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Sainsbury's enjoys online sales boom
News Supermarket chain Sainsbury's has seen sales from its Web site increase by 35 percent over the past year and 500 percent over the past three years, which means the company is on track to break even in 2004.
[November 25, 2003, 12:30]
Sainsbury's hypes Skype
News VoIP provider Skype has begun selling credit vouchers at Sainsbury's supermarkets across the UK. We think our customers will welcome the convenience of being able to purchase inexpensive worldwide Internet calls when they shop," said Sainsbury's...
[May 12, 2006, 16:45]
Sainsbury's scraps outsourcing deal early
News Sainsbury's is ending its 10-year outsourcing contract with Accenture three years early and bringing its IT operations back in house over the next six to 12 months. It said detailed plans are now being drawn up for the migration of the IT services...
[October 28, 2005, 15:30]
Sainsbury's sexy SMS job ad causes complaints
News A text message advertising jobs at a local store was sent by Sainsbury's to hundreds of people in Stockport, telling them that the sender needed them and couldn't get enough of them. Sainsbury's has now apologised.
[March 14, 2002, 16:16]
Sainsbury's can't just blame technology
Leader So we shouldn't be surprised when Sainsbury's blames technology for its misfortunes, which have their roots in the late 1990s when the company tried to jump on the dot-com bandwagon -- only to end up on a barrow that any self-respecting hawker...
[October 20, 2004, 12:15]
Sainsbury's online 'far from profitability'
News UK supermarket group Sainsbury's said on Wednesday that it will probably take nearly two more years before its online shopping operations reach break-even point. These figures showed that its Internet service, called Sainsbury's To You, made a £50m...
[May 29, 2002, 13:56]
Sainsbury's: SAS® drives increased profit from direct marketing
White Papers With 11 million Nectar scheme members, Sainsbury's has transformed itself into a customer-centric retailer, building a new IT infrastructure and using SAS to optimise campaigns, build relationships and grow sales.
[October 6, 2006, 1:00]
Sainsbury's scraps outsourcing deal early
Talkback Sainsbury's should emulate the succes of Tesco. The reason Tesco is the leader is beause they must be doing something right!
[October 31, 2005, 9:32]
Sainsbury's hypes Skype
Talkback Perhaps Sainsbury's will be able to force this. "The tie-up could be a turning point in bringing VoIP to a mass market" Also it could be a turning-point -- I can but hope -- with Skype starting to offer a proper service particularly in providing...
[May 12, 2006, 19:28]
IT write-off costs Sainsbury's £290m
News Sainsbury's has put the brakes on new IT investment and is looking to renegotiate its £1.8bn IT outsourcing contract with Accenture as part of a new back-to-basics business plan designed to turnaround the struggling supermarket chain.
[October 19, 2004, 14:25]
Sainsbury's scraps outsourcing deal early
Talkback Poor business management allowed control over vital business functions leads to many happy salesmen. This usually happens when safe guards like internal IT specialists and the actual end user organization are left out of the equation.
[October 31, 2005, 21:34]
IT write-off costs Sainsbury's £290m
Talkback Back to basics, oh you mean selling food? Well stop selling GM milk then, scrap that and sell non GM milk, and you could do better Organics wise too, organic meat cannot be organic for the last 60 days of its life -- all the technology in the world...
[October 19, 2004, 22:58]
Sainsbury's scraps outsourcing deal early
Talkback Gee, another outsource contract crash and burns. Feel free to google JP Chase Bank and how they have dropped IBM G/S even earlier to go back inhouse. When are these reckless CEO/CFO/CIO's going to stop reading the glossy brochures and see the...
[October 31, 2005, 20:19]
Sainsbury's can't just blame technology
Talkback I don't think Accenture can be let off the hook so easily. A key part of any IT consultant's role is to make sure that IT solutions fit with the client's business needs, or to warn them and take them down a different route.
[October 21, 2004, 15:58]
Sainsbury expands e-commerce offering
News Sainsbury's increases its online presence Monday with the launch of a free ISP and Web site and plans to expand its online shopping early next year. Sainsbury's admitted last month it had fallen behind rival supermarkets in developing e-commerce...
[November 22, 1999, 11:43]
UK to get 100 teraflop supercomputer
News Lord Sainsbury, science minister, announced last Friday that the government was providing financial backing to the HECToR (High-End Computing Terascale Resource) project. HECToR will be an indispensable tool for scientists across the entire breadth...
[April 3, 2006, 17:35]
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]
Tesco.com takes 60,000 orders a week
News Sainsbury's recently entered a three year deal with Computer Sciences to host its shopping site, but its currently limited service is lagging far behind Tesco's. Sainsbury's and Budgens by contrast have relied on centralised depots.
[October 10, 2000, 12:56]
Government unveils £100m tech investment plan
News Science and innovation minister Lord Sainsbury today announced a £100m windfall for the high-tech sector as part of the next round of the government's technology programme, which has £320m to distribute to UK companies by 2008.
[March 16, 2005, 8:40]
Developers angry over software patent 'evasion'
Talkback Lord Sainsbury, the "hero of the people". No doubt Lord Sainsbury thinks he knows better than the plebian classes. This is the guy that tried and failed to get people in the UK to buy and eat GM food against their wishes.
[December 15, 2004, 12:22]
