Grocery Research Papers Samples For Students

Abstract

Shopping is one of the most important parts in our daily life. We, as consumers, shop almost every day, whether it is a quick stop to the seven-eleven down the corner, or a family shopping in a large store like Wal-Mart at the weekend. From our perspective, when we plan to shop, all we want to consider is what we are getting and how much those items cost. On the other hand, as the suppliers in the shopping chain, the owners or investors of the stores have much more to consider when, where or even which kind of store ...

Impact of Contraband, Bootlegging and Peddling on Inner City Small Business Success: A Millennial’s Perspective

Abstract
Inner cities were the business hub for a long period of time. However, in the last 30 years, many large and small businesses have closed down their shops and moved out of inner cities to more affluent city suburbs. Especially noteworthy is the fact that small essential businesses such as grocery stores and drugstores are closing down their stores in inner cities despite a huge demand prevailing there. There are many reasons attributing to the problem. Contraband, bootlegging and peddling definitely have forced some of the small business owners to shut down their business. They are unable to ...

Introduction

Wal-Mart is the world’s largest retailer with more than 4,300 stores in the United States and over 8,000 worldwide, with global sales topping $400 billion in 2009. It is the largest retailer in the U.S., where more than half its revenue comes from grocery sales. This paper considers some of the retail giant’s negative impacts.
Since opening its first store in Bentonville, Arkansas in 1962, Wal-Mart has steadily spread from its base in the South and Midwest to dominate the suburban and rural retail market across the U.S. Wal-Mart is addressing the first obstacle – store ...

Introduction

Global business introduces a complex ethical dilemma as investors face difficulties assessing the business environment and making informed decisions (Kline, 2005). Many entrepreneurs focus more on making profits without caring about ethical issues associated with the type of business they perform. Unethical behaviors damage the reputation of the organization both locally and internationally calling for Kroger Grocery Store to be more careful when doing business in an international arena. Recycling of used vehicle and industrial batteries is a booming business in Mexico, but suffers many environmental effects. Lead forms one of the highest toxic metal and high elevated le levels of ...

The main objective behind starting any businesses to many people is the profit motive to many people. Therefore, it is necessary for businesses to be strategically position to hedge against any competition from the business rivals and to make the maximum from the least inputs. In relation to Kroger Grocery Store, to accomplish local responsiveness using the global standardization strategy, the prices for the products should be flexible in a way that they would prove to the people that the international market trends influence the pricing of the groceries. The pricing of the products can never be fixed due to ...

Abstract

Wal-Mart was founded in 1962 by Sam Walton and since then the company has extended its outstanding retail services to 11545 stores in approximately 28 countries. The company has emphasized on proper management of operations in its stores for a long while to influence its market share. The retail strategy of the company has helped the company to ensure exclusive performance in the industry. It has sustained unique business through respect for promotion, price, place and products. The company has to keep up with the completion from Costco Incorporation, Target Incorporation, Dollar Tree and Dollar General Incorporation.
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Introduction

Firms in different industries across Australia operate in varying market structures including oligopoly, monopoly, and monopolistic markets. Monopoly firms include Telstra, a telecommunications company that has over the years proved to be the dominant supplier of the internet and mobile services. Grocery supermarkets including Aldi, Woolworths, and Coles operate in oligopoly structures where they have dominance over smaller grocery retailers. Firms operating in the monopolistic structure include restaurants and hairdressing shops where firms aim at expanding their market share through product differentiation. The paper, therefore, uses examples drawn from Australian markets to discuss various market structures.

Oligopoly market structure in Australia

The grocery retail ...

International Business

Introduction
Globalization has led to major changes in the ways businesses reach out to their customers. With increased competition, firms have to be innovative and continue meeting consumer needs and expectations in a timely manner. Global firms have no choice but to work towards creating a brand that is able to attract more customers and retain the already acquired ones in the global markets. The grocery retail industry is growing as firms strive to reach out to untapped markets to be able to expand their scope and shift away from saturated markets. This implies investing financial resources in advertisements ...

Data-driven marketing strategies have overtaken the traditional mass marketing strategies. Business entities are increasingly using data not only in market segmentation but also in the determination of what products to produce, how to market the products, and how to price them. As a consequence, the currently applicable marketing strategies are considered to be more fluid, and there is the need for marketers and business professionals to increasingly consider value creation in marketing strategies that they employ (The Nielsen Company, 2015). In light of this understanding, this paper presents marketing segmentation, and value proposition for a recommended retail shopping bag ...

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Plastic is any material that is rigid or slightly elastic and can be transformed into different shapes without changing the components of the original substance. The use of plastic can be traced back to the 18th century where the first plastic like materials was manufactured.
Over the years, there has been an enhancement in the development of the plastic industry. Though in the beginning, plastic were declared as a good development for the human population where they had a lot of uses for it, in the current years plastic has become a menace and a threat to ...

