Sainsbury’s to splash out £150m on price cuts as it slumps to first-half loss

Sainsbury’s has slumped into the red after taking a one-off charge of £628m to pull out of building 40 new supermarkets and downgrading the value of 40 underperforming stores, just a year after writing off plans for 15 new supermarkets at a cost of £92m.

Justin King insists Sainsbury's will not go the way of Tesco when he departs

Sainsbury's outgoing chief executive Justin King has insisted the supermarket will not unravel when he leaves – as Tesco did after Sir Terry Leahy's departure – despite revealing a second consecutive quarter of falling sales.