Grocery Store College Essays Samples For Students

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Factory workers are the backbone of the economy. They blend machine and manpower to provide steady industrial growth, economic prosperity and revenue inflow. In the United States of America, factory workers have represented and reinforced the concept of hard-working, middle-class Americans since the early 20th Century. The ideals of “Living the American Dream” has largely been inspired by the factory workers; a philosophy that epicenters hard-work, sacrifice and making an honest living. However, with the turn of the century, the conditions of factory workers have changed drastically and as we head towards ...

Introduction

The story discusses three girls who visit A & P grocery store wearing bathing suits, Queenie and her two friends. The narrator is Sammy, a young man working as a clerk at the checkout of the grocery store. The theme relating to the power of desire is prominent throughout the plot, character, and setting of the narrative.

Plot

The theme of desire is apparent from the introductory of the plot. It begins with Sammy providing a description of three girls that have just walked into the grocery store. He describes the outfits and the physical features of each of the three girls. Sammy does ...

Under most circumstances the grocery store would not be liable if someone is a victim of a crime near the story but not actually on the store’s property or premises. The reason for this outcome is twofold. Unless the harm is the result of a grocery store employee, for example, if an employee was told by a manager to “mug” the customer when they left, then the harm cannot be considered an intentional tort related to the store. An intentional tort is one in which the defendant (the grocery store) commits an act whose results it intends accomplish. ...

Overview

A weekend drive to a grocery store makes an ideal activity for families to spend time sharing their product choices and insights about wise shopping. However, not all families and individuals alike share the same thought. There are some that doesn't have the time to spare for a quick trip to the grocery store because of the hectic schedule and busy lifestyle. The lack of time for grocery shopping is causing their household stock piles run out and food and basic household necessities to run dry. People flock to supermarkets to buy everything from fresh food, to toiletries, to canned goods ...

Product/Products sold: Groceries.

Components of a Good Customer Service Environment
Customer Service Expectations of Sales Associates
Explicit expectations from the sales associates in the grocery store is to help customers with purchases by assisting them to identify groceries, inform them about the location of groceries, and provide customers with an incentive to purchase greater volume. Implicit expectations from the sales associates at the grocery store are informing customers about fresh stock, offering discounts to loyal customers and maintaining relationship with customers. Situational expectations of sales associates at the grocery store would include pre-purchase needs of customers and post-purchase satisfaction. Sales associates would ...

Kroger Grocery Store operates in oligopoly market structure where there are a few large companies. The companies operating are such a market offer very close products or goods. It is worth to note that the level of competition in the market is very high. This is because each company is ever committed to responding to the action taken by the other company operating in the same market. For instance, if one company in the market designs a new product with unique futures the other companies respond to that act very fast so as to enhance competitiveness in the market.
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The family is a perennial topic in disaster films, where individuals struggle over moral and ethical decisions that continuously bother their conscience throughout the narrative. In the conventional collapse of modern society in disaster films, the family is oftentimes the only institution left that can withstand the chaos that ensues as a result of government failure. Where there is no community or social structure whatsoever to turn to, the main characters within the disaster narrative resort to forging their own relationships with the people they come into contact with, whether it is based on blood relations, an identical purpose, or a similar ...

One of the elements of globalization has been the disappearance of borders in terms of goods and services. This is most easily observed in with food. This paper will explore some of the benefits and disadvantages of our increasingly borderless society by analyzing its impacts on one meal The meal that will form the basis of analysis consisted of pork ribs, lotus root, broccoli, rice, and “Tieguanyin” tea. The lotus root, rice, pork ribs and tea were purchased at a local grocery store. The other items, namely, the broccoli and green beans were purchased at a local farmer’s ...

Part 1

Information systems are channels through which individuals and institutions collect, process, and distribute data. An information system aims to support a firm’s operations, and aids the management in decision-making. The lifecycle of an information system involves five distinct phases: analysis, design, implementation, testing, and evaluation (O'Brien & Marakas, 2006). Implementing a computerized time entry system at the photography-printing store will involve the five steps. All the work performed at each stage will be documented for proper evaluation.

