Along with other supermarket giants, Asda is a hugely common brand with many people often mentioning its name without a second thought.
But many people are now only just realising how Asda got its name. It's all to do with a 1965 merger, according to the Mirror.
Brothers Peter and Fred Asquith were running a butcher's shop in Yorkshire but, after a trip to America, saw the potential for an "under one roof" store, after visiting the Piggly Wiggly, possibly the world's first supermarket.
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The brothers later wanted to expand, and so contacted Noel Stockdale at Associated Dairies, and thus the fantastic retail partnership was born on May 3 1965. Therefore, ASquith and DAiries came together and the name ASDA was born.
People are still discovering the true meaning behind the name to this day, as newsreader Alastair Stewart tweeted: "Without Google, do you know what the name ASDA derives from?" Another Twitter user said: "I don't know anything without Google, so no."
Another said: "No, sorry, but about 35 years ago I used to know what BEJAM stood for! It was all the initials of the owners/children, I think! We had to learn about the company to 'earn' stars on our name badges, like McDs!"
Some did know what it stood for though, and one woman gushed: "YES! I had a four-week summer job on George and they had a week's training about this!!!"
Another mentioned that it had come up in a quiz recently, so they'd learned the answer that way.
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