Tag: Asda

Asda changes its yoghurts range to reduce food waste

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has announced a major change to over half of its own-brand yoghurts by removing Use By dates and replacing them with Best Before dates to help customers combat food waste in the home. *The change follows data from climate action NGO WRAP which says that half of all yoghurt wasted in UK households is in unopened packs. The report also showed that 70 per cent of all the yoghurt wasted in the home is due to the product ‘not being used in time’, with the date label cited as…

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Asda reduces gender pay gap

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has recently published its gender pay figures for 2022 which show a year-on-year reduction in both its mean and median pay gaps. In a report submitted to the Government’s Gender Pay website, Asda confirmed the following: The median pay difference between all male and female colleagues is 4.7% (2021: 6.1%) The mean pay difference between all male and female colleagues is 7.6% (2021: 8%) A 0% median pay gap for hourly paid retail store colleagues who make up 84% of Asda’s total workforce Asda’s gender pay figures remain significantly lower than the…

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Asda revamps refill proposition and guarantees cheaper prices

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has announced a new ‘refill price promise’ which guarantees that each refill product will be cheaper than packaged alternatives as part of its new refill proposition. The supermarket first introduced refill two years ago and has been continually testing and learning, working with customers to find what most appeals to them. Asda has partnered with WRAP and Unilever, with funding from Innovate UK, to find out customer barriers to participation, so it could look at ways it can increase participation. Clear pricing was the top priority, emphasised by the…

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Asda makes big change to its toilet paper

Stuart Mitchell

Asda has become the first UK supermarket to change all of its own brand toilet rolls to double length in a move which will see it remove 74 tonnes of plastic and save 760 tonnes of cardboard a year. The supermarket has doubled the amount of toilet paper per roll and reduced the number of rolls per pack on one of its most popular own brand products, significantly reducing its cardboard and plastic usage in the process and removing over 1,200 lorries from the road each year. The new Shades…

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Asda invests into Veterans’ charity to train ex-military as HGV Drivers

Stuart Mitchell

Great Manchester based charity, Veterans into Logistics have received a welcomed funding boost of £40,000 from Asda, that will enable the charity to train 10 armed forces veterans into new careers as HGV Drivers. The charity has a two year established partnership with Asda Logistic Services who support their mission of preventing homelessness and unemployment in the veteran community. This significant donation from Asda will help to provide training and mentoring for the veterans to pass their HGV licences, resulting in new driving careers. Veterans into Logistics CCO Major Ian…

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