk-of-redundancies-1-7687807 (http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/5-000-asda-staff-redeployed-amid-talk-of-redundancies-1-7687807)
Asda announcement
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/07/more-than-800-senior-asda-shopfloor-staff-face-pay-cut-or-redundancy? (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/07/more-than-800-senior-asda-shopfloor-staff-face-pay-cut-or-redundancy?)
Dreadful time for such an announcement, but you can be sure Tesco will not be far behind with this.
Tesco are reluctant to make cuts at the high end so low paid staff are losing jobs. Until changes are made to this they will always fold. I can get dairy products out of my newsagent cheaper than Tesco nowadays. At least Asda are being upfront with staff. Who knows what will happen at Tesco in the new year I definitely wont be spending as much this Christmas. We all know the business model is unsustainable.
They're cutting team leaders , probably like Tesco they would be better cutting managers !
Managers cost to much in redundancy, cut the team leaders give the managers more to do with no more money, they leave, hire new managers on less money with more responsibilities job done.
They all underestimated the Discounters.
Underestimated them and still do. Tesco's hubris will cost them again and again.
Not all managers are long serving and a lot could be got rid of for not a lot of money compared to the long term savings.
We do not need a 1980's management structure when most departments run on a handful of staff. If you can run a Extra on a Sunday with 3-5 Managers can anyone justify the need for 30+ on a quieter Tuesday/Wednesday.....
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The night crew had a management structure that should be enough for a large extra on busy days. 1 Lead and 3/4 LMs. Get an equal amount of PT and FT GAs and an agency which is phoned when the warehouse is too full for staff for a few day/months help. The SMs should be responsible for a few stores in an area and the SD should oversee a full area.
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If Asda want to save money on stacking and tidy shelves just do what the Germans do, fill the aisles and fridges with boxes. Far more efficient (but hey that's what Germans do well) and evidently cuts costs. If consumers expect more 'Finesse' from the top four why are they shopping with the Germans? Where is 'shopping snobbery' evident given the march of the Germans?
It's a stark reality that technology will see fewer and fewer human beings employed in store. Did the Germans anticipate it first? However, do they have plans to use technology to match the top four that will surely utilise high tec stuff to get consumers through their door without them having to interact with a human?
Dave Lewis said at the start of his tenure that he wanted more staff at the front line, yet Asda want less at their coal-face. If both are competing with the upstarts which approach is likely to succeed?
Aldi and Lidl aren't 'Discounters' are they, come on?
The definition of discount is to 'reduce the price'. We universally know that they sell items under their own umbrellas with no fancy offers or misleading BS. They sell quality food, at low cost, facilitated by their ability to put it on the shelf at lower operating costs and margins than the so-called top four.
They re not discounters. It's semantics? Why though? Is that a separate discussion?
Dave Lewis said at the start of his tenure that he wanted more staff at the front line, yet Asda want less at their coal-face.
Aren't Asda doing much the same as Tesco in getting rid of teammleaders?
a proposal that could mean 842 section leaders being removed from its store management teams.
Quote from: Welshie on 08-12-17, 01:36PM
They're cutting team leaders , probably like Tesco they would be better cutting managers !
They did! 3 years ago in my old store made 40% of the management team redundant. Replaced with section leader. 40p an hour and a special t-shirt for store responsibility. Now they've gone and removing Ga wages. Business model is f***ed. Trying to run it like lidl but major supermarkets make everything to complex. Its boxes in boxes out.
Quote from: OpShunned on 08-12-17, 09:48PM
They re not discounters. It's semantics? Why though? Is that a separate discussion?
Agree, they are not discounters - they are just much much simpler supermarkets, untainted by the complexities and 'bells and whistles' of the Big 4 that only ever served to improve profits. Its the simplicity of Aldi and Lidl that makes them more efficient coupled with a low cost operating model and better buying practices. To compete as one of the Big 4, you'd have to take the whole business apart and build it again, perhaps this is where ASDA are going?
Quote from: formerscoboy on 09-12-17, 05:52AM
They did! 3 years ago in my old store made 40% of the management team redundant. Replaced with section leader. 40p an hour and a special t-shirt for store responsibility. Now they've gone and removing Ga wages. Business model is f***ed. Trying to run it like lidl but major supermarkets make everything to complex. Its boxes in boxes out.
Precisely this.
Quote from: Equalizer87 on 08-12-17, 06:13PM
Underestimated them and still do. Tesco's hubris will cost them again and again.
