The success or failure of a business can often depend on its location.
The right Location will increase the chances of a business succeeding.
The wrong location will increase the chance of a business failing.
A good business can be in a very good location but something outside
the owner’s control can happen and affect the business. For example,
the closure of Wembley Stadium has seriously affected many businesses
in the area.
Sainsbury’s is located near Ealing Road, in Alperton. There are
advantages as well as disadvantages to Sainsbury’s Location. The
advantages are that Sainsbury’s is the only Major supermarket in the
area, there are good road links to get there, a lot of area for
parking, there is a bus stop near by, customers could trust
Sainsbury’s more than the local Newsagents and that it is visible.
All these factors help Sainsbury’s get more customers, because it is
the only Major supermarket in the area means that there is little if
not any competition in the area. There are good road links, which
means that it will be easy for people who come by car, there is also a
large area to park your car, if you use one. There is a bus stop near
by which means that people who use the bus could easily come and go
from Sainsbury’s easily. People are more likely to trust Sainsbury’s
more than the local Newsagents because it is better known. Sainsbury’s
is visible because it is located in an area where there are barely any
big buildings, so people know it is there.
The disadvantages are the fact that the local Newsagents might be
selling products like milk and bread cheaper then Sainsbury’s. This
could attract some of Sainsbury’s customers to the local Newsagents
Functional Areas of a Chosen Business The different functional areas within the business of Sainsbury’s are as follows: * Customer Service * Retail * Marketing * Trading * Finance * Human Resources * Administration * Payroll I shall not write about what each department actually does within Sainsbury’s: Customer Service This is basically the majority of Sainsbury’s workforce. This involves general duties to be carried out on the shop floor such as checkout assistants which are there for customers to pay for their goods, General Assistants are multi skilled between checkouts and stocking shelves for maximum availability of products for customers. Stock control is another type of customer service Sainsbury’s have.
close to the M25 and M3, so it has good access roads for people which
When arriving for the first time I missed the turn to go into the front parking lot. Instead, I had to drive down I-95, get off the next exit, turn around, and try not to miss it again. Once I got into the front parking lot I learned that consumers had to park in the back parking lots, which weren’t much more than grass with a fence covered with greenery separating the aisles. The first visit I made I was slightly worried my car would get stuck in the mud, but braved the possibility anyway.
Patients were given a distraction from any pain they experienced when they looked outside their window. All the greenery, flowers and trees surrounding the building gave a little life to what would otherwise be a boring brick building. I found no trouble with parking when I arrived that day. The parking structures were well organized and seemed to have adequate parking spaces. However, the roads leading up to the parking structures were a little confusing. There are too many signs pointing all over the place. This could make it very confusing for patients in a huge
It uses a luffing crane, so an overhead protected walkway made of wooden boards was installed on Avenue Road. The main features of this can be seen in figure 6, where we see boards were placed on sloped metal scaffolding supported by vertical metal scaffolding in Jersey barriers on Avenue road. This pedestrian walkway cut 1 lane of traffic on Avenue Road since the original sidewalk was used for materials’ storage. To provide adequate lighting under the overhead protection, light bulbs have been installed. Overall, as seen in figure 6, this pedestrian walkway appears sturdy due to the Jersey barriers on the left, well maintained scaffolding that was rust free, and also provides adequate lighting and protects pedestrians. The downside of this is that vehicle congestion increased since 1 lane was removed, which was especially visible as we visited around 3:30 PM, when the extra lane would have reduced congestion. On the site’s south side, where pedestrian traffic was not as much of an issue, the sidewalk was used for storage without overhead protection. Jersey barriers were again used, but here they prevented cars from driving into the site. This cut traffic on Cumberland Ave. from 2 to 1 lanes. Deliveries also come in this side, which temporarily stops traffic as observed. When we were there, a delivery took several minutes and stopped cars, annoying drivers. Overall, Cumberland Avenue was
Sheridan College rests at the bottom of the beautiful Big Horn Mountains, in a small, friendly Western town where everyone believes that everyone else is their neighbor and treats them as such. After a week at Sheridan College, I guarantee that any visitor would mistake it for Heaven; that is, except for one issue: the lack of parking on campus. Nearly every time in the past that I have attempted to locate a desirable parking spot, I have failed and have had to settle for a spot at least five minutes away from my intended location. After three semesters of frustration, I gained the necessary permission to research this predicament and present my findings in this report.
residents travelling to and from the train station. This creates a comparative advantage as Uber
Firms Faced with Rivals and Advantage of Location The location of firms depends on factors such as cost, quality of inputs and even their availability. These factors can vary from place to place so this gives firms an incentive to locate in the lowest cost locations with other things being equal. The location for most firms is highly dependent on labour costs and raw material costs as these are naturally less mobile place to place and almost completely immobile country to country, capital does not have as much effect on the location of a firm. Differences in labour costs are one determinant of location but on a regional scale in the UK there is not a substantial difference. The importance of raw materials as a factor determining location can be a problem as on some occasions the availability of raw materials dictates the location of a firm e.g. coal mining.
Parking by the dormitories is almost impossible. Students who live at particular dorms find themselves faced with the problem of having to park on the other side of campus. Those who live in Brown Hall, which is behind the Thompson center, have the most parking problems on campus. This is because the Thompson center is a very large building housing various departments on campus. Therefore it receives a lot of traffic all day. Visitors to the campus are taking over the parking lots around the Thompson center, which is forcing students to park other places on campus and some students chose to disregard the signs posted for reserved parking.
This essay will explain the basic economic problem and the types of economic systems used to resolve the economic problem. This essay will also include an explanation of the current structure of the private and public sectors of the UK economy and the competitive environment in which organisations operate and their impact on their behaviour. By using business examples, the significance of elasticity to business organisations will be explained too.
When businesses have parking adjacent or behind their storefronts they don’t push their buildings farther from the street and from neighboring companies; this looses that aspect of pedestrians visiting their buildings. When housing is added to an environment, the decision of placing and designing backyards, driveways, and garages differ between new urbanism and urban sprawl. Housing that usually has garages located to the side of the property have larger backyards and more enclosure to roads and adjacent properties. New urbanism follows this strategy while urban sprawling environments loose the interaction between residents and their neighbors, as well as enforcing street parking. Urban sprawl also encourages parallel parking, which breeds traffic, congestion, and a negative response from
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According to Victorino Abrugar (2013) Small businesses in the Philippines can be defined according to the size of assets, size of equity capital, and number of employees. The Magna Carta for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises defines a small business as any enterprise or business activity engaged in the major sectors of the economy ( industry, trade, services, practice of profession, operation of tourism-related establishments and agri-business) whether single proprietorship, cooperative, partnership or corporation whose total assets, inclusive of those arising from loans but exclusive of the land on which the particular business entity’s office, plant and equipment are situated, are ranging from more than P3,000,000
Car and bike parking systems have made finding a parking space much easier than the traditional way due to their convenient processes. One of the significant differences between the car parking system and the bike system is that the car parking is built aboveground and underground, while bike parking is only built underground. Therefore each of them has their special process likely to TreviParking is a company that has built the underground parking system especially for cars (“Automatic parking system evaluated”, 1998); additionally, one of the first and old projects for automated car parking system was in Hoboken, New Jeresy (“Automated parking makes debut”, 1999). To illustrates the same techniques of all automated car parking system, Haag (2002) explains that when the car’s passengers lift their vehicles in the entrance and exactly on the pallet, which is supported on the rack entry module of the vertical lift conveyor, the car will be raised to a higher-level and set in ...