Sainsbury and Asda to merge

peter_the_piper

No worries everyone. All prices will be the same when comrade Corbyn nationalises them all.

pollypenny

Posters' perceptions of various supermarkets is interesting.

We buy vegetables from Lidl and Aldi, occasionally from Sainsbury!!!8217;s if we are going a bigger shop with a voucher, but fruit only from Tesco!!!8217;s.

Both Lidl and Aldi are great for more specialised, interesting cheese, continental meats etc. OH worked in Germany and he insists that Germans will not put up with rubbish.

We have Tesco, Aldi and Lidl here. The Aldi is a pokey, crammed place, but Lidl has been refurbished, making it an airy and pleasant place to shop. Pity about the till queues, though.

chris_m

vivatifosi wrote: »

Sky is reporting that Sainsbury will be the big partner in this, with Wal-Mart owning not more than 29% of the joint company.

42% of the issued share capital, according to the RNS that Sainsbury's issued this morning, and upon completion not more than 29.9% of the voting rights.

Pennywise

It's possible that both "brands" will continue and operate separate stores under common ownership. Lots of big firms operate different brands, often competing against each other. Just because some towns have both a Sainsbury and Asda doesn't have to mean that one will close. As said above, there are potentially huge savings by combining warehousing and distribution, bulk buying deals, etc.

Personally, I think Asda has stagnated under Walmart ownership. Barely any new stores have opened, product range kept virtually the same. Precious little in the way of development and initiatives.

Sainsbury are growing and developing, with new stores, incorporation of Argos outlets. I like Sainsbury because they sell a wider range of "named" products and fewer "own name" stuff, i.e. they always have virtually the full range of MrKipling cakes whereas Tesco/Morrison/Asda only have a few and concentrate on their own label brands instead.

With the growth of the cheap Aldi and Lidl stores, the big names have to do something. Morrison will probably fall by the wayside as they've completely lost the plot (especially the so-called "bakery" in our local store which is absolutely hopeless - i.e. cherry scones with no cherries, stale bread etc). Tesco are sorting out their behind-the-scene problems and are bouncing back, and are dominant enough to survive.

NBLondon

I can't shop in Asda - I don't have any tattoos... So I think keeping the brands separate, but possibly saving money by having shared production of own-brand lines makes sense. JS gets most of my business simply because it is closest and within walking distance - I will make trips to Lidl or Aldi for targetted items (chocolate; continental meats, beer). I agree with Jason - Argos fits better in a corner of Asda.

EachPenny

JasonLVC wrote: »

It was a good idea having an Argos inside a supermarket but always found it an odd mix to have Sainsburys hosting Argos shops - entirely different client sector in my mind.

It'd be like Waitrose having a Poundland concession in store.

Genius idea! That way the people shopping in Waitrose who can't really afford it can still get their bargains whilst pretending to the world they are upmarket Waitrose shoppers.

The only thing is the Poundland concessions would need to have obscured frontages inside the Waitrose stores - a bit like Bookies and 'adult' shops - to protect customer's privacy as they shop, but also to protect the more sensitive Waitrose shopper from seeing what goes on in a typical High Street shop.

klew356

Morning all,

I don!!!8217;t food shop in either Sainsbury or asda !!!8211; but i do go online for George and home items from asda, i hope this doesn!!!8217;t change their pricing because i have looked online at Sainsbury and its overpriced for the quality !!!8211; its the same stuff.

System

Pennywise wrote: »

Sainsbury are growing and developing, with new stores, incorporation of Argos outlets. I like Sainsbury because they sell a wider range of "named" products and fewer "own name" stuff, i.e. they always have virtually the full range of MrKipling cakes whereas Tesco/Morrison/Asda only have a few and concentrate on their own label brands instead.

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Asda do sell branded lines with 'exclusive to Asda' flavours - think Light n Low yoghurts, can only buy the coconut flavour one there. As it as Asda exclusive on the case. Think some branded ice creams are like this as well...

robin58

Well the publicity of the Boss of Sainsburys saying there will be no staff cuts is BS. My local Sainsburys is removing 15 tean leader jobs and replacing them with 5 jobs which all 15 have to compete for.

As for price cuts, rubbish. Sainsburys is promoting '100's of price cuts' at the moment because people had moved away to other competitors because they found 'customer experience' was not enough to get the muggles in.

Art_Vandelay_2

robin58 wrote: »

... Sainsburys is promoting '100's of price cuts' at the moment because people had moved away to other competitors because they found 'customer experience' was not enough to get the muggles in.

I must say the 'customer experience' the last couple of times I have been to Sainsburys has been totally non-existent. God forbid you should want to go into the supermarket around 2:00-3:00pm, customers lining up by the tills but only a single member of staff on the checkouts.
A supervisor was standing idly by, informing people that all her staff go home by around 2:30 and there was not much she could do about it. Customers were told they could wait a while until cover showed up, but they should probably scan their entire trolleys full of shopping themselves!