The analysis stage entails a study of the intended system and its integration with the firm’s objectives (O'Brien & Marakas, 2006). ...

At 4:00am, my alarm clock begins to go off. Still exhausted from the night before, I begin to rise out of bed. In the middle of winter, it’s dark outside. The house is freezing. I take a deep breath and get out of bed to begin my day. As a single mother raising three children, I work two jobs just to make ends meet. I am due to report to my first job, at the local hotel, at 6:00am sharp. It’s minimum wage and physically grueling work, but it’s a job that puts food on the ...

Management

We have been assigned the task to critique a retail plan for a store on several dimensions of strategic decision. The retail store chosen for this purpose is named as Corner Market. It is a grocery chain located in Mississippi precisely, Hattiesburg, MA. The retail store is more like a specialty store which offers quality items and saves trips to Walmart and other big stores. Although the products available at Corner Market are a bit towards the expensive scale but it is still worth the repeated visits. A critique of the retail plan of Corner Market is discussed based ...

It is wrong to steal, and children learn this from an early age. But what if a parent was unable to find work and as a result did not have any money to buy groceries for their children? Would it be okay in this situation to steal food from a grocery store even though it is wrong to steal. This question is an ethical question. I believe, as I will develop in this essay, that it is okay to steal from a grocery store. This question, in some senses, is a silly question; very few people would agree that a parent should let their children ...

Identify the store and the day and time you made your observation.

For it to be possible for me to observe the behaviours of the consumers, I visited my local grocery store known as Ides. Ides is a renowned chain grocery store in my native village and where I carry out my grocery shopping. The two aisles I landed on were the: Cereal Wembley and smoky Aisle in order to determine and see how consumer behaviour changes for different products. Besides , discovering that consumers may conduct themselves differently depending on time of the day it is, I went to the local store twice, once in Wednesday (around 2pm when there are not ...

Sammy is the nineteen year old narrator of John Updike’s short story “A&P,” who works at a local A & P grocery store as a cashier. The focus of this short story is Sammy’s particular experience when three young girls enter the grocery store one summer afternoon dressed in nothing but two piece bathing suits. Most of this short story revolves around how Sammy views these three girls and what he thinks about them. A lot is revealed about Sammy’s personal character from way he analyzes and observes the girls and even his other patrons. Sammy does not waste ...

Business Marketing Plan

Section I: Marketing Plan and Sales Strategy

The target consumer is someone who is both below and above 18 years old, belongs to the low income range, either male and female, with no occupation requirement, either single and married (regardless of the family size), belongs to the Black and White American ethnic groups, preferably college educated, and owns or rents a home.
The name of the company that will do the marketing is Sync Pure Drinks Co. Ltd. (SPDCL). The top two products that the company is currently planning to release to the marketplace, following a successful launch sometime ...

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Interpretive frame is when an individual or a particular party uses rhetorical responses to a particular situation in a given society. This text examines the hurricane Katrina and some of the things people speculated based on the people living in New Orleans based on their racial profile. One of the things that the text describes is how Hurricane Katrina exposed the racism embedded in the country. According to Harris and Carbado, there were two controversial photos of Katrina victims wading through the water carrying bags that flowed in the media. Most of the media captions stereotyped an African American who was pictured ...

1) Who is the best of the CNN Heroes? Please rank these seven entrepreneurs in terms of which person is doing the most significant work.

Personal Ranking of CNN Heroes:

1 – Kakenya Ntaiya
2 – Dr. Georges Bwelle
3 - Robin Emmons
4 – Chad Pregracke
5 – Dr. Laura Stachel
6 – Yash Gupta
7 – Dale Beatty
In my mind , Kakenya is doing the most significant work of them all, providing impoverished children in Kenya with the chance to learn and fulfill their dreams. This is a fantastic idea, as this allows these children to grow up and become successful, productive ...

The U.S. grocery chains Whole Foods Market’s and Trader Joe's have become household names nationwide. While they are located in various locations, each of its stores operates under a different approach. There is a distinct difference in the quality of their products. In comparison, Whole Foods is more expensive than Trader Joe's because it has more specialty products. Whole Foods also tend to carry more organic products than Trader Joe's. Personally, I think that the overall quality of Whole Foods groceries products is much better than Trader Joe's.
Whole Foods Market's aims to build a grocery store which supplies whole, ...

