These efforts in customer and community service help Lowes Foods to increase their sales and therefore profits. One of Lowes Foods most successful programs is Lowes Foods to Go. The Lowes Foods to Go program is an online shopping and pick-up program where customers can log onto www.lowesfoods.com and shop online. Next they drive to the store and the groceries are delivered to the customer’s car. There is a fee of $4.95 for this service.
The person purchasing gets a good that is consumed in the household; considering it is food, it could be considered an essential purchase. Upon purchasing the groceries, the person paid taxes. Those taxes go to the government to fund projects essential to the community, which includes paying people for services. The store where the groceries were purchased use the money to pay employees, pay operational expenses to other providers and businesses, and to purchase more merchandise from vendor businesses to sell in the grocery store. Each purchase adds money to the economy which is used for further
Tesco's website allow people to search through the products, that customers can order through the Tesco Direct or go for it to the store. Another of good ICT use by Tesco is that they are one of the companies that have started allowing people to get the membership by getting a Tesco Card, which then allows them to gain points, because of which they will get many discounts on Tesco's products. The different costs incurred Tesco as a big company has to be aware of costs. The most important ones are the taxes and import duties that they have to pay. Other costs might include petrol for the trucks, by which Tesco Direct works and eventually money that they will have to pay back to customers who were not pleased with product, that they have purchased from the store, because of its quality as it might been broken etc.
This includes buildings and manufacturing resources. Physical resources in Sainsbury’s include tills, self-scanners, shelves, freezers, stock displays and uniforms. Sainsbury’s must have tills at all every store because they are used to scan and add up the price of products bought by a person in one transaction. Self-scanners are not a necessity although they are very useful. They are used by people who aren’t buying many items and it makes the buying process for the customer a lot quicker.
This leads to exchanging benefits for cash or other items in return for the use of the card. In most cases families that are in need and struggling are receiving aid from the state. “The Food Stamp Program pumped over $896 million into the Michigan economy last year, resulting in approximately $1.649 billion of economic activity in the state, with direct impact on farmers, grocers, and small businesses in the state”. The Michigan farmers association is working closely with the farmers markets to make the availability to purchase healthy fruits, vegetables easier for all card
5/2/13 BSA/310 Frequent Shopper Program Kudler Fine Foods created a frequent shopper program which gives customers incentives to continue shopping there. Their rewards are determined by how much is spent on groceries and how frequent purchases are made. “Frequent Shopper Program proves the ability to gather data for marketing programs and run promotions for the loyal customers.” (Frequent Shopper). Web based advertising would allow for major cost reduction and provide helpful and effective consumer awareness about said products. In order for Kudler Fine Foods to develop a functioning frequent shopper program, it must track and monitor consumers shopping behavior.
The Point of Sale (POS) cash register information is transmitted via the network on a daily basis through uploads at the store downloads at corporate. In a special report written by Liz Parks and published by Supermarket News (Parks 2005), independent grocers were encouraged t invest in technology as a way of streamlining operating costs. Chase, Jacobs & Aquilano (2005) discuss the benefits of using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) computer software to manage business operations with a single integrated set of corporate data. Having an (ERP) in place allows an organization to streamline processes through the reduction of time needed to process supplier payments or process customer orders. Kudler would be able to use an ERP to forecast future needs to assist with accurate purchasing, track vendor and retail pricing as well as other financial information.
They impact in any shape or form. The goal for Big Brothers Big Sisters, hypothetically speaking, is a Round Up opportunity at Stop & Shop, which was mentioned earlier. These store patron rounds up their change to the next whole number. One of the most important stakeholders would have to be the donor of the supermarket and their motivation to make this opportunity work. Donors have a say in what happens because they are the ones who are investing in this desired goal.
These items are items that the consumers are asking for and are in a high demand for which brings us into the store to shop or even browse because we know that there is always some new merchandise that is put out. There are times that what I find in this store seems so original that I am always returning to see what other new items I may come across. The customers will pay money for the products that are desired from Sincerely Yours which is exchanging product for
Every living organism needs food and lots of it to survive and grow in this world. Supermarkets are usually the main center of obtaining anything and everything a person needs in order to cook and eat food. Since everyone needs food, the supermarket is a place where many different people come for the same thing; food. In John Updike’s short story “A&P” and Judith Ortiz Cofer’s poem “The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica” the people are both in supermarkets but for various reasons and in very different settings. The imagery used by both authors display how they view life at their point in time.