Delays leave shelves bare in Asda Kendal over the weekend

Customers found essential items such as bread, groceries, meats and toiletries were in short supply at the Burton Road store.

Shopper Helen Bell shared photos of the empty shelves, which were reported to have been an issue throughout the weekend of August 17-18. 

There was a limited selection of bread at the store (Image: Helen Bell)

Asda confirmed there were issues with deliveries to the store. 

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A spokesperson said: "Unfortunately some of the scheduled deliveries to our Kendal store were delayed this past weekend, and we would like to apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused. We would like to reassure our customers that the store has since received these deliveries and this now has now been resolved.”

Asda attributed the stocking issues to delays (Image: Helen Bell)

Asda attributed this to an isolated incident at the store. 

The company is currently investing £30 million to increase staff levels to improve its replenishment of stock and cleaning in stores. 

Recent industry data from Kantar found that Asda had 12.7 per cent of the UK grocery market over the three months to July 7, shrinking from 13.6 per cent share a year earlier. 

Asda apologised for the empty shelves (Image: Helen Bell)

The retailer's finance chief Michael Gleeson said on August 8: "It is important to highlight that switching losses to the discounters, Aldi and Lidl as well, have receded.

“We have addressed that well with our price matching programme and are pleased with that.

There was a lack of toilet roll in the store (Image: Helen Bell)

"We are still happy with the longer-term progress we have been making.”

The company is owned by Mohsin Issa and private equity firm TDR Capital. Earlier this year, Mohsin's brother Zuber exited Asda, selling his 22.5 per cent stake to TDR Capital.