English

Introduction
The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and yet children are still going to bed hungry. Many people are unaware of the growing problem of poverty and childhood hunger in their own country. Food insecurity has become growing problem in the United States. Food insecurity is defined as “the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, or limited, or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable ways, while hunger is more narrowly used to mean the uneasy or painful sensation caused by lack of food or the recurrent and involuntary lack ...

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Social Media and Different Platforms
The trend of social media and interaction via this medium has increased. Social media is used by companies now to interact, share, and create information and knowledge regarding their products and services via smart use of technological advancements. (Toni, p.13) Social media is supportive in making of virtual networks and communities where people can be discuss their experiences, give suggestions for improvement of product and services of an organization. According to Kaplan, (p.61) social media are community-based internet and smart phone applications where ...

Abstract

This is a research paper that aims at performing economic analysis of the Walmart Incorporation. There is exclusive consideration of various conditions that make the company the best retailer around the world. Walmart is a company with exclusively strategic abilities to fetch massive benefits. The company executes retail services in different parts of the world. There is extensive evaluation on the strategies that the company uses to ensure it remains significant in the industry. The forces in the industry are very useful in defining the ability of the company to withstand pressure and act accordingly. The economic forces of demand and ...

Introduction

Many people have started comparing popular fast food companies directly with the cigarette industry these days. One thing which cannot be denied is both these Industries sell products which endanger health of consumer. Eating 3 Big Macs each day and smoking single cigarette pack yields same degree of heath issues. This paper will discuss the blame game where many people have started blaming the fast food companies which sell their high-calorie and non-nutritious products to customers, who are unwilling to understand their own mistakes in gaining poor heath and increasing waistlines. Many people tend to bloat as they fail ...

It is difficult to overestimate the effect that increased globalization has had on the manufacturing and food marketplaces, particularly since the end of World War II. Up until the start of the recession in 2008, economic globalization was growing at a remarkable rate, as reported by the KOF Swiss Economic Institute, an organization that measures and tracks globalization (Dreher, 2013). However, as can be seen by the flat economic globalization rate since 2008, there are limits to the growth of globalization. A number of economic commentators have put forth the possibility of deglobalization (Samuelson, 2012). Some have stated that deglobalization ...

Application of Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints to Identify and Overcome Process Bottlenecks

Application of Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints
Queuing at the grocery is a mainstay concern to shoppers and often problematic to store management. The time taken to pay for items at a grocery constrains the efficiency of a store. This paper uses the theory of constraints to identify and overcome the main bottleneck in the process of shopping at a grocery store (Leseure, 2010, p. 270). For the one-week data collected, it was identified that the main bottleneck in the process was the time spent in queues while attempting to pay for goods. Reasonable time is spent in locating items thanks to a ...

In recent years, policy makers of organizations are using different growth strategies to perform well in market. This research study intends to explore growth strategies of Tata Motors and Jaguar and Land Rover. The second part of research study explores the growth strategies of Wal-Mart, one of the biggest retail grocery stores of the world. We examined the acquisition of pink n pay and we critically analyzed these growth strategies in this research study. For this purpose we collected data from Tata Motors and Jaguar Land Rover. Data was collected from scholarly research papers, companies’ annual reports and official ...

Food deserts are those areas within cities where the local population has no or little access to fresh fruits and healthy vegetables. There is evidence that the food desert areas are more prevalent in the lower income neighborhoods. Lack of healthy foods leads to obesity and health ailments such as heart disease and diabetes. It is also seen that the neighborhoods with low-income are mostly African American. The essay discusses the Food deserts, what they mean and who is affected and how. Research works on food deserts in Baltimore city are looked into and how a lack of nutritious ...

Introduction

Short history of the retail industry and its growth
Since the year of 2005, the retail sector of Canada is constantly playing an important role in the marketplace of Canada. The sector has a considerable impact on customers, the Canadian economy, and consumers’ activities. The sales of the foods in Canada, from 2006 to 2011 jumped up to 17 percent (Lau, 2014). The sector accounted for sales of $457.4 billion in 2011 with the representation of 12 percent of the workforce of Canada. The food and beverages stores in 2011 were representing the $104.1 billion of the market share ( ...

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The problem on obesity has big a growing issue for many people worldwide. In lieu with the predicament and the accompanying illness that comes with obesity, the different government worldwide as well as the different health institutions are finding ways to combat the problem. One of the ways of addressing the issue was standardizing food label to consist of information that would inform people of the contents of the food they eat. However, this solution is not widely accepted. Critics believe that knowledge on how to read and understand food label cannot do anything to solve obesity. In a ...