QUESTION ONE: Canadian business environment

Canada offers a competitive business environment suitable for investment. It is the best ninth country among sixty world largest economies. The environment is welcoming with a highly educated workforce and strong economic growth record (Wesson, 2007). For instance, the country recorded a 0.6 expansion in economic growth in the first quarter of 2016.It has a sound and stable banking system which is also conservative and one of the strongest in the world. The research and development technology is highly developed and competitive. The country is multicultural hence suitable for foreign investment. It offers quality universal health, education and overall ...

One concept that our political leaders like to kick around a lot is the notion of equality. It is one of the founding concepts in the American Constitution, and it was one of the three principles in the French Revolution (liberty, equality and brotherhood). It is one of those words that draws people along with it and resonates, because none of us wants to have less than those around us. In the area of energy, as Dr. Vandana Shiva points out, there are two competing modes of equality. One has all people elevating their standard of living, in terms ...

Starting college has been a new experience for me in terms of meeting my basic needs and surviving on my own. A major factor involved here is access to food and how this affects my diet and ultimately my overall health and well being. As a transfer student, I actually began my college career at a different university, where I lived in the dormitories for a limited number of months. It was during this onboarding process that the struggle to attain healthy foodstuffs on a campus environment first became clear to me, particularly as I felt my weight increase ...

Summary and Analysis

The short story entitled A & P by John Updike narrates the apparently unconventional event of three teen-aged girls in swimsuits running an errand to pick up a grocery item from a grocery store. The literary discourse was narrated from the point of view of Sammy, a 19-year old teen-ager, who vividly described the evolving details. As the teen-aged girls flamboyantly displayed their bodies with only their swimsuits as covers, their actions were intently observed by other spectators and only the manager, finally had the courage to speak up and condemn the untoward behavior. The main points asserted from the story included ...

Information Technology manager

Achievements
Technical Results – Introduced, maintained and trained VoiP technology in various organizations, bringing the communication into the 21st century virtual connectivity
Leadership – Coordinated, instructed and coached young professionals, inspiring career goals and instilling a learning by doing environment
Professional Experience
FICTIVIA ENTERTAINMENT 2010 – Present
IT System Administrator, Davenport – U.S.

Managed the IT System for the organization.

Introduced the VoiP Technology for facilitating the global extension
Coordinated IT Projects for the organization’s risk and safety protocols
Integrated cost efficiency programs, in a disciplined and organized environment
Hired, trained and evaluated IT staff
WHATEVEN CONSULTANCY 2008 – 2010
Technical Consultant, ...

It has been observed that teenagers take bad decisions especially when they are in bad company. Teenagers do not take bad decisions because they are vulnerable but they deliberately smoke, consume alcohol and have unprotected sex. This trend has been emerged as a major concern for parents and they are unable to understand how to solve it. This paper intends to discuss how teenagers take bad decisions and further discusses the major factors that are responsible for such bad decisions.
John Updike in the story, A&P portrays how a teenager’s bad decision can land him into weird situation. The ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with an experience which has contributed to my growing mature and realizing my aging. There are lots of events and incidents in life along with people who one meets that play a major role in one’s evolution of personality. The experience I have chosen to describe is my relationship with my first boss at my first job as a college student. It is an experience which opened up the path in front of me and made me realize that life ought to be taken seriously if one wishes to enjoy a good ...

The hurricane Katrina occurred on 29, August 2005 and affected the city of New Orleans and the small towns of Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. The government response was very poor. In twenty four hours soon after the Katrina occurred, the whole world had known that, majority of the affected were blacks. The media was filming and reporting without any rescues on site. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) claimed that they could not get through yet the media had gone through. Harry Connick, Jr, said that he was able to get to New Orleans without any difficult.
On 26, ...

