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Asda: 'We will use 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 readying an RFID rollout - despite its previous rejection...
[June 8, 2005, 10:20]
Asda to file complaint against Vodafone, BT
News Supermarket chain Asda has announced that it is to make an official complaint to Oftel, the telecommunications regulator, about mobile phone operators BT Cellnet and Vodafone. They tore up the deals and announced that they were upping prices by 90...
[August 26, 1999, 15:25]
Asda embraces Tesco's approach to e-commerce
News UK supermarket chain Asda is planning to follow Tesco's lead by fulfilling all its Internet orders through its existing stores, rather than by operating dedicated warehouses for its online shoppers. According to The Independent, Asda is to close...
[January 8, 2002, 16:20]
Asda expands online shopping
News Supermarket chain Asda is expanding its Internet shopping service, offering one million households in the South-East the chance to buy online. Unlike rivals, Asda has a dedicated depot in Croydon which supplies goods to homes within two hours.
[October 21, 1999, 11:42]
Asda takes on BT with 20 percent off national calls
News Not content with battling other supermarket giants, Asda, now owned by U.S.retail behemoth WalMart, is set to go head to head with British Telecom by offering cut-price telephone calls. The service, currently on trial in seven Asda stores in the...
[October 4, 1999, 11:45]
Asda joins forces with AOL
News Asda is taking a big step into e-commerce in a new alliance with AOL Europe and comparison-shopping site ShopSmart.com. AOL and Asda will jointly take a 22.5 percent stake in ShopSmart, and will promote the site in Asda's 240 UK stores and German...
[August 9, 2000, 10:51]
A Year Ago: Asda to file complaint against Vodafone, BT
News Supermarket chain Asda has announced that it is to make an official complaint to Oftel, the telecommunications regulator, about mobile phone operators BT Cellnet and Vodafone. They tore up the deals and announced that they were upping prices by 90...
[August 26, 2000, 7:01]
Asda set to offer nationwide Net shopping
News Supermarket chain Asda is to offer nationwide Net shopping by 2005, and will start by expanding its delivery areas next year, the company announced Tuesday. Asda is the only UK grocery store to operate dedicated depots for Internet orders.
[December 14, 1999, 10:59]
Asda expands online shopping
Talkback Could you tell me if there is an asda online shopping service in my grimsby area please. Hi.
[November 6, 2004, 8:36]
Online supermarkets rapped by OFT
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 Web sites.
[March 16, 2006, 12:10]
Microsoft rewarded for work-life balance effort
News Asda has won the title of best company to work for in the UK in a survey carried out by The Sunday Times. A typical starting salary for shopfloor staff at Asda is just £9k, but it still beat Microsoft into second place, where a typical starting...
[March 26, 2002, 17:06]
Tesco dominates Internet shopping
News Its nearest rival, the Wal-Mart-owned Asda chain, took 16 percent, with Sainsbury's following close behind with 14 percent. Tesco clocked up an average delivery cost of more than £4, compared to Sainsbury's average of around £3 and Asda's average...
[August 24, 2006, 9:50]
Just how successful is the MS/Novell pact?
Blog Walmart owns Asda in the UK, and, what with Walmart and Microsoft being global companies, it only seemed right to want to know how Asda were going to start utilising Novell open source infrastructure.
[January 25, 2007, 17:04]
Huge UK telephone savings on the way
News As reported Monday on ZDNet UK News, Supermarket chain Asda is currently offering customers 20 percent discounts on fixed line telephone calls. The prices Asda and others offer do not take account of discounts we offer but we are used to...
[October 5, 1999, 12:41]
White-labeling the ‘managed’ cloud
Blog Now you can have a ASDA bank account I think. Is ASDA a bank? Would it be true to suggest that a product only truly comes of age when it can be re-packaged, re-labeled or re-purposed in a simple to manage context that boosts its proliferation and...
[August 13, 2009, 8:55]
PC prices continue to drop
News Last week, UK supermarket chain Asda confirmed it plans to start selling PCs for under £300. The eSys PCs come with 256MB of RAM, a 2.4GHz Intel Celeron processor and a 40GB hard disk, and will be sold in Asda's 271 stores for £279 from 25 August.
[August 22, 2005, 17:40]
Debit card breach mystery deepens
Talkback Does this affect anyone in the UK who has shopped at ASDA (Walmart group) with a Debit/Credit Card I wonder? How much is being kept hush hush? We need transparency and accountability in these matters to ensure consumer confidence.
[February 13, 2006, 15:27]
RFID DoS attacks 'proven'
Talkback Can just see ASDA shoopers pushing there trolley full of batteries and signal generators around the shop so they can get out of the new RFID checkout without paying the bill! RF Jamming Works! WOW what a news story
[April 18, 2006, 15:12]
Calculator Looking Number Generator from the Bank
Blog Comment Hi Chris, I understand your concerns, having had my bank card swiped on one occasion and used for a bit of a shopping spree at Asda and B&Q in the Midlands. The bank acted very quickly in that case and returned my money pretty fast, but it...
[April 4, 2008, 11:25]
HD-DVD explodes on the launchpad
Blog Comment Chris, my advice to you is; unless you need a games console, its ok to wait, my bet is 2 years from now we'll see a £50 Blue-Ray player in Asda.by then, even the films will be realistically priced. In the mean time, i believe the studios will...
[February 19, 2008, 17:05]
