FreshDirect Case Study Jeffrey Nash COMPANY NAME/WEBSITE/INDUSTRY FreshDirect/www.freshdirect.com/Online grocery store BACKGROUND/HISTORY FreshDirect is an online grocery store that launched in 2001 offering shopping and delivery service to more than 300 zip codes in the New York tri state area. The company’s current CEO is Jason Ackerman‚ who is also one of its cofounders along with Joseph Fedele. In 2010 FreshDirect reported revenue of more than $250 million an increase of $20 million
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it has been more of a negative than a positive. This policy created tension between the NYPD and the law abiding citizens of New York City because thousands stopped were people of the Black and Latino communities. According to the US Census Bureau NYC has a population of 8‚336‚697 people. Blacks and Latinos make up 53% of the city population. 85% of New Yorkers stopped are Black and Latino men and 6% of that number actually led to an arrest (NYCLU). At this shocking percentage‚ it’s apparent that
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Mary and Joseph Tape were immigrants from China who now resided in the U.S. with their daughter Mamie. Despite Mamie’s clear citizenship‚ being born in the U.S.‚ she was denied education at the local public school. School board members refused to place the children of Chinese immigrants within the public school system and any faculty who disobeyed this policy would be removed from their position. So‚ Mary and Joseph took it upon themselves to fight this prejudice with a letter addressed to the Board
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There are about 41‚000 Chinese restaurants in the United States. Chinese cuisine has been available for a long time in a form that suits American tastes (sometimes called "Chinese-American food"). In the nineteenth century thousands of Chinese workers have arrived to the western territories of United States to build railroads‚ dig mines‚ as well as to perform other types of demanding industrial operations. Early California "chow chow" were simple restaurants managed by the Cantonese Chinese‚ nursing
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was an eye opening experience as it was what I never imagined. Little India trip 1) How have my field trip enriched my understanding of being a Singaporean? -Being a Singaporean Chinese‚ I hardly went to other cultural places except for Chinatown. However‚ a trip to little India helped me to understand the cultural values of another race in Singapore. It helped me to understand what their iconic places for common visiting were. 2) What have I learnt from this visit? I learnt the Indian
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1. In years to come it’ll be Asian countries rather than America or Europe that the world looks to for business‚ politics and culture. 2. For people that live in Asian countries life is changing fast. People in areas that used to be poor are starting to earn good incomes. They’re spending more money and the economies of some massive countries are booming. Its change on a scale that the world’s never seen before and it could have a big effect on other countries‚ including Australia. 3. Many say
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Alex Bauer Informative Presentation Outline Topic: New York City General Speech Goal: To Inform Specific Speech Goal: I want my audience to recognize what makes New York City the city that never sleeps. Introduction I. Attention Getter: I want all of you today to imagine yourselves walking down a street‚ but this is no ordinary street. You feel like you’re a mouse in a maze‚ the skyscrapers are keeping you trapped within the city‚ thousands of people walking in different directions‚
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In Chinatown‚ she is the widow of a murdered city official with a secret she is keeping from the rest of the word. In The Maltese Falcon‚ perhaps the most widely known detective film noir‚ she is the woman at the heart of a missing person’s case that keeps the
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also had to face a racist Canadian government‚ who "passed the Chinese Exclusion Act and shut down all ordinary bachelor-man traffic between Canada and China‚ shut off any women from arriving‚ and divided families." (pg 17). In those early years Chinatown was populated with males‚ this reflected the process of men was brought over for labourers and the women were left behind in China. Wong Suk was unhappy with the government’s treatment and he remarked‚ "One day they say Old Wong okay-okay. Next day
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New York Pity In the summer of 2014 three friends and I had decided that we were in much need of a vacation. After a brief discussion and decade we were finally able to make our decision. My friends Sasha‚ Matt‚ John and I were going to go to New York City for the Fourth of July. This would be my first time visiting New York City‚ and without a doubt my first time visiting a city of this magnitude. As I think about my first visit‚ I think of how it will most likely be my last visit. My New York
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