date:Jun 12, 2014
ainsbury's, which is battling with Wal-Mart Stores' Asda to be the UK's No. 2 supermarket, said sales at stores open over a year fell 1.1 percent, excluding fuel, over the 12 weeks to June 7, its fiscal first quarter.
That compared with analysts' forecasts of down 0.5-1.5 percent and a fall of 3.1 percent in the previous quarter - a decline that followed nine unbroken years of sales growth.
Last week Tesco reported a 3.8 percent fall in first-quarter like-for-like sales, its worst quarterly pe