Lynching is a massacre that took place in the United States without trial against black people. Lynching was usually accompanied by torture, abuse and mockery of the victim, that in most cases resulted in death. According to the most common version, the term "Lynching”, which entered into the use in the 18th century, associated with the name of the American racist Colonel Lynch. During American War of Independence Lynch commanded a battalion of riflemen in Virginia, where the law courts most like didn’t work. Lynch himself created a court, that was dealing mostly with criminals and political opponents using very brutal ...

Dunnes Stores is Irish retail stores that hold the second place among the five leading stores in Ireland. These competitor stores are Tesco, Superquinn, Supervalu, Lidl and Aldi. The store performance in the stock mark is also the second best among the competing stores. At the beginning of 2012, the market share of Dunnes store was 23.3 per cent (Reilly, 2012). The market share of the store by the end of 2013 had increased to 24.3 per cent, (Reilly, 2013).
As a promotion strategy, the store offers its customers 3 euro voucher and an additional 50 euro for shipping ...

Introduction

Marketing is referred to as managing the profitable customer’s relationships by either attracting more customers or retaining and growing the already present customers in a business. A marketing concept is defined as the ability to understand and meet the needs of the customers. A retailer works towards satisfying the customer’s needs and wants so that he can meet his objectives and goals. The aim of marketing concepts is to understand a customer before you design or produce products for them. When a retailer satisfies the needs of a customer, there are high chances that the sales and profits will increase.
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Walmart was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, in Arkansas, U.S. The company was incorporated as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in 1969 and has become more commonly known as – Walmart. It was founded on the premise of providing products to the consumers at a discounted price. Serving the discount retail industry, Walmart thrived during the recent recession and emerged as the largest retail company during 2008-2009. Today Walmart operates in 15 different countries under 60 different brands with more than 9029 retail stores. It recorded sales worth $405 billion by the end of fiscal year 2010 (Walmartstores.com, 2010.).

Walmart’s primary ...

Charlotte Supplements is a small-scale organization operating in Charlotte North Carolina (NC) selling over 6,000 products. The portfolio of the company includes supplements for vitamins, minerals, herbs, and sports edibles. Due to its scale, the company does not interact with the audience digitally regarding product information such as prices. Moreover, the company operates for a limited span each week (CS, 2017). The purpose of this paper is to propose a business model and a competitive strategy for overcoming this small-scale but a potential competition. The paper will explain the core concept of strategy briefly prior to the proposition. ...

We see these days restaurants like Chipotle and grocery stores claiming to serve non-genetically modified foods. Are we eating artificial food? Is that good for our bodies? Is that good for the food that is being modified? These questions raise awareness for people who are oblivious of what GMOs are and how they are affecting our daily lives. GMOs may be more common in our diets than we know. GMO stands for Genetically modified organism and is a term that stems from biotechnology. It is the alteration of the genetic code of an organism to either enhance its properties, ...

KFC is an American chain of fast food restaurants. This chain of fast food specializes in chicken meat, as it can be obvious by the name of the company that is Kentucky Fried Chicken what actually means: fried chicken from Kentucky. From the name, you can immediately understand where the brand was born. The company's headquarters is located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America.
Talking about the history of the brand KFC, it is important to talk about biography of its founder, who was Colonel Sanders. David Sanders was born September 9, 1890. His childhood was difficult, and ...

Management Lessons from Whole Foods

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Whole Foods Market, Inc. is the number retailer of natural foods and vitamins. Their success was no accident. Looking at the background of this company will help uncover the key to their success. Additionally, looking at the leadership and management style of their CEO, John Mackey, will shed light on why the company is so successful. This leadership and management style is the building blocks of the company. Many factors such as the company’s culture is a direct derivative of the leadership and management style, which is why this paper will explore it in depth. This paper ...

Have you ever faced a situation where you have to choose between preparing a healthy meal and going to a fast food restaurant? Millions of Americans face this decision on a daily basis and the impact of their choices has become apparent over the last three decades. In the 1970s, the number of fast food restaurants doubled according to the Census of Retail Trade (Chou, Grossman, and Saffer). Since the same period, obesity and obesity related diseases increased rapidly in the U.S. Today, junk food is prevalent in our culture and is commonly found in fast food restaurants like McDonald’s and Jack ...

Since time immemorial, Kroger has not taken a step ahead to expand its activities across the globe; its stores are situated only in the United States. Kroger has always paid attention to delivering its services to the local community. Therefore, its activities present cultural communication barriers, if expounding internationally. Most importantly, the activities of the company are affected ethically by misleading companies like Apple and Foxconn. In the United States, Kroger controls more than 2480 supermarkets and 770 convenience markets in more around 30 states. The main challenge that will affect its activities in the international market is its lack ...

