One Stop Grocery Introduction
One stop grocery has a clear business objective to develop, produce, promote and distribute produce, pharmacy, body care, and meats products and services. These products and services have been developed over 1 with a core focus on addressing the key customer problem and associated opportunities.
One stop Grocery will retail an extensive variety of strong products and non – solid merchandise at moderate costs from various brands. We will participate in retailing general lines of nourishment items, including crisp and arranged meats, poultry and fish, canned and solidified sustenance’s, new foods grown from the ground and different dairy items.
The company will carry out environmental research to enable
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The company will be using Business-to-customer (B2C) distribution channel as a communication tool.
Our competitors consist of No Frills, Walmart, London Drugs, Shoppers Drug Mart, and Donald’s Market. We realize competition is large in the grocery store market in Vancouver, therefore One stop developed a SWOT analysis along with a competitive analysis in order gain a competitive advantage.
One stop grocery has been created with a clear focus on the needs of our customers. Through a structured customer discovery process, we have identified the key customer problem as hunger, hygiene and illness. This is a critical issue for our selected target market of Pharmacy, body care, and quick food to go café.
Accommodation stores serve the whole acquiring populace of its land territory however concentrates on clients who need to buy things outside of ordinary working hours, for example, swing shift representatives and snappy customers searching for snacks. Therefore we have segmented our market into night customers, brisk customers, and
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Reliability
Our products are reliable and that’s what we stand for.
2. Competence
We have capable team of management that ensures that competence is observed.
MARKET ANALYSIS
1. Market Trends
Market and supermarket business has been in presence for whatever length of time that human began exchanging merchandise, yet one thing is sure, the general store and supermarket industry is as yet developing. The presentation of innovation and consequently online basic need retail location has for sure aided in reshaping the business. It is currently a typical wonder for markets and basic supply outlets to influence on innovation to adequately anticipate customer request designs and to deliberately position their shop to address their issues; basically, the utilization of innovation help retailers to expand store network effectiveness. Most likely information gathered from clients goes far to help general stores and supermarkets serve them better. Markets and supermarkets additionally participate in huge bargain basement deals and markdown deals to draw in clients. It is a technique that helps them invite new clients furthermore strengthen the reliability of old clients.
2. Our Target
Increasing revenue is the main focus of business in a capitalistic venture. The most profitable items for AWG are their fresh produce line which carries an approximate 5% profit margin, but requires an inventory turn time of three days to guarantee freshness and overall customer satisfaction. The application of a SWOT analysis demonstrates that AWG’s attributes far outweigh its limitations. At the end of 2012, AWG amassed sales reaching approximately $8 Billion (AWG, 2014). Walmart leads the retail grocery market, but as AWG erodes that ranking it will emerge as a logistics leviathan in the future.
A SWOT Analysis can be powerful to any company. The SWOT analysis for PetSmart allows them to expose opportunities that otherwise could be missed ("SWOT Analysis," n.d.). An additional benefit of a PetSmart SWOT analysis is gives the company an understanding of their weaknesses, which can result in a competitive edge for its competitor. Understanding strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threat as a company will give PetSmart an advantage over a company who chooses to ignore this type of analysis. In addition, PetSmart can eradicate any possible threats that could catch them off guard ("SWOT Analysis," n.d.).
The firm began to open “warehouse-style stores under the trade name Super 1 Foods and 1 ’superstore’ under the trade name Brookshire’s Supercenter” in the 1980’s offering people other ways to save money (tsha.utexas.edu). Brookshire Grocery Company is also currently operating grocery store in Plano, Texas under the name Ole Foods to try to appeal to the Hispanic population in the community. The company’s manufacturing facilities include a bakery plant, dairy plant, ice cream plant, ice plant and water plant near Tyler, Texas (Brookshire Briefs).
My organization, Trader Joe’s, is not an international business. Their stores are all located in the United States; therefore, I chose Whole Foods, who is a main competitor of Trader Joe’s for this assignment.