Exactly, we think we are unassailable - too big to fail - but the world has irreversibly changed, so have the people in it and the economy they live in, so the reality is that the Big 4 are now too big to
succeed in the long term. They've had their time and it was very good for them while it lasted as the conditions favoured them for a long time but they don't anymore. Tesco is now outdated and stubbornly still believes, because of its history, that what it is has done in the past will continue to make it strong in the future and the rise of ALDI and Lidl over the last few years has proven this to be very wrong.
I made a rare trip to ASDA last week and as a customer the entire experience from start to finish was just terrible - don't get me started on self-scan there. On Sunday I went to Lidl and was straight in and straight out getting everything I wanted at a price that was better than everywhere else and was not distracted by any marketing 'gimmicks' - as many Big 4 executives have said, food retail is very simple in its essence in that the winners are those who give customers what they want better than others and this is why Lidl and ALDI are winning because that's
exactly what they are doing in today's world.
All the Big 4 use the same set up what you gain on the roundabout you loose on the swings. They will sell you a bottle of bleach for under a £1 but they will fleece you when it comes to the every day basics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56085128
Best way for a supermarket to save money is to scrap manned tills and make them all card only self serve. Wage costs and operating costs could be slashed......
It's plainly going to happen, perhaps with the need to repay the debt Asda will lead.
If the news story is correct and the two brothers who have purchased Asda have saddled the company with a massive debt pile, the buisness model does seem a little odd selling off there warehouses distribution network and petrol stations, where I ca see the reason behind selling the petrol stations to sell off there warehouses and distribution does seem a little odd.
The debt servicing is going to set them back £125m a year against a profit of £500m a year, but surely having the almighty juggernaut that was Walmart behind them would of allowed very good margins. If I worked for them I would be worried about the future.
Quote from: londoner83 on 17-02-21, 08:58AM
Best way for a supermarket to save money is to scrap manned tills and make them all card only self serve. Wage costs and operating costs could be slashed......
It's plainly going to happen, perhaps with the need to repay the debt Asda will lead.
Higher theft through self service tills. Walk Off’s can be mistakes too, cctv clearly show customer has tapped card and thinks they have paid but transaction did not complete. I would say that in my store the tills are good, very few mistakes but the walk Off’s are at a higher level than main bank mistakes. It does save on wages though.
The change to checkouts has been prompted by the change in shopping during COVID. On the whole customers are buying more but coming less often. Big trolleys tend to be card payment. Big trolleys do not fit well with self service. The loading (scale) side is also not big enough for a full main fleet trolley.
Scan as you shop has its own issues. It does fit very well with a full main fleet trolley but the loss on these can be high too.
I use SAYS in my local extra and love it. I had in my previous store and used it. We don’t have in the store I’m in now. We have been assessed a few times and always told we don’t have room for the handset wall.
Can't see where to start a new thread, probably for the best.
ASDA are to close their HESTON & DARTFORD home shopping centres.
Back to shop based delivers I think. Transfers, redundancy etc..
Obvious from beginning the place couldn't run at a decent turnover. Even done hub + spoke which never made economic sense to me but what do I know.
It's called a consultation, apparently.
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Thousands of Asda workers are to be balloted on the retailers latest pay offer.
The Grocer has learnt the GMB union will hold a ballot starting on 31 January and ending 14 February, with drivers and distribution centre workers deciding whether accept Asda's latest wage increase offer which it made at the end of last week .
Further negotiation was held after 94% of warehouse, clerical workers and HGV drivers refused to accept an initial pay offer from Asda, demanding what they called a "meaningful rise".
The union claimed Asda owners the Issa brothers had failed to take into account soaring inflation and the role workers have played feeding the nation in the pandemic.
However, Asda sources claim the union has made "unreasonable" demands, with the GMB seeking "eye-watering" pay rises of more than 20%.
The latest offers has seen Asda offer base rate increases to warehouse and clerical staff ranging from 4.98% to 6.10% and 6.49% to 7.53% for transport staff.
The exact amount depends on their role and where they are based in the UK.
So the national forum for Tesco should go along the lines of so the people who work in DC's got a 6% pay rise plus bounces and the lorry drivers who take it to the stores got a 6% pay rise with bounces then the staff taking it off the lorry and then put it on the shelves got naff all!! or if lucky a tub of sweets over Christmas period.