The talk in towns, homes, hospitals and even social media is how to live healthy and keep fit. This trend has led to people concentrating on what they eat. Many theories and myths have developed on what kind of food one should take. Superfood? This is one of the foods that people talk about, but do they really know what it is? Superfoods are a type of foods that are found naturally. These foods are very good sources of antioxidants; essential nutrients that our bodies require.A survey by whole Foods market LP (3) clearly points out the statistics of people ...

Introduction

Consumer behavior is the study of an individual, organization or group that is used to select products, services or ideas to satisfy needs. It also studies the impact of the process of buying over consumers and society. (Kuester, 2012) Consumer shopping behavior is a very complex process for studying. This process varies for every individual depending on their personal choices which is influenced by their social and psychological background. There may be hundreds of active and passive factors which directly or indirectly influence a consumer in buying something.
After the evolution of internet in recent years the modes of shopping ...

Part 1

Real GDP refers to economic measurement output of a country subtract inflation effect. GDP allows economic experts to make economic production comparison for each quarter in an accurate way (Cebula, and Edgar 270). Economists divide nominal GDP by the deflator, which is an inflation measurement ever since the base year. For example, when prices go up by 2.5% from the base year, we will have 1.025 as the deflator. The formula for calculating real GDP is R= N/D, where R stands for real GDP, N is nominal GDP and D is the deflator.

Nominal GDP

Nominal gross domestic product refers to the ...

DNA Analysis

Forensic science (also known as forensics) can be defined as the use of scientific methods to respond to questions relating to a legal system. The questions could be related to civil action or solving a crime. The term forensics is derived from the Latin word forensic, which means “before the forum”. This word was conjured during Roman times when criminal charges were brought before a group of people in a public forum (Inman & Rudin, 2000). The accused and his accuser would present their speeches and give accounts of their versions of the story. The person who argued his case better than the ...

Application of Operations Management Principles

Operations management offers a number of measures that could significantly contribute into the development of any business by using available resources and allocating them effectively. The main goal of operations management is to satisfy customer demand. Operations management can provide several advantages to any business, for example, reduction of production costs, improvement of costs efficiency, increase of revenues, increase of customer satisfaction, reduction of investment required, and providing a basement for future innovation (Stevenson, 2008).

The objective of this paper is to analyze the opportunities of operations management using an example of one of the medium-sized US supermarkets. The situation that ...

Wal-Mart’s Design of Goods and Services

Introduction
The biggest global chains of supply globally belong to Wal-Mart organization. It is a supplying outlet for many products including SLP1, FMCGs, appliances and garments with multiple channels of distribution and suppliers hence a vast and complex supply chain. It has a philosophy to stay at the cutting edge in regards to the portion of supply chain.
Wal-Mart is a global organization in a highly competitive market, it has a strong chain of supply, and its structure of logistics is tight. It is a large chain of supermarkets where it is operational in all countries of the world and primarily in the United States ...

Walmart is a global organization in a highly competitive market, it has a strong chain of supply, and its structure of logistics is tight. It is a large chain of supermarkets where it is operational in all countries of the world and primarily in the United States of America. Started with the aim of making profits, Walmart is a non-governmental profit making organization. It has a wide recognition for running its discount department stores. (Galloway, 2009)
The biggest global chains of supply globally belong to Walmart organization. It is a supplying outlet for many products including SLP1, FMCGs, appliances and garments with multiple channels of distribution ...

Introduction

Egypt is a country in the northern part of Africa continent. This country is involved in various social and monetary activities. Egypt has gone through great community and economic developments in the past years. Some of the economic activities practiced in Egypt are agricultural production, food processing, manufacturing, tourism, trade and mining of natural resources. On the other hand, social activities in Egypt include communication, education and provision of health facilities and clean water for human consumption. Some of the socio-monetary activities are controlled by the government while others like agriculture are mainly in the hands of private owners (International ...

'A & P' is a story about a checkout boy whose name is Sammy. The boy gives up his job following his boss’ unsympathetic speech to some three teenage girls. A keen analysis of the story reveals that in this work, John Updike, the author, portrays a contrast of two worldviews – the individualistic, non-conformist, and free-spirited views of the three teenage girls against the conventional, stoic, and conservative views of Mr. Lengel, Sammy’s manager. In this work, I have keenly analyzed the interpretations of two critics, Toni Saldivar and Walter Wells. To start with, I have given my own analysis and the ...

I. Current Economic Picture

In 2008 and early 2009, the U.S economy fell into a huge recession that was merged with an acute financial crisis. The Consequence was a decline in employment in the period, and a rapid increase in jobless rates. The recession ended in June 2009 and from then on there was an economic growth through 2010—six quarters. During the fourth quarter of 2010, the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) had redeemed the economic advancement lost during the recession.

However, the recovery has not been uniform. In compairong the fourth quarter 2010 GDP with that of 2007 fourth quarter GDP, the recovery appears to ...