RNRA Team, “Supermarkets, Fresh Produce and New Commodity Chains: What Future for the Small Producer?” Hot Topics: February, 2004.
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In every business, there is an analysis called the SWOT, it is the Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats of a company. Wendy’s is a company that is against the use of frozen ingredients and it is a fast food place that has a slogan “Quality is our Recipe”.
Matching strengths to opportunities is also an important part of the SWOT analysis. The six main strengths of Walmart are having the largest workforce in the world. This provides them a big advantage against other retail companies. The second strength is investing in developing countries that are expected to grow exponentially. The third strength is having the best and cheapest producers that provide them with supply. The forth strength of Walmart is having a worldwide organizational structure, which provides Walmart with massive funds. The fifth strength of Walmart is having a workforce and diversified technologies that monitor and control the movement of goods. Last but not least, they offer everyday low prices so that no one can be cheaper than them, this provides them a huge advantage over other retailers. The four weaknesses of Walmart are the following. The first weakness is that Walmart depends mostly on sales volume due to its small profit margin. The second weakness of Walmart is that their business model is easy to copy. The third weakness of Walmart is that they have a lot of new competitors due to the online Market. The fourth and most important is that Walmart does not change its departments depending on the season. Walmart has a lot of departments where no one really shops due to e-commerce mostly. Walmart has four main opportunities. The ability to invest in employees training is a big advantage for Walmart. The chance to expand to more developed countries and increase revenue. The investment in the human resources department is also an important opportunity for Walmart. The better people you have in the hiring progress the better worker you are going to hire. The last opportunity of Walmart is to improve the quality of its products while offering everyday low prices. The threats of Walmart are the following. The first threat is the competition that Walmart has. Not
At the age of seventeen, Fred Deluca decided to open a submarine sandwich shop as a way to help pay for his education of becoming a medical doctor. Dr. Peter Buck offered Fred a $1,000 loan and became his partner and 1965 the first Subway store was opened in Bridgeport, Connecticut. They learned through experience how to run a business, with the integrity of serving a high quality product, and providing excellent customer service. Today, Subway is the world's largest sandwich chain with more than 41,000 locations around the globe. The goal is to serve the highest quality foods, and make sure everything produced meets the safety standards from the time it is grown, to when it is put into a sandwich. To insure this, sustainable agricultural practices such as cover cropping, and crop rotation this restores nutrients and minimizes pesticide and fertilizer use. With thousands of restaurants throughout the world, subways supply chain needs to be sustainable and efficient in order to cut costs. Many vendors and suppliers worked with Subway to add or move locations closer to our distributors, and we have implemented many re-distribution centers which help reduce emissions, and provide lower shipping costs. Subway has a Distribution Operational Efficiency program that’s purpose it so find ways to ensure all traveling routes and techniques are optimized, and all the trucks are shipped with full loads to reduce mileage, and be as efficient as possible. Recently, Subway has introduced a process in the United States that consolidates all orders of equipment into a single shipment for new restaurants, and restaurants being remodeled. This helps eliminate excess packaging, and unnecessary non-value added activity at the building site. Subway...
Local Capacity. The convenience store chain can provide local cooking capacity at the stores and assemble foods almost on demand. Inventory would be stored as raw material. This is seen at the U.S. fast-food restaurant franchise Subway where dinner and lunch sandwiches are assembled on demand. The main risk with this approach is that capacity is decentralized, leading to poorer utilization.
The aim of our business is to help in speed up the checkout process in the retail industry. The business also aims to offer greater control and satisfaction for customers when doing grocery shopping. Besides, the aim of our business is to facilitate the retail business to create new competitive advantage apart from the usual marketing mix strategy (price, place, product and promotion).
Challenges in Today's U.S. Supermarket Industry. 2014. Challenges in Today's U.S. Supermarket Industry. [ONLINE] Available at:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479076.aspx. [Accessed 31 March 2014].