Grocer

What does it mean to eat locally? There are two primary forms of “local” when it comes to food says Roslynn Brian from the Department of Environment and Society. One, “Direct to consumer (farmers to you) and [two], direct to retail/ food service (farmer to restaurant, hospital, schools, and organization).” Local food movement is a movement which aims to connect food producers and food consumers within a 100 mile radius of eachother. The local food movement is a growing trend in America today.…

Succinctly assess the attractiveness of the supermarket industry in 2013. (10 points) Overall, the supermarket industry is unattractive in 2013 due to the following conditions: Low threat of new entrants because of strong barriers to entry and the dominance of established players in the industry, especially when including the grocery component of discount retailers, warehouse clubs, and pharmacy chains. Economies of scale is achieved through high production volumes and low costs, making it…

Sunshine Company in 1908. The first design for the cookie was a wreath on the side and in the middle was the word “OREO” and in the United States of America it was sold for twenty-five cents. The very first Oreo cookie was sold on March 6, 1912 to a grocer in Hoboken, New Jersey. The spectacular treat was renamed to the “Oreo Sandwich” in 1921, and…

You’re running late and don’t have time for breakfast so you grab an apple as you sprint out the door. Do you think about where that apple was grown, or how many miles it had to travel before getting into your hands? No, you eat the apple and get on with your day. In the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle; Barbara Kingsolver explains in depth the effects of eating locally and shares her family's experience of their year-long commitment to living off the land while eating locally. In the first…

Moonshadow tells readers about the exhausting work he needs to do by saying “I managed to get a job as a grocer… by the time I got home, cooked dinner, and did my lessons and chores, I would be so tired that I would go straight to bed… Eventually I wound up running our household”(Yep,1975). Moonshadow has to do many of the tiring jobs that his father is obligated…

Deciding on the investment and the extent of an advertising campaign is an important decision for every type of business. Therefore these are big decisions for the two biggest, competing “”deep discount” grocers” (The Economist, 2015) in the world, Lidl and Aldi, too. They are daily competing against each other. In this competition the extent and investment on marketing campaigns takes over a key role. By deciding on those important actions both discounters have to take the advertising actions…

Even-though it is difficult to stop food industries to distribute fatty foods, however possible actions can be carried out by the government by increasing tax on these unhealthy commodities and subsidising the cost of healthy food in supermarkets and green grocers. The money raised through tax should be reinvested to set up health…

She was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, in Skopje, Yugoslavia, on August 27, 1910. At the time she was born, Albania was apart of the Ottoman Empire. Her parents were grocers and she had a very close relationship with her mother after her father died when she was young. Her mother opened a cloth and embroidery shop to support Agnes and herself after the passing of her husband. From a very young age Agnes had a religious…

Tall beer bottles, Heartbreak Hotel, ducktail haircuts, spike heels, flat heels, hula hoops, and Mello-Rolls dominated the late 50s and early 60s. When I grew up you had to go to a candy store or drugstore to get ice cream in days gone by because home freezer storage was rare in those days. A Mello-Roll was a three-inch-long ice cream drum about one inch in diameter, wrapped in peel-away paper with a blue print on it that sometimes blotted onto the ice cream itself. The candy store operator…

The concept of the apothecary has existed for centuries. Derived from the Latin term apotheca, meaning a place where herbs and spices were stored. The role of the apothecary has always been connected to their familiarity with plants and herbs and their ability to administer them as remedies. In ancient Greece this was very similar to what we would consider folk medicine today, such as using mint for gastrointestinal issues. By the sixteenth century apothecaries had become the equivalent of our…