date:Mar 19, 2014
grocery retail is a growing top line. That's what we've achieved for nine years.
Sainsbury's said sales at stores open over a year fell 3.1 percent, excluding fuel, in the 10 weeks to March 15, its fiscal fourth quarter.
That compared with analysts' forecasts in a range of down 2-3 percent and growth in the third quarter of 0.2 percent.
The firm faced a tough comparative number - a rise of 3.6 percent in the same period last year, when it benefited from the discovery of horsemeat in competito