Grocery store

As a member of the team I was involved in the initial grocery store scavenger hunt. All group members including myself worked together in selecting 5 foods within each of the categories. Once all foods were selected it was my responsibility to calculate unit pricing and price per calorie for fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, butter, margarines, cheeses, and condiments. It was also my responsibility to research unit pricing. I obtain information from all group members and wrote our findings in…

living in food deserts. A food desert is a geographic area—usually urban areas—where it is difficult to buy affordable, fresh, and quality food. These people don’t have accessible, affordable grocery stores and therefore must either by perishable and often less healthy options at neighborhood convenience stores. This problem especially affects people living in lower income areas and it is detrimental to their health and well being as well. My hometown of Racine, Wisconsin has serval large…

The Healthy Shop and Drop is one of few online grocery ordering and delivering apps. With that, its launch comes with many strengths. It is the only online app that orders specifically healthy foods. It is growing steadily to become one of the most innovative as well as cost effective grocery ordering and delivery services around. The time lapse between ordering and delivery is inside an hour. The list of available items that can be purchased through this app is unlimited. The delivery service…

times as Grocery America continues to struggle and unemployment rates rise. Not only do they fear their organization will fail, they fear not being able to find another job at all. Stockholders fear for the money they have invested in Grocery America and can only hope they recover some of what they have already lost. Customers have a vested interest in Grocery America’s survival as they would reap the benefits of the positive changes that are to be made. Conversely, other grocers hope for…

operates retail stores including, discounts warehouse clubs, grocery and other all-purpose merchandising stores. The original Wal-Mart store, founded in 1962 by Sam Walton along with his wife Helen and younger brother Bud in Rogers, Arkansas (Walton, 2003). With all his experience within other stores Walton decided to come up with his own business model with the intention to be different from other merchants not only in relations of discount but he also focused on opening stores in small rural…

Café, Deli and Natural foods was opened in Norman Oklahoma in 1969 starting as a store for bulk herbs and beans. After time they developed into an organic grocery store. In 1978 new owners took over the store and moved to a new location. They expanded the grocery business by offering more products, but still focused on natural and organic goods. With business going good the company expanded and opened another store in Oklahoma City in the mid-1990’s leaving the Norman location on the back burner…

I went to visit these two stores on a Wednesday when I got off work between 5pm to 7pm. The two grocery stores I chose was: Super Foods: low end Earth Fare: high end I stay in a small city in Alabama, where the population is major over crowed. Just like any other city, the city is split into different selection like; North, East, South, West. From the luxury neighborhoods to the suburbs, to the nice neighborhoods to the “OK” neighborhoods to the low end neighborhoods. Super Foods is located, I…

Grocery List Manager is an application that will manage your grocery list. It will allow you to create shops, add groceries and save it for future use. When you are ready to create a grocery list, you can select groceries from the shop and add to your list. Once the list is ready, all you have to do in the shop is check (bought), uncheck (not found/not needed) etc. and save the list. After several lists created, its intelligent algorithm creates shopping list. If you can update the total price…

There was a time when going to a grocery store was pleasure there was always someone at the door to greet the customers, there were employees in the aisle and even baggers pushing the customer’s carts to their cars. In today’s world, this isn’t common anymore, but there is one grocery store still know for this customer service “Publix.” This supermarket was founded in 1930 in Florida by George Jenkins. But it’s known to be an 85-year old employee-owned company in order to contain a shareholder…

Competitive Strategies Generally, prices and pricing strategies across the grocery industry tend to be fairly homogenous. Firms in the industry often cooperate with each other in terms of pricing in order to retain customers and keep the already low margins as manageable as possible. One of the most common priorities among competitors in the grocery industry is to achieve and maintain an image of everyday low prices. Considering the oligopolistic nature of the industry, it is expected that…