ASDA

ASDA is a supermarket chain in the UK which offers various products like groceries, furniture, video games, electrical appliances, gift articles, CDs, DVDs etc. With around 400 superstores in UK it is the second largest next to TESCO.

ASDA was established in the year 1965. In 1989, ASDA introduced the 'George' range of clothing which was an immediate success. Later in 1999 ASDA was purchased by the American retail giant WAL- MART. In 2005 ASDA expanded its regime to Northern Ireland as well.

ASDA online Store

The customers of ASDA have the advantage to shop online. You can order for almost every ASDA product including groceries through the online store. Their financial services offer credit cards, personal loans and insurance. ASDA also organises package tours to selected destinations, once you've registered for it ASDA will take care of everything from booking your air tickets to hotel accommodation. Household services like changing your gas and electricity suppliers can also be taken care through their online store.

ASDA Gift Section

When you click the gift section of ASDA online store you can see the page loading to the website of Francis Frith collection. The gift collection at ASDA is brought to you by Francis Frith Collection, UK.

The Frith archive founded as early as 1860 is a collection of photographs of Britain taken by Francis Frith and his successors. The collection includes over 365,000 photographs of 7,000 villages and towns taken between 1860 and 1970. It is the best topographical record and is artistically valuable. More than everything anyone who were born and brought up in Britain or has any personal attachment to Britain will find it priceless.

ASDA-Frith webpage gives you an opportunity to 'Explore your past'; you can find your school, place you grew up, place you married, the streets you walked and all those places which has personal importance here.

Every photo here might bring you back a memory. Write your memories to 'Your Memories' Section and share it with your friends. Browse through the shared memories of friends, it is sure make you cry with happiness.

Gifts and Stationery section includes jigsaws, calendars, gift voucher boxes, notelets and address books. You can also select gifts from other categories like Photographic Prints, History Maps, Frith Books and Aerial Photographs. All of which has old photographs as illustrations either in black and white or sepia prints, and a few in colour.

Gifts and Stationery

Frith jigsaws are illustrated with photographs, maps or aerial photographs. Hence it will be a challenging task to piece it together; you will need to apply your local knowledge and memories to bring these 520 pieces together. The size of the jigsaw is 15x18 inches.

The most exciting part is that you can select the illustrations which you want on the jigsaw by browsing through the Frith collection. If you want a photo jigsaw arrange four photos of your choice, check the preview and if you are satisfied add it to your basket.

Personalise your calendar with photos of your choice. It is up to you to decide which month should carry which photo. You can add captions for the cover as well for every month and can also choose the calendar style from the given layouts.

Notelets at Frith are small cards (4x6 inches) each containing 12 blank note cards illustrated with nostalgic photographs. It can be send to your loved ones to convey messages close to your heart. Themes for the photographs can be selected from children, castles, countryside, gardening and seaside.

Through the gift voucher boxes you can receive framed photographs or maps. Two gift voucher boxes are available at Frith namely 'Framed print gift voucher' and 'Framed map gift voucher'. It will contain a book listing photographs or maps (respectively) and a voucher. You or the gift recipient can select photos or maps from the website or from the book and return the completed voucher. The framed photographs and maps will be delivered with no additional cost.

The frith address book is a classical collection with over 150 photographs some printed full page and others as vignettes. Descriptions of old life style which has now disappeared are also given. This address book has a hard cover back will last very long and has space for more than 600 address.

Print and frame your favourite photographs at frith. High quality prints the photographs will be printed and send to you in the way you want it. There is a wide range of print styles available, a few of them are black and white prints, canvas prints, gallery prints, three photo prints, fine arts prints, poster prints etc. The prints will be framed in oak stained frame with a cream mount.

In this section Frith can deliver historical maps on any post code in England and Wales and that too drawn between 1860 and 1910. It can show light to the gradual development of the towns and villages.

Victorian country maps of the traditional England and Wales, country maps of Scotland and Ireland are also available.

The books collection at frith is really wonderful. Books with historical importance like 'Ancient Britain' and 'The English man's home', books about your local town or country like 'Around the Kent Coast' and 'Ludlow' (over 300 local titles)are available. Along with this, books which appeals to your personal interest like castles, railways and anthologies are also available.

ASDA offers 3 delivery modes-Saver, Standard and Express. Saver mode is cheap but will take more time to deliver the product. Standard mode is more expensive but the carrier time is only 2-3 days. The express mode is the fastest with 24 hours carrier time, but the negative side is the service is quite expensive. Your products will be delivered for free if a single order comes to £40.

One important thing is carrier time is not calculated from the date of receiving the order but from the date of despatch. Products like calendars and jigsaws need an assembling time of 2-5 working days. So the carrier time is calculated after the assembling time.

ASDA promises a safe shopping. Your credit/debit card details are never stored at ASDA, the card number and other particulars are encrypted with the SSL hence no one can see or use your details.

Registration process is done so that it is easy to manage your albums, wishlists, memories and the like, your email address is safe because in the privacy policy given it says that the email address will never be sold or rented at ASDA.

With novel gifts from Francis Frith Collection, the gift shopping at ASDA is truly a great experience. Prints are of high clarity and the frames durable making it a gift you can cherish for a life time. If you find any familiar face while looking at the photographs, it becomes a treasure you will never again receive.

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