Asda has announced that it has selected Fujitsu UK and Ireland as its IT partner, as the supermarket chain embarks on a project to rebrand the 147 Netto stores that it acquired last year.
As part of the deal, Fujitsu will decommission old Netto systems and conduct a full in-store IT refresh, including servers, tills, point-of-sales terminals and self-service checkouts, in line with infrastructure in Asda's other 370 stores nationwide.
Each Netto store will be closed for two weeks while the rebrand takes place.
The rebrand is scheduled to start this month and will be completed by the end of the year.
It follows a ruling by the Office of Fair Trading in March that Asda's £778m takeover of the budget retailer will not be referred to the Competition Commission.
I am glad that Fujitsu has been selected to provide services for the Asda Netto re-brand as both are adept at deceiving and cheating their customers so it is a match made in heaven. I am confident that Fujitsu will fail to deliver on time and that Asda will sue for non-delivery and charge their customers extra to cover the legal costs. That is certainly a place where I will not be shopping any time soon.
Posted by: Sarah Smith 21 Sep 2011
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