Peapod Report

The range of competitors within the overall industry include chain and independent supermarkets (Krogers, Safeway, others); mass merchandisers and super centers (Wal-mart,Target); convenience stores; wholesale clubs (Sam’s); restaurants and fast food chains andnatural food stores (Whole Foods, Wild Oats

A successful internet startup company, CanGo has grown from a small retailer of books to an online retail hub where customers can purchase games, movies, music, and books. CanGo is looking to move forward into new and emerging markets such as online gaming while seeking to enhance their current operations through the use of technology. In order to help address any issues which may occur because of these proposed changes, CanGo has enlisted our consulting firm to help them with their financial and managerial problems. We have identified several key areas in which the company could stand to improve, and highlighted several important financial ratios which will help the firm to monitor its position as it moves

Grocery, Inc. Grocery, Inc. is a retail grocery store chain based in Any State; U.S.A. Grocery has stores throughout the United States. Grocery has written contracts with many different vendors to purchase the products they sell in their stores. Vendors range from individuals to international corporations. Tom works as the produce manager for the store in My Town, U.S.A. Jeff, 17 years old, is spending his summer vacation working for Tom in the produce department.

The mission statement is the vision of the founder. A man who recognized the glaring holes in the food market industry, and filled them with his passion to make food shopping a customer orientated experience.

Mission statement: “Through an efficient and diversified multi-channel marketing system, we provide customers a unique shopping experience by offering the best prices and service on a broad range of products and services.”

The company’s purpose is to “provide branded products and services of superior quality and value that improve the lives of the world’s consumers now and for generations to come. As a result, consumers will reward us with leadership sales, profit and value creations, allowing our people, our

Grocery Checkout Inc. (GCO), an online grocery delivery service was founded in 2005 by Nathan Felder and his fellow teammates at the University of Western Ontario (Western) as part of their business project. Recently, investors of GCO have been pressuring Felder continually for faster growth, and he has a number of growth approaches under consideration. As the co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO), Felder wanted to reflect on which option would be the best fit for GCO and how it might affect his role in the company.

Company products. Publix is well known for their customer service and there well lite clean stores (Publix, 2016d). They also focus on offering quality products to their customer. This is the reason they take a great amount of time evaluating many new products each year (Publix, 2016d). In each store they have over 50,000 products. In 2012, Publix added around 11, 500 new products to better meet their different customer needs (Publix, 2016d). Products include fresh grocery products for produce, meat, deli, seafood,

Their mission is to continually strive for the best in everything; the best in service, the best in food quality, the best in human resources and the

Mission statement: “ To be a leader in merchandising and distribution of food, personal care items, pharmacy, seasonal merchandise and related products & services."

Services: A host of services are provided to suit the needs to different businesses. Overnight shipping and next-morning delivery are most popular amongst other services like next-afternoon delivery and second day service. Same-day and early-next morning services are even costlier. Shipment volumes have risen over the decade

Currently possessing 24 million cable customers, 12.4 million high-speed internet customers and 3.5 million voice customers says arstechnica.com

It is the ability of a company of being fast and quick in deliveries. It’s the time that goes from customer asking for a product or service to the receipt of it.

Following considerable investment in new warehouse and carrier management systems the number and quality of delivery options had increased. Now delivery options include: same day, next day or standard delivery options that normally takes around 2-3 days. Also customers can set delivery date by themselves and if wanted can be notified via email or text alerts of delivery status. In addition 85% if orders are tractable

Having decided to go after the internet opportunity, Peapod most put in place all of its web structure, and find steady partners with whome it may do business with.