2014190046 – DaYe Shin Professor Colin Caret World Philosophy (UIC1901-03) October 31th 2014 Vagueness: The Sorites Paradox and Supervaluationism Vagueness is common and pervasive in our everyday use of language. Being bald‚ tall or red are all vague concepts which are used without being detected as such. Vagueness is caused by “borderline cases”‚ cases in which “we do not know what to say‚ despite having all the information that would normally fix the correct verdict” (Paradoxes‚ p.41). To illustrate
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TESCO The actual and potential impact of information on the strategic direction of the organisation. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report discusses the actual and potential impact of information on the strategic direction of Tesco‚ a food and grocery retailer. This report also analyse the important of customer in Tesco and how they use Clubcard to earn customer loyalty. Tesco is the UK ’s largest grocer and they not only offer fresh food and chilled meals but also increased sales in the non-food sector
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Tesco is now a very successful retailer in the UK. Also‚ it is the second-largest retailer in the world measured by profits and third-largest retailers in the world measured by revenues. Which it is the business that I have selected to carry out my investigations. Tesco According to the “Business Case Studies”‚ it has been mentioned that one of Tesco’s aim and objectives are to maximise sales. In order to do this‚ they will need to maintain their advertising and promotions to the public. For example
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After the chocolate is produced and has undergone all the quality checks it is transported to the stockrooms. After this Cadbury sells it products to shops that deal with beverages and confectionery e.g. corner shops‚ super stores such as Iceland‚ Sainsbury‚ Kwik save‚ Tesco‚ Asda‚ Safeway and petrol station. These businesses are usually visited by customers on a daily basis. They then sell it to the general public. Cadbury produces chocolate for more than 200 countries so that they have a chance
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Sainsbury’s (also known J Sainsbury PLC as its parent company) is a chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. The group also has interests in property and banking. The group has an estate worth about £8.6 billion (March 2007). Till 1995‚ it was UK’s largest grocer (losing to Tesco at the year and was then pushed into third by ASDA in 2003). However‚ the company’s fortunes have improved since the launch of a recovery programme by Justin King (the company’s Chief executive officer) in 2004. They
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competitors - Tesco is the most dominant competitor and is reaching/targeting a monopoly status with a market share of 31 %. By comparing both figures‚ we realized that Tesco has a 10x higher market share than Waitrose Ltd. Other competitors such as Sainsbury (17 %) and ASDA (16 %) are still ahead of Waitrose ’ market share. It might be concluded that Waitrose carries out differentiated marketing which means that a certain group of people is targeted which is the upper class of income who are more likely
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first part of this assignment will look at the characteristics of a consumer society‚ the choices available and identify the divisions created from unequal choices. The second part will consider the role of the Big four supermarkets (TESCO‚ Asda‚ Sainsbury and Morrison’s) in providing choice to people. The term consumer society goes beyond the mere act of shopping and the functional use of goods with contemporary society viewing consumerism more as a leisure activity. Warren Susman claims that the
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organizational structures (dealerships with many associates‚ joint ventures and agency relationships) Lack of direct connection with ultimate consumers due to dependence on retailers and wholesalers(in Western countries retail giants such as Tesco‚ Asda and Sainsbury are very strong and have the ability to dictate big multinational companies). Inefficient management of brands (being unable differentiate between
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pricing and supplier details. On the other had one disadvantage of this source is that the entrepreneur doesn’t have a fresh perceptive to the industry. An example of this style of start up is Ben Davies he used to be a Quiche and Pasty buyer for Sainsbury. He spotted a gap in the market for an upmarket brand of these types of products and established the brand ‘Crumbs’ Another way ideas come to entrepreneurs is from their regular life encounters‚ hobbies or interest. Sometimes frustration
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SOME TOOLS AND POLICIES USED TO MEASURE CURRENT AND FUTURE PERFORMANCE At Tesco Plc‚ SWOT analysis is used in collaboration with other tools to measure future performance. Performance measurement tools such as balance scorecard; 360 degree feedback; Management by Objectives (MBO) and customer management techniques are used to assess the current performance and strategise the future performance of the staff of Tesco Plc. A record of the current key performance indicators (KPI) are kept for future
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