H-E-B

The internship I embarked on this past semester was at my place of employment, Central Grocers, Inc., located in Joliet, Illinois. Central Grocers is structured as a retail cooperative, owned by the independent supermarket retailers that Central Grocers supplies. It is the seventh largest grocery cooperative in America and supplies over 20,000 products to more than 500 independent supermarket stores in the Midwest, meaning they have the second largest market share in the Chicago area market. In terms of the company’s performance, it made 1,944 and 1,483 million dollars in sales in consolidated and wholesale operations, respectively, in its 2015 fiscal year. This is a decrease from the 1,966 and 1,500 million dollars it made in 2014. This decline can be attributed to an overall slump in the grocery industry as well as growing competition from big-box stores and lack of participation among its members. As mentioned previously, Central Grocers is the seventh largest grocery cooperative in the United States, meaning that cooperatives are more prevalent than one might assume. The six stores ahead of Central Grocers are Topco Associates, Wakefern Food Corp., Associated Wholesale Grocers, Unified Grocers, Associated Wholesalers Inc., and Associated Food Stores. To be a cooperative, the company must be owned and controlled democratically by their members (the people who use the cooperative’s services or buy its goods, not by outside investors), where cooperative members elect their…

The Grocery Shopping Norm Invading someone’s personal space, shaking hands when you meet someone, and saying “thank you” when someone does something nice for you are all examples of social norms that most people practice. A social norm is a rule of behavior that is expected or considered acceptable in a group or society. From early childhood, we are taught many different social norms on how to act in a given environment or situation. Although most people follow the same social norms, some…

hidden bias and social identity. Winter’s defines xenophobia as people being conditioned to fear others who are different from them (Winters, 2002). He also explains that hidden bias is unspoken tendencies that can be seen when observing the environment (Winters, 2002). For example, in “The Lurking Fear,” the narrator does not like the Dutch or his family as he thinks they are inferior to him due to not being English (Lovecraft, H., 2009). Finally, social identity is seen as the group or…

Historians and International Relations scholars have long had a relationship that allows for interworking, while distinct differences still remain separating the two. In studying the past, a historian and an international relations scholar would take into account the past as a force that generates the questions and theories of both parties. On the other hand, there lies a difference in the way that the historian would place more emphasis on recounting history and international events for their…

in order to fully develop their abilities” (2007). Without a teacher to challenge E.D., her gifted abilities could be negatively affected. References Matthews, M. (1992, October). Gifted Students Talk About Cooperative Learning. Retrieved from Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development: http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/oct92/vol50/num02/Gifted-Students-Talk-About-Cooperative-Learning.aspx Tips for Teachers: Successful strategies for teaching gifted…

immoral side of human nature within the earnest, kind and friendly community of the barn in order to portray both sides of human nature. By including a character such as Templeton in this community, it illustrates the idea that everyone has the characteristics of Templeton and the other barn animals inside oneself, but what matter’s most is not whether or not you have them, but rather to what degree you act upon them. By having Templeton evolve as a character in the novel, from one full of…

Webster Mudgett) uses his skills of manipulation, charm, and deceit to commit several crimes, including theft, insurance fraud, and murder during the 1893 Chicago World 's Fair. Herman Webster Mudgett was a notorious criminal, responsible for hundreds of deaths, however he was not completely at fault. Many serial killers, themselves, are victims of traumatic events or a psychological disorder. For them, killing is vital for their survival and something they can’t control. In the Devil in the…

Sometimes, he would fill the hotel rooms with gas and his guests would silently die in their sleep, or he would use chloroform soaked rags and suffocated them to death. After he murdered his guests, he would then burn their bodies at the bottom of the hotel’s basement. From these crimes, Holmes is said to be one of America’s first known serial killers (Larson, 2003). Furthermore, building the fair was a long and brutal process since it had to be completed in a short about of time. Daniel H.…

Erik Larson, the author of The Devil in the White City, was born on January 3, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York. He studied Russian history at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated at the top of his class. One year later, Larson enrolled at another Ivy League School, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he graduated in 1978. After starting his career as a journalist for The Bucks County Courier Times in Pennsylvania, he worked for The Wall Street Journal, Time…

The Devil in the White City by: Erik Larson Crown Publishing Group, 2003, and 447 The book "The Devil in the White City" is about the serial killer H.H. Holmes and the architect of the World's Fair Daniel H. Burnham. Who was Daniel H. Burnham? Burnham was a man who rose to prominence. In 1893 Chicago won the bid for the World's Exposition. The architects chosen were Burnham and his partner John Root, Burnham and John needed to build something to give their city a better reputation. Burnham…