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Asda and Sainsbury's, the Potential Merger
Topic Started: Apr 28 2018, 11:11 PM (231 Views)
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Not since 2004, when Morrisons took over Safeway to become one of the "big four" supermarkets, has grocery retailing in the UK been shaken up.

The planned merger of two huge supermarkets should be an interesting one to follow, more jobs will be created from this since Sainsbury's currently has Argos under its wing and could potentially put several hundreds of Argos branches within Asda stores, which can only be a good thing since more and more people are using eBay to buy things, meaning they can 'click and collect' then get their shopping done in Asda (if it's their preferred store). But would these Argos's be 24/7 in line with some of the 24/7 Asda's?
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From what I've read, they already have! I also think that the merger would put them slightly ahead of Tesco, in the mid-low 30% share of supermarkets or something, so it'd be all good.
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From what I've read, they already have! I also think that the merger would put them slightly ahead of Tesco, in the mid-low 30% share of supermarkets or something, so it'd be all good.
Aren't Asda owned by/are the same company as Walmart?

It's confusing, because Tescos is the market leader in the UK, but isn't even close in terms of worldwide, wheras Asda only have a small proportion, but in terms of worldwide market, they are number one. (I believe lidl is third, or something).
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Asda are owed by Wal*Mart, yes, they were bought out in the summer of 1999 (those were the days!) and since then, their market share, in the UK, has dropped behind Tesco and Sainsbury's, despite the fact that Asda seemingly have more 24/7 stores than the rest!

You can probably compare it to this forum and the posting statistics, were merging the third and fourth highest posters for the month would give them a 34.86% share of the posts compared to my 28.46% share (327 to 267), which isn't a lot but still puts pressure on the top dog to act and gives them competition
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You can probably compare it to this forum and the posting statistics, were merging the third and fourth highest posters for the month would give them a 34.86% share of the posts compared to my 28.46% share (327 to 267), which isn't a lot but still puts pressure on the top dog to act and gives them competition
I don't think anyone here feels under pressure to post more than someone else :P
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TGLucario475
May 1 2018, 10:33 PM
You can probably compare it to this forum and the posting statistics, were merging the third and fourth highest posters for the month would give them a 34.86% share of the posts compared to my 28.46% share (327 to 267), which isn't a lot but still puts pressure on the top dog to act and gives them competition
I don't think anyone here feels under pressure to post more than someone else :P
What about during the posting sprees?
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You can probably compare it to this forum and the posting statistics, were merging the third and fourth highest posters for the month would give them a 34.86% share of the posts compared to my 28.46% share (327 to 267), which isn't a lot but still puts pressure on the top dog to act and gives them competition
I don't think anyone here feels under pressure to post more than someone else :P
What about during the posting sprees?
It's not so much that I would want to post more than say - you. Just that I would want to enjoy the height of posting. But, yeah, also "gotta post 'em all."
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