Compare the Methods Used to Distribute Two Selected Products and Services

sale of Nike’s high-margin products to high-end customers. Regardless of the low cost of the World Shoes, they

Nike brands are sold in retail stores like Academy and Shoe Carnival. I often buy Nike in outlet stores. There is a Nike

Nike isn’t like a stock exchange, there is no central exchange for shoes. In 2014, there were over 50 different online markets selling shoes and that number continues to grow. This means there is a lack of efficiency, transparency, and sometimes even authenticity. Could you imagine if that is how stocks were bought? What if the way to buy a share of Apple stock was to search online and off, and just hope that you would pass someone walking down the street who was wearing Apple stock, not knowing if they had the best price or even if the stock is

Different retailing businesses have very different distribution methods based on the types of product that they sell, some arguably more effectively than others.

Companies like Under Armour, Nike and Adidas/Reebok have high threats of substitute´s products. These companies share the sport apparel industry and are vulnerable to competitive pressure from the actions of buyers whenever they view that their products can be substituted for others. The availability of substitutes invites the costumer to compare performance, features, and ease of use as well as price. Under Armour’s major competitors are Nike and Adidas/Reebok because they have a similar or competing product offerings. The top sport apparel brands offer similar products and that is why each one of them needs to keep a high standard and produce good quality products in order for customers to keep buying their product.

This assignment will be discussing about when I was working as a logistics manager for Morrisons and we will be talking about how Morrisons distribution system works and evaluating the system. Morrisons' market share as of August 2013 was 11.3%, making it the smallest of the "Big Four" supermarkets, behind Tesco (30.1%), Sainsbury's (16.6%) and Asda (16.4%), but ahead of the fifth place Co-operative Group, which had a share of 4.4% - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrisons. There is currently 569 stores across the UK and this means that the distribution system must be effective and be able to deliver goods to the Morrisons stores in time.

In this report the business I have chosen to evaluate is Tesco’s. Tesco’s is one of the largest supermarket stores around the world; it has 330,000 staff working in 3,146 stores, there are stores located in China, Turkey and Japan. Research shows that they have stores in 9 other different countries and 27 million people outside of the UK own their own club card to receive offers and discounts from Tesco’s. They sell a range of different products to suit customer’s needs. The products range from food and groceries, their own clothing brand F&F, their own mobile phone network, and also have personal banking. Tesco’s are all

There is a profound competitiveness bounded within today’s retail sector. Food City is one such retailer that could benefit from this week’s case study. Food City’s store product layout appears to be backwards from most grocery chains. Products are grouped in unrecognizable order. Due to the product layout, I simply do not do my grocery shopping with the company. Visual simulation would portray a consumer’s difficulty in finding products within the store. Layout could be analyzed and addressed to assist shoppers with a more pleasant shopping experience. I also feel that the Oscar Myer Corporation could profit from a visual product simulation study. Packaging differences are evident and distinctive. Due to product packaging, Oscar Myer products

Nike invested in their brand by getting sports heroes to advertise for their brand such as Michael Jordon, Tiger Woods and the Brazilian football team. This further fuel the products appeal towards the consumers.

The organisation I chose for this assignment is called J Sainsbury plc. J Sainsbury plc is one of the world's leading retailers, playing a part in the lives of 15 million customers a week. John James and Mary established Sainsbury Supermarkets in 1869. Sainsbury's Supermarkets employs over 138,000 people. Of these 70 per cent are part time and 30 per cent are full time. 58 percent of colleagues are women. A large Sainsbury's Supermarket offers over 23,000 products - 40% of these are Sainsbury's own brand. Sainsbury's serve nearly 10 million customers at 432 stores throughout the UK each week. Of these stores, 17 are in Scotland, nine in Wales and seven in Northern Ireland. Nearly 60 percent of

The purpose of this report is to compare and discuss the performance of Sainsbury and Morrison’s, check their performance as a food retailers and evaluate them on CORE framework analysis. The framework comprises four stages: context, overview, ratios and evaluation together with external and internal analysis which will help evaluate and compare two retail companies.

The distribution of food is different from clothing as suppliers will need to bear in mind how to appropriately handle food products, example, and health inspection in storage room to avoid transmissible disease. The food distribution is short to ensure that the food is fresh and will not go out of date. This is why many food retailer like Tesco mainly source their product in UK than overseas. Food like fruits are perishable therefore retailers need to take in consideration to how they will handle the product, transport they are going to use, preservation of product and how it’s going to be packaged before they sell it to customers. Perishable food like fresh strawberries or frozen food are both time and temperature sensitive. This is why business like Tesco usually temperature in their storage room is at optimum temperature range to maintain quality and freshness of the food like fresh strawberries.

The Nike production system can be stratified into three classes; developed partners, volume producers and developing sources (Donaghu & Barff, 1990). Although Nike has developed different levels of supplier relationships with each class the production network is commonly classified as a ‘virtual enterprise’ where independent firms work together based on shared values and a common way of doing business to exploit a business opportunity through joint manufacturing (Pfohl & Buse, 2000).

The sportswear industry is very price sensitive and most competitors prices are about the same. Nike sells its products in Nike shops and the selling of its products direct to the consumers conflicts with other resellers of the brand. Most of Nike’s earnings are derived from selling into retailers.

Nike and Adidas both have product lines that are all about sporty activewear to even footwear. When it comes to Nike and Adidas their main goal is to attract people who love sports and most of all, your athletes and that is why these two stores don’t just focus on clothing. These two stores sell clothing like any other store but they both also sell different type of shoes for example they both sell running shoes , basketball shoes , cleats to even your normal everyday wear shoes , they even sell sport accessories and much more. Nike and Adidas have a variety of things that someone can buy and being able to actually customize certain things is what makes these two stores very