market share by better addressing shoppers’ and consumers’ evolving needs. Faced with budget constraints and higher food and fuel prices‚ many shoppers are trimming basket size to save money while making more frequent trips to nearby drug‚ dollar and grocery stores‚ according to new analysis from SymphonyIRI Group. In turn‚ drug and dollar retailers have boosted their food and beverage offerings‚ while many grocers are rounding out their personal care product lines. “This increased channel blurring is
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elderly‚ disabled or those who don’t drive to were they need to go. City life provides all the advantages of being only minutes away from the grocery store‚ banks‚ and gas stations. But the city life carries a heavy price. Housing and food are expensive when you live in a small town‚ the hometown grocery stores usually have prices higher than your regular grocery store such as HEB and Wal-mart. Services‚ such as transportation‚ are expensive. Worst of all‚ the most expensive component of life in the
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COMPANY NAME/WEBSITE/INDUSTRY Company: FreshDirect Website: http://www.freshdirect.com Industry: Online Grocery BACKGROUND/HISTORY FreshDirect was founded in 1999 but fully operational in 2001. The company is a New York based and in the online grocery business. All of their customers shop online for their groceries that are delivered to their homes or place of business the next day. FreshDirect offers fresh produce‚ meat and seafood‚ shelf stable items and even prepared meals (www.freshdirect
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hold. It differs from a supermarket such that supermarkets are large self-service grocery stores that offer customers a variety of foods
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Whole Foods is recognized as one of the nation’s healthiest retail grocery stores. Whole Foods is devoted to seeking out the finest natural and organic foods available‚ maintaining strict quality standards‚ eating healthy‚ and being committed to the sustainability of the entire ecosystem (Whole Foods). The company was founded in Austin‚ Texas in September 1980 when Safer Way Natural Foods merged with Clarksville Natural Grocery (Whole Foods). Starting in 1984 Whole Foods began its process of expanding
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sales of packaged groceries. by Graeme Samuel and Stephen King Is the Australian retail grocery sector concentrated? Yes! Coles and Woolworths‚ account for around 75 per cent of Australia’s sales of packaged groceries with Metcash-supplied stores accounting for another 20 per cent. These market shares fall if we include fresh grocery items‚ such as meat‚ fruit and bread. However‚ they are still high by world standards. Australia’s ‘big three’ account for 95 per cent of grocery sales. Equivalent
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of the retailers’ marketing decisions are customer-centric and these influence retail patronage. Such focus on supermarkets is understandable because Filipinos still shop in-store for most of their groceries (AC Nielsen‚ 2005). Most urban Filipino households shop for groceries on a regular basis to replenish food‚ health and beauty products‚ household maintenance and supply‚ and so forth (AC Nielsen‚ 2005). While Filipinos still purchase most food in traditional outlets such
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main business objective for this project is to open up an Online Service Website. A website that allows people to order groceries online and have them delivered to their homes. Target customers would include housewifes‚ pregnant mothers‚ gamers‚ and generally people who stay home a lot or too busy to go out to do grocery shopping. My two main competitors would be Safeway Online Grocery and InstaCart. They are both very well-known and are used by many customers‚ however there has been complaints about
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• Threat of new entry in industry‚ company thinks they may need to take some action to either prevent this or stay competitive 2. What environmental components are relevant for Loblaw’s external analysis? Why? • Industry: Grocery Retail • Technological- new technologies (RFID‚ ECCNet) o Process management‚ integration of store management • Demographic – population size isn’t great‚ population distribution‚ urban area vs rural‚ low income
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Chapter 1 Information Technology helps LCBO Transform itself Information technology and systems have become an integral part of the business with such things as LCBO.com and Vintages.com‚ a warehouse system‚ forecast and replenishment systems‚ and an intranet. Vintages Is a premium wine and spirits bilingual retailer that has introduced 5‚000 new and unique products to the buying public in Ontario. Using the 600-plus LCBO store network and its Web site‚ Vintages introduced 125 new products on a bi-weekly
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