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Case Study: ASDA

Summary

Bluestone One at Asda Ashington was chosen to rejuvenate every area of the store’s sales floor space with extensive activity across 12 weeks.

We deployed multi-skilled split shift teams actioning merchandising relays and fixture moves throughout the full shop floor through the night, with further teams deployed through the day supporting the store colleagues and helping customers continue to shop as normal as the improvements are being made throughout the store.

Challenges

With an extensive General Merchandising Department, there were a number of intricate merchandising solutions required. We wanted to ensure that through the first phase of this refit, availability of all lines were maintained at all times whilst also minimising disruption to customers’ shopping experience as the improvements to the store are being made over the 12 weeks.

Results

The working relationship, communication and collaboration with the main construction team was essential to ensure the smooth phasing of fixture and merchandising moves throughout the 12 weeks.

This enabled all planned works to be completed in good time, which allowed additional support to the store colleagues to support the night fill replenishment, ready for the store to re-open with good levels of stock fill each day.

Meet the team: Martin Sweeney

Meet Martin Sweeney, Installations Director

How did your journey at Bluestones One begin and what has it been like since?I joined the business in February 2020 and was really excited with my role and new opportunity to develop. Unfortunately, I was grounded slightly by the pandemic. This then presented the business and me with lots of obstacles which we had never experienced but with the support from the internal team and from our partner company, Bluestones Investment Group (BIG), we overcame these. Whilst many businesses have failed to survive, Installations continued to develop and grow its customer base. The next few years may present many challenges, but I am excited to drive the business forward in the coming years. What do you enjoy about working in this industry?I believe you must be a self-motivator and be ready to tackle daily challenges. Each day presents itself with new challenges, and whilst this can be difficult, you get a sense of achievement when you deliver for the customer. One thing that really excites me is the opportunity to see lots of the UK whilst on client and site meetings. We have a fantastic internal support team who are young and ambitious, and this allows us to develop.

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