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The Bintel Brief was a section in a Yiddish newspaper, Jewish Daily Forward in 1906 publishing letters of the Jewish population in America. The Editor writes a reply for every letter. The Bintel Brief talks about all the issues confronting the Jews who just migrated to America from several countries like Poland, Russia, Hungary, and Romania among others.
In one letter, a woman who signed as F.L. said her family just moved to the country from Europe. They have a son living with them, and their daughter lives in the next city. The letter writer said that ...

Introduction

People have different ways of attaining their basic need. On most occasions, they go to work in a bid to earn money that they exchange with the basic need like shelter, clothing and most importantly food (Nanda, & Richard 126). This paper gives a comprehensive discussion on how my family acquires food and the economic resources that enable my family to have access to the food and other family necessities. In addition, the assignment gives a detailed explanation on the different stakeholders including producers, distributors/wholesalers and retailers of the food products. It also includes their places of production and distribution. The end of ...

The properties of real numbers is a fundamental concept of basic algebra. Any given individual should be aware of these concepts as we may face them in our everyday lives without even noticing. When you actually are doing simple math operations while buying groceries or calculating your monthly expenses, you are dealing with real numbers, and, therefore, you should be aware of their properties in order not to make a mistake in your calculations. The distributive law, simplification procedures and operations with removing parentheses are important to know anytime you are facing a problem which involves calculations. The knowledge of these properties ...

Analysis of Personal and Organizational Ethics and Values between For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Organizations

Introduction
Unethical business behavior remains a major concern in the business world. The ethics problem is witnessed indiscriminately in both profit making and nonprofit making organizations. Ethics are as important as the objectives of the business and, therefore, corporations and other companies have a responsibility to adhere to the ideals of their organizations. This is if the ideals of such organizations have a standard moral and ethical stand that is universally acceptable. The persistence of this problem becomes a greater concern after considering the fact that organizations like those involved in charitable activities find themselves on the wrong side of morality.

This ...

PART A: SERVICE PRODUCT BUNDLE

HOSPITALS PRODUCT/SERVICE BUNDLE:
Hospitals provide a bundle of products and services to customers. Medical services are provided by the hospitals in the form of medical checkups of patients, operations, medical consultancy etc. Nowadays the trend has adapted some innovations in it and hospitals are offerings a bundle of services to its customers. For example, a bundle in which operation with 3 days room booking and four visits of patient after operation are included in a single package. All these services are provided through the doctors in the hospital so the main service provider is the doctor and service is medical consultancy (Schroeder, ...

The short story “A & P by John Updike took place in 1961 in a grocery store in New England. The location and situation in the story is very commonplace as it’s a simple grocery store, with a naïve grocery cashier called Sammy, who gets attracted towards beautiful girls who walk inside the store to buy something. Ironically, the romantic desire and sexual attraction of the protagonist in the story brings his downfall as he impulsively resigns from his job, but feels triumphant too at the same time for standing up in favor of the girls against the store manager.
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Strategies & Challenges

The Savola Group is a Saudi public listed company and is considered as among the largest diversified conglomerates in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asian (MENACA) region. It manages a varied portfolio of business. Savola Group’s inception can be traced back to 1979 when it started with an initial capital of SR40 million in the edible oil industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Currently, the Savola Group has 62% market share of Edible Oils market and 68% of the Sugar market in the Kingdom added to 113 Retail outlets in the form of supermarkets and hypermarkets. In ...

Sally and Mike Smith agreed to this interview. They came in to the office and sat on the couch together. It was noted that while in the waiting room, they were also seated together. The interviewees are a 28 year old married Caucasian couple. They dated for one year before getting married. Currently, do not have any children. The Counselor asked them on how they met and Mike responded to the question. Mike proceeded to describe that they had met at a picnic which was organized by a mutual friend. The counselor then asked both of them on what attracted them to ...

The story is about a young boy, Georgie Burgess who lives in the city of Tampa, the State of Florida with his alcoholic mother, and her ever-abusive boyfriend Steve (Hunt 1). The story has been set in Georgie’s neighborhood, a dilapidated and insecure part of the city. He everything, he does not know his father and never sure about himself. This is because she spends all her time drinking or passed out. Steve visits occasionally and when he does, he beats Georgie to unconsciousness. The mother depends on Steve’s money for bills and she cannot protect her child from ...