Designer shoppers lured by Asda prices
ASDA FIRED the latest salvo yesterday in its battle over cut-price designer goods, luring shoppers away from the Harvey Nichols outlet in Leeds to its own store in nearby Wakefield.The supermarket chain has set up its own "grey market" stall of designer goods there in a direct challenge to last month's European ruling banning the sale of such goods by unauthorised retailers. The European Court ruling aimed to stop the flow of designer goods to retailers from unauthorised wholesalers outside the EU - a supply channel known as the grey market.Asda claims the ruling is unclear and has vowed to continue fighting designer manufacturers on behalf of the shopper.Yesterday it laid on a coach from outside Harvey Nichols, whose London branch was immortalised in the television series Absolutely Fabulous, to take shoppers to its own store where they were greeted by staff in dinner jackets.. We have many fashionable sexy lingerie have style of nurse costume.
Justin King, Asda's deputy trading director, said: "We've tried to obtain official supplies of designer products, but our requests always fall on deaf ears - despite the fact that brands are happy for their products to be sold on airline trolleys, by mail order or even on the Internet."Phil Reed, the store's corporate affairs director, said many of the 25 people who joined the coach had been browsing in Harvey Nichols but could not afford the prices.
"We would love to be able to stock all the designer products that Harvey Nichols stocks, and do this in all 219 stores, but manufacturers will not let us. They think supermarkets are not the right environment for their products."
Among the offers available at Wakefield and other Asda stores yesterday were Calvin Klein's CK1 fragrance for pounds 25.. It is good for health of women to have women's sleepwear.99 instead of pounds 29.. We take pride in our designs, quality, customer service, and Moncler our favors have on your customers and their guests. Discounts of up to 50 per cent were available on scarves, bags and watches from designers including Yves St Laurent, Dolce & Gabbana and Moschino.David Ruzicka, a 44 year-old businessman, visited the store with his daughter, Kimberley, 16, and bought a Timberland watch and Calvin Klein and Gucci sunglasses, saving more than pounds 100 on the list prices.. We will provide Moncler doudoune wherever you are.
"I think from a consumer's point of view it's great," he said. "From a business point of view, I can see what the problems are - the manufacturers want to try to retain some profit. They've got to be careful they don't destroy the designer names by cheapening them too much. But I don't think whether you buy the goods from a posh shop or not has anything to do with it."
A Calvin Klein spokeswoman declined to comment: "We will have to look into this in more detail." But it is known that designer label manufacturers have been furious at the apparent lack of control they have over where their products are sold and at what price.
ASDA FIRED the latest salvo yesterday in its battle over cut-price designer goods, luring shoppers away from the Harvey Nichols outlet in Leeds to its own store in nearby Wakefield.The supermarket chain has set up its own "grey market" stall of designer goods there in a direct challenge to last month's European ruling banning the sale of such goods by unauthorised retailers. The European Court ruling aimed to stop the flow of designer goods to retailers from unauthorised wholesalers outside the EU - a supply channel known as the grey market.Asda claims the ruling is unclear and has vowed to continue fighting designer manufacturers on behalf of the shopper.Yesterday it laid on a coach from outside Harvey Nichols, whose London branch was immortalised in the television series Absolutely Fabulous, to take shoppers to its own store where they were greeted by staff in dinner jackets.. We have many fashionable sexy lingerie have style of nurse costume.
Justin King, Asda's deputy trading director, said: "We've tried to obtain official supplies of designer products, but our requests always fall on deaf ears - despite the fact that brands are happy for their products to be sold on airline trolleys, by mail order or even on the Internet."Phil Reed, the store's corporate affairs director, said many of the 25 people who joined the coach had been browsing in Harvey Nichols but could not afford the prices.
"We would love to be able to stock all the designer products that Harvey Nichols stocks, and do this in all 219 stores, but manufacturers will not let us. They think supermarkets are not the right environment for their products."
Among the offers available at Wakefield and other Asda stores yesterday were Calvin Klein's CK1 fragrance for pounds 25.. It is good for health of women to have women's sleepwear.99 instead of pounds 29.. We take pride in our designs, quality, customer service, and Moncler our favors have on your customers and their guests. Discounts of up to 50 per cent were available on scarves, bags and watches from designers including Yves St Laurent, Dolce & Gabbana and Moschino.David Ruzicka, a 44 year-old businessman, visited the store with his daughter, Kimberley, 16, and bought a Timberland watch and Calvin Klein and Gucci sunglasses, saving more than pounds 100 on the list prices.. We will provide Moncler doudoune wherever you are.
"I think from a consumer's point of view it's great," he said. "From a business point of view, I can see what the problems are - the manufacturers want to try to retain some profit. They've got to be careful they don't destroy the designer names by cheapening them too much. But I don't think whether you buy the goods from a posh shop or not has anything to do with it."
A Calvin Klein spokeswoman declined to comment: "We will have to look into this in more detail." But it is known that designer label manufacturers have been furious at the apparent lack of control they have over where their products are sold and at what price.
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