By James Davey

LONDON (Reuters) -Asda, Britain’s third-largest supermarket group, said on Thursday that sales in its current quarter would be dented by disruption linked to the final phase of a major IT overhaul separating its systems from former owner Walmart.

Walmart sold Asda to Zuber and Mohsin Issa and private equity firm TDR Capital in 2021. Since then, Asda has been separating more than 2,500 systems from Walmart, which retains a 10% stake in Asda.

The project completed this week, with all stores, food depots and office systems operating on Asda-owned technology.

“The collective rate of completion did cause some temporary disruption with product availability and in our online experience, which will impact our sales outturn in the current (third) quarter,” Asda executive chairman

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