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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Strategy and Operations: FreshDirect * Visit freshdirect.com and type 10012 for zip-code. * What is FreshDirect’s business concept/strategy? Value proposition to customers? * How well have earlier online grocery stores performed? * Is FreshDirect successful? * If so‚ what are the reasons for its success? * “…Webvan’s founders erroneously thought… a competitive advantage simply by being Internet based. * From experience‚ Mr. Ackerman can say the Web itself confers no
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Case Summary FreshDirect is the largest online grocery firm in the New York market‚ and one of the largest in the country. With more than 250‚000 customers ordering over 8‚500 products every day‚ the company faced severe logistics and management decision making issues. To solve these issues‚ FreshDirect adopted a comprehensive enterprise data base system from SAP which utilized a number of business intelligence applications to track orders and customers. SAP AG is a German multinational software corporation
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People may wonder how effective characterization is so important in a novel. Characterization is highly vital in a novel because it’s what builds up the characters in the story. Without effective characterization‚ readers aren’t able to receive a vivid image of the characters in the novel. Characterization also helps people get engaged with the novel. Three polarizing characters like Vera Claythorne‚ Philip Lombard‚ and General Macarthur from Agatha Christie’s novel‚ And Then There Were None exemplify
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In MacBeth‚ Shakespeare uses characterization to stress that like MacDuff‚ a good leader puts their citizens first. Even though at the beginning of the play MacBeth was considered honorable and brave in the war‚ throughout the story his actions immersed him in unbearable guilt and caused him to be self-absorbed in power. MacBeth said himself that “Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill” (Shakespeare III.ii 55). MacBeth knows murdering his way to status was morally wrong‚ but he cannot stop
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_____________________________________________________________________________________ | The control unit of computer A. | Performs ALU operations on the data | B. | Controls the operation of the output devices | C. | Is a device for manually operating the computer | D. | Direct the other unit of computers | Answer D _____________________________________________________________________________________ | Which of the following is a set of general purpose internal registers? A. | Stack | B. | Scratch pad | C
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When I first looked at the title of the book the curious incident of the dog in the night-time‚ I immediately judged the book for its cover. I thought to myself “what kind of book would have a title like this.” The title seemed long and childish. I did not realize that there was a story behind the title until I started reading. Now that I am eighty pages into the book‚ I am highly intrigued. The most interesting aspects of the novel is the main character‚ Christopher Boone‚ the title‚ and the pictures
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3‚ JUNE 2007 265 Design and Development of a Medical Parallel Robot for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Yangmin Li‚ Senior Member‚ IEEE‚ and Qingsong Xu Abstract—The concept of a medical parallel robot applicable to chest compression in the process of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is proposed in this paper. According to the requirement of CPR action‚ a three-prismatic-universal-universal (3-PUU) translational parallel manipulator (TPM) is designed and developed for such applications
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Author: Sally Harridge-March Title: Direct marketing and relationships; An opinion piece Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing 2008. Vol. 2‚ Iss. 4‚ Page 192 Summary This article describes the basic concepts of direct marketing and relationship marketing‚ and then analyzes how the two can be used simultaneously for maximum effect. Direct marketing has a long history‚ traceable to organizations selling their products via catalogs and mail order. Relationship marketing was first
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accounts of witchcraft occurrences. In most cases the strange parallels cannot be explained and one is only left to assume that the tales hold some truth. Anthropologists say that many common elements about witchcraft are shared by different cultures in the world. Among these common elements are the physical characteristics and the activities of supposed witches. I will go on to highlight some of the witch characteristic parallels found in printed accounts from different parts of the world and
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