Asda sales growth slowed ahead of leadership shake-up

Asda’s food sales slowed in the weeks before Allan Leighton stepped back from leading the grocer’s turnaround, to be replaced by a former Morrisons and Tesco boss.

The discount supermarket grew its like-for-like food sales by 0.1 per cent in its third quarter, marking a slowdown from the significant uplift in sales it had seen [...]