#111

My wife did a temp job at the Farmfoods head office for a few weeks. Kept getting phone calls from confused old folk who’d seen the advert for the similarly named Wiltshire Farm Foods and wanted to subscribe to Ronnie Corbett approved meals on wheels.

#112

Yes Tesco and morrisons have a ‘convenience store’ brand (which in Tesco’s case is now their preferred model for future developments), but asda don’t. It will make for an interesting exercise in analysing divestment opportunities when the commission inevitably ask for that.

#113

Morrisons shut all their convenience stores a couple of years ago because they weren’t making any money.

Asda have their smaller ‘Supermarket’ branded stores though which serve a similar sort of purpose. Mostly old Netto stores they bought after they went bust a few years back.

#114

Unfairly overlooked.

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#115

fastest growing part of the market

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#116

aha, I didn’t realise they had stores like that (they don’t up here in Scotland, where they are exclusively GIANT warehouses which sit next to a B&Q or similar.)

#117

which part is?

#118

small foot print, convenience, impulse shop

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#119

There’s a small ASDA on Deptford High St, it’s weird.

#120

What about online?

These chumps are all running scared from Ocado.

#121

the cost of investment is large, plus the looming threat of amazon fresh or what have you… would need to be brave to take that on.

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#122

It’s the way we’re growing

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#123

absolutely. Tesco have pulled the plug on a huge number of sites that were earmarked for development on monster retail parks, in favour of the small- medium size stores.

#124

That does sound weird. Like when you see the wimpy in Kilmarnock and it’s just so wrong (but also obvs so right). :sob::rofl:

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#125

not sure how this will work in practice… if its just buying power so that they can squeeze suppliers (which is what todays news is focusing on) or if you’ll have a Sainsbury’s distro centre supplying nearby Asda shops etc :man_shrugging:

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#126

I didn’t realise the My Local stores had been sold off and closed, but yeah, ASDA have a lot of old Netto sites that are under 2500sqm.

#127

I think there might be a streamlining of distro and logistic services, but they’ll try and keep it as seperate as they can. But who knows.

#128

Geographically there’s still a split between ASDA and Sainsbury’s stores, so I imagine that most of it will stay separate anyway.

#129

Yeah - took over the Poundland. There’s also a small-ish one on Rye Lane in Peckham…

#130

I think they sold (maybe had to sell) some of these. I know the Co-Op bought quite a few. There was a store near me which changed from a Netto to a small Asda to a Co-Op within a year or two.