date:Jun 13, 2013
e after a plunge in April.
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Sainsbury's performance compared to a first-quarter like-for-like sales fall of 1 percent at Tesco, a 1.8 percent decline at No. 4 grocer Wm Morrison, and a 1.3 percent rise at Asda, albeit for different trading periods.
But it did represent a slowdown from growth of 3.6 percent in the fourth quarter of the 2012-13 year.
That mainly reflected comparisons with an extra bank holiday last year to celebrate the Queen's diamond jubilee but it also reflected pres