Asda to launch Express convenience stores

Retailer to open its first two standalone convenience stores before Christmas

Asda is opening is first convenience stores outside a petrol station as its new owners search for ways to expand the UK's third largest supermarket chain and overtake Sainsbury's.

The two Asda Express stores - in Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham, and Tottenham Hale, north London - will open before Christmas with 30 sites planned over the coming year.