{"id":22555,"date":"2018-10-26T14:33:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T13:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=22555"},"modified":"2018-10-26T14:33:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T13:33:20","slug":"asda-to-cut-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=22555","title":{"rendered":"Asda To Cut Jobs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ShoppingWell, well, well. I just did a bit of delving to find out why someone had found the blog on the search term \u201cwhy is UK productivity so low\u201d, which had thrown up an article I\u2019d pretty much forgotten I\u2019d written<\/a>. Maybe it\u2019s a coincidence, but I mentioned Asda in that.<\/p>\n

Then, browsing the BBC website, I found this article which says Asda is considering cutting up to 2,500 jobs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Asda has two problems: 1) too many chiefs, and 2) most of them are incompetent.<\/p>\n

I shop in Asda regularly, though I am increasingly having to complete my shop elsewhere because of the stock levels. My branch is open 24 hours, but its shelf stock does not match that detail in any way, shape, or form. Asda stocks up in the middle of the night and early morning, then that\u2019s pretty much it until the next night. On top of that, they keep running \u201cRollback\u201d offers on things, and haven\u2019t cottoned on to the fact that this encourages the owners of corner shops to come in and buy everything up so they can resell it at the RRP in their own store. By 10am, the shelves are empty of those items. I\u2019m also pretty sure some people buy some things on Rollback to sell on Ebay at the normal price.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the thing about large retailers. They can buy at much better prices than smaller sellers can, and even their normal retail prices are better than you can find in the cash & carries. Beer is a prime example – Asda\u2019s normal prices for a case of 12 bottles are \u00a33 – \u00a34 cheaper than the cash & carry offers, but when they put it on Rollback, it can be as much as \u00a310 cheaper! When that happens, even pub owners\u00a0 go in and buy up stock. This Rollback discount problem also applies to many items in grocery, snacks, and confectionery.<\/p>\n

Asda also has a problem with stock control. The amount of shelf space it gives to various products is fixed for long periods of time. So it doesn\u2019t matter if they repeatedly sell out of one particular item (even a chimp would realise that\u2019s because people want it), they will still maintain row after row of slower selling items, and maintain the 2 sq. ft. they allow for the item that is selling. Then, when they run out of warehouse stock, they will make no attempt to get anymore of that product until the next scheduled delivery – often weeks later. Management cannot see that if they held stock of things that sell, they would sell more of it.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the Dairy items. I don\u2019t piss about with low-fat stuff – if it\u2019s got 50% less fat, it\u2019s also got 50% less taste – yet they have shelf after shelf of that, whilst the normal-fat stuff sells out completely every day, and the shelves stay empty until the next midnight re-stock.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no wonder that they\u2019re struggling. And they\u2019ll keep struggling until they start taking on managers who have a clue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, well, well. I just did a bit of delving to find out why someone had found the blog on the search term \u201cwhy is UK productivity so low\u201d, which had thrown up an article I\u2019d pretty much forgotten I\u2019d written. Maybe it\u2019s a coincidence, but I mentioned Asda in that. Then, browsing the BBC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[93,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}