Nectars Nantucket Nectars Tom Scott and Tom First started Allserve, a floating convenience store serving boats in the Nantucket Harbour during their summer holidays in college. After graduation, during the winter of 1990, First recreated a peach fruit juice drink that he came across in Spain and started a side business selling fresh juice. Everyone loved the product and they went on to open the Allserve General Store on Nantucket's Straight Wharf. They named the fruit juice "Nantucket Nectars".
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Interview in CIO magazine with the CEO of 7-Eleven stores, James Keyes. We’re including it because it illustrates that a lot can be done to improve visibility and real-time informaiton flow with the technologies we have, such as bar codes and RFID, without the need in some cases for RFID. Just a few years ago, 7-Eleven had virtually no in store systems or strong linkages to corporate systems. According to Keyes, “We didn't know what we sold by store. It was total guesswork. It would take us almost
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people across 12 countries, serving millions of people each week in-store and online. Key to Tesco’s innovation success is its meticulous focus on managing margins. The company’s obsession with efficiency has been used to keep prices low and, in 2007, Tesco managed 1.8% deflation across its product lines. The company has also focused on making the shopping experience as easy as possible for customers – be it in hypermarkets, small stores or online. Tesco Express has led the move of food retailing back
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UK shops. The company has become increasingly dominant and has expanded into the convenience store and hypermarket sectors of retailing. Because of this Tesco has recently received a lot of criticism over its activities, which is of great interest to all of Tesco’s stakeholders. Friends of the Earth (FOE) are a pressure group who point to Tesco’s policies of buying up large amounts of land in order to build new stores, the history of fighting battles with local authorities over planning and how it
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II. Introduction What is the so called Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV)? What is the purpose of installing CCTV cameras in the school, store, and even in the house? What are the benefits that we can get in using this device? Will it give us an assurance of perfect security that will make us feel safe? These cameras have also changed over the years. They were once large white boxes that could not zoom in or out or follow objects closely. Today they can be small in size and hidden not to be noticed
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WAL MART SWOT ANALYSIS Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. was started by Sam Walton in Newport, Arkansas in 1946 in an effort to “help people save money so they can live better” and was achieved by keeping sales prices lower than his competitors by reducing his profit margin. From this simple concept the company has grown to nearly 3000 stores in 14 countries and is the world’s largest company in terms of revenue bringing in a staggering average of $401 billion annually. In addition to the Wal-Mart supercenters
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expert on Japan. The question on the table for this group was whether to enter the Japanese market by granting a countrywide license to an enterprising Japanese-American, to enter the market by giving a convenience store chain exclusive rights to carry Ben & Jerry's products in all of its 7000 stores, or to pass on trying to enter the Japanese market for the upcoming summer 1998 season. The decision was not isolated; rather, those involved had to consider the very history and mission of this well-known
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depend on it to fuel vehicles that transport people and goods; both of which can be considered necessary for our societies to work. No matter the price of gas, people need to get to work, school or soccer practice. Goods must be moved from warehouse to stores, from New York to California to be sold and all this requires the use of gasoline. There is no close substitute for gasoline - without changing cars, vehicle owners must continue to buy gasoline to drive. There is no gas-electric conversion kit for
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multipacks of 6 and 12 cans. Each can held two treatments or applications. Several potential markets are available for fuel-injector cleaners. The first is auto repair shops, including simple “lube and oil” change stores and more traditional repair shops. Many times, the proprietors of these stores welcome the idea of a small display of an auto repair or maintenance product, as long as the owner believes the
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own products are as good as the brands, but at lower price points. The campaign has been successful in driving customers into store and the discounter has recently created an app to help calculate savings before shopping.! ! 3. Smarter merchandising! ! ! 4. Driving fresh sales! ! ! On a recent visit to Aldi Hatfield we saw how the discounter has re-merchandised the store to create an improved shopping experience for its customers . This is an estate-wide project which has seen Aldi
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