{"id":9484,"date":"2018-11-08T09:46:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T09:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=9484"},"modified":"2018-11-08T09:46:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T09:46:40","slug":"sainsburys-sees-a-boost-from-the-argos-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/sainsburys-sees-a-boost-from-the-argos-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sainsbury\u2019s sees a boost from the Argos deal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9493 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/shutterstock_1100824568-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/shutterstock_1100824568-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/shutterstock_1100824568-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/shutterstock_1100824568-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/shutterstock_1100824568-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/shutterstock_1100824568.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sainsbury\u2019s says its half-year result has been boosted by its takeover of retailer Argos.<\/p>\n<p>Sainsburys added Argos to their store and the retailer said adding Argos was \u201cdriving an increase in trading intensity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sainsbury\u2019s is the UK\u2019s second largest supermarket; the supermarket now has plans to merge with rival supermarket Asda. In the few months Sainsbury\u2019s added Argos their profits rose by 20%.<\/p>\n<p>For the first half until 22<sup>nd<\/sup> September 2018, Sainsburys made a pre-tax profit of 302 million pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Recently Sainsbury\u2019s and Argos announced that they are offering 11,500 jobs to offer over the busy Black Friday and Christmas period. They are all temporary positions include 5,500 at Sainsbury\u2019s and 6,00 at Argos. These jobs are needed to help with the demand for in-store and online shopping. The roles will range from caf\u00e9 and counter staff to online assistant, drivers and cyclists to help deliver festive orders to customers\u2019 doorsteps.\u00a0 The jobs will be contracted to 15 hours per week. Argos are looking for customer advisors and stock assistants to help meet customer demand for this years Black Friday and Christmas gifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sainsbury\u2019s says its half-year result has been boosted by its takeover of retailer Argos. Sainsburys added Argos to their store and the retailer said adding Argos was \u201cdriving an increase in trading intensity&#8221;. Sainsbury\u2019s is the UK\u2019s second largest supermarket; the supermarket now has plans to merge with rival supermarket Asda. In the few months&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":9491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9484"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9497,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9484\/revisions\/9497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}