But consumers aren't helping their fellow countryman earn his own living by buying these imported items. Consumers are giving their hard-earned money to Walmart to go back to China to buy more items. (Smith & Young, 2004). Walmart has created new jobs for people when they open new stores, but they are underpaid jobs. Many of the positions are part-time, therefore, they are positions without benefits.
In order to keep the sales budget in the range desired by the owners there will need to be changes made to the menu. All of the items that are not selling very often like coffee and the pizza should be taken off because the sales for them are not high at all. If they offer more types of alcoholic beverages which are what is already bringing in high amounts of revenue for the club will get sales sky rocketing. Offering more kinds will get customers to buy more of them because it is a possibility for the customer’s favorite brand or drink to be on the menu. As far as food goes the owners need to ask all of their customers what they would prefer to have on the menu for them to buy if they get hungry while hanging out at Club
Being a fine foods store that specializes in foods that do not use any type of preservatives there will always be a problem with waste. To help curb this problem I propose implementing a system that allows Kathy to forecast sales by using data from previous years. This new system will not completely solve the problems with throwing away food but, it will help Kathy forecast what she needs and will help to ensure that she does not order more than necessary. The second issue which is the high-payroll problem is a little more difficult to deal with. A possible way to help compensate for these high salary positions is to allow other employees to train with the current butcher, baker, and wine
* Meets the desire of Paul Livoria * Additional revenue source ( appendix 4) * Increasing franchising trend, 70% of restaurants in Dawkins are franchises * Takes advantage of population growth and high family disposal income in Dawkins * A strong motive for franchise managers to make their restaurants as profitable as possible * An opportunity to improve menu base on local demand, shared innovative ideas and success stories among franchisees that can help strengthened growth Cons * Risk of losing sandwich quality as managers might not comply to standard procedures or invest in people or maintenance * Additional cost of finding and monitoring company managers * In case of failure to comply to franchise agreement, terminating the contract can be costly and difficult * Increasing strict quality heath control in Dawkins and risk of losing franchises that do not adhere to these quality
Mrs. Kudler recognizes the importance of word of mouth promotion, which re-enforces the idea of in store gatherings and cooking classes. Over time, the organization will increase profitability if these events are positive and properly promoted. This is best done when attempting to increase the customer’s value chain. Catering and the Local Growers Both the catering service and direct buying from local growers will potentially increase profit for Kudler Fine Foods. Making good use of real estate (using the in store kitchen for catering cooking) and improving efficiency/lowering cost (agile inventory system) gives the organization a competitive advantage in the gourmet food industry.
Newly created technology prevents a lot of people from wanting to leave their homes because everything is so readily available there. Contributing factors to obesity in America are lack of exercise, the lack of a good diet, and also the lack of time. Exercising on a regular basis is a hard routine to get into, but it is better late than never. It’s especially hard if you’re not used to exercising at all. Once people reach a certain age or even a certain weight,
The increase of minimum would help the economy by generating more money in to the society, boosting the economy, and eliminating the demand for jobs. Raising minimum wage will have a great and long lasting ending. The United States would see a flow of money that they haven’t seen in years. This flow of money would show immediately giving the consumers more money to spend since 78 percent of the working force are minimum wage employees. Business owners will appreciate more money being spent in their fast food restaurants, grocery stores and clothing stores etc.
Many people will not even consider shopping at a store if they do not have an effective website. This could be a beneficial tool for posting the weekly ad and coupons on the website so that customers can print them out and bring them into the store. Conclusion With a good branding strategy and solid advertising campaign, Kathy will draw more customers into her store and create awareness that her store is in the area and have good prices thus driving more sales. Kudler Fine Foods could increase their sales immensely if they carry out a successful advertising campaign consisting of printed ads, radio spots and a nicely designed
He insists they would not eat as much if they knew that it was bad for them or if the industry put nutrition labels on their food. My outlook on this topic varied significantly from that of Zinczenko’s. I feel that it is not the fault of the fast food company. Neither would I put blame on the younger children who eat fast food. I would put most of the culpability on the parents who do not teach their kids how to maintain a healthy lifestyle and buy their children unhealthy food. I disagree completely that we as Americans suffer from lack of information about nutrition in fast food.
America began on small businesses and America has to continue to have small businesses to have a good economy. Wal-Mart endangers businesses all over the country because small businesses cannot compete with the superpower on account of Wal-Mart getting goods from places like China. Most people live within thirty minutes of a Wal-Mart and with their lower prices people will continue to shop there without realizing what they are doing to their own economy. Most people don’t realize that saving a few dollars by shopping at Wal-Mart is crippling all the local businesses around their area. Wal-Mart does not care about the American economy because they are thriving the way the economy is now, so American citizens have to stand up for their communities.