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Is Colorado suffering from too many food deserts, and what is the government’s role in combating the issue of fresh food availability in local communities? I'm researching Colorado food deserts to better understand how the State of Colorado addresses the communities that lack access to fresh food. As I don’t know much about the government’s stance on sustaining fresh food, this topic could potentially affect my ability to access ample nutrition. I've often heard friends comment on the dense fast…

Introduction Piggly Wiggly has been known to many as the hometown grocery store since its debut in Tennessee back in 1916 (Piggly Wiggly, 2011). Clarence Saunders, the founder of Piggly Wiggly, developed a grocery store that was considered to be self sufficient and was considered the “first” for many of the things that patrons consider norms at any given grocery store now days. What patrons want the most from their shopping experience, though, isn’t the idea of supporting the small town grocer…

Filling That Fruit One of the many folk groups that I belong to is the fruit filling folk group. This is just a fun way of saying that I am a produce clerk inside a grocery store. At this position I preform all tasks that have to do with vegetables and fruits. My job is also maintaining a clean and proficient work space and environment. In my position I fill all of the fruit and vegetables after they have been properly conditioned. I also have to clean the trays and racks that hold the produce…

Shopping for groceries is one thing that everyone does in their life, but not all grocery stores provide a good shopping experience for their customers probably because of their “Profit first” business theory. Another reason is that employees in the shop is not being helpful or being friendly. There are different markets or stores available for shopping, but a store that provides pleasant shopping experience is always more preferable to customers because it makes their life easier. Often times,…

One business industry I have knowledge about is the grocery store industry. I worked as a cashier which is at the non-management level for about two years, that job taught me a lot about a business and how they work. It is hard to pick only two business intelligence categories because they are all so relevant in this field. Many people don’t realize what goes into making a company function smoothly and the different bits of intelligence that apply to an industry. A grocery store, I feel, is a…

Motivational Situation at Asda Asda is one of the biggest and leading grocery retail stores in the UK. They first got their start in 1920 in Northern England as a simple dairy farm. Over the years they expanded into Grocery Super Stores and had a total of 200 stores. Asda main selling point was, to sell at lower cost and sell as much as they can. But due to the 1991 economic changes and lack of communication through the executive’s department, the company began to fail. Going from 1 billion…

Not knowing The most unaware anyone can be is when shopping. The fully stocked shelves that have all types of merchandise in various different shapes and colors can make one get lost in the moment. Coming in for a quick stock up on a favorite can lead two bags of merchandise that one didn’t need when coming through the motion-censored doors. These daily struggles aren’t just happening at departments store, but also at your local grocery store. Seeing that canned corn is on the Buy One get One…

The protagonist/ narrator of John Updike’s short story “A&P”, is a caucasian, heterosexual, nineteen year old male, by the name of Sammy. The story takes place in the summer, on a Thursday afternoon, in small town north of Boston, Massachusetts. The story takes place over a short amount of time, when three young caucasion females walk into the local A&P with only their bathing suits on. Throughout the story Sammy 's emotions turn from lust at the beginning of the story (when the three females…

Customer Service Standard and Store Ambience and Layout The store stocks a wide variety of services and goods, which allows for Reed Supermarkets to be a one-stop shop for consumers in the area, driving traffic into stores and enticing potential customers to position themselves around their store. The customer service standard of the Reed Supermarkets is exceptional. Not only is this a huge differentiator in an increasingly automated world, Reed Supermarkets also pays special attention to its…

The Supermarket “Prime Real Estate” describes how Marion Nestle is explaining to her readers how supermarkets and grocery stores all around the world manipulate shoppers into impulse buying items that are not necessary needs. In her essay “The Supermarket: Prime Real Estate,” she shows how much research has been done to have stores design to the correct layout so their customers spend more money than they intended. Also, it describes how researchers have conducted studies to prove that the…