Impacts of a borderless society
Unit 6 Assignment
Professor Robert P Black, MS
I am a serious bargain shopper. I try to save wherever I can. That usually means buying products from a mega chain, whose items are usually from outside of the U.S., verses buying from a local “mom and pop” store. The local stores usually have higher prices than most of the larger chain stores. I have never really understood why. For my family, buying all our food locally can be a challenge sometimes. My husband is Asian and he refuses to let go of some of the Asian food items he loves. For example, he has to have bok choy instead of green cabbage from right here. Rice is another issue for us. It has to be jasmine rice from a South East Asian
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There are even locations in Bellingham, WA and North Sioux City, SD that could have produced it. The bread on my sandwich came from East Dublin, Georgia. My Lays brand sour cream and onion potato chips came from Perry, Ga. My Jell-O pudding cup came from Woburn, Ma. Lastly, my cold and refreshing Aquafina bottled water came from Stone Mountain, Ga.
B. List where you purchased the products from.
A majority of my food was purchased from the Wal-Mart near my home. The store is less than three miles from my house. The peaches were purchased curb side at a fresh fruit stand in Clanton, Al.
C. Consider the chain of events that took the product to get from the farm/laboratory to your table. I try to buy local items whenever possible. Several of my food items originated in Alabama, or in some cases nearby in Georgia. The other items were most likely shipped on an eighteen wheeler (transfer truck) across several states. All of the items were gathered by the facility, processed if needed, then packaged according to size and type of food item. Once package, they were shipped to Wal-Mart. My peaches, on the other hand, went directly from the farmer to my hand. No middle man needed.
2. What are some of the benefits of a global market and why? List at least 2 benefits, weighing any short-term and long-term impacts.
There are many benefits of a global market. One major benefit is improved outsourcing. Outsourcing is basically contract work. They do
From the moment we wake up in the morning until the time we go to bed each night, we all use different forms of energy to perform our daily activities. On a daily basis I use energy for transportation to commute to and from work and run errands; for cooking meals using either my gas range, microwave or charcoal grill; for heating my home in the winter and cooling my home in the summer; for daily showering, and for lighting my home in order to be comfortable and productive. Most of the resources we rely on for energy are nonrenewable and will soon be depleted.
usually are more reliable and consumers are willing to pay a larger sum of money for the goods. The produce is usually fresher and comes from a smaller line of handling
Improper ethical decisions may be the cause of the failure, and as relate to my three behaviors for personal "code of ethics".
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Wow! That’s a huge question, since there are many types of food. I believe fresh fruits and vegetables are harvested in bulk from farms, orchards, vineyards, etc., and then go through facilities that handle the cleaning, sorting, packaging (for fresh), and canning. Milk originates at dairy farms and either gets bottled there, or shipped in bulk to facilities that process it into many
Today, firms have to deal with a global marketplace; marketers have no other choice. Participation in global marketing has begun to shift from a mere “option” to an imperative. The world is becoming more homogeneous. Distinctions between national markets
You know who your food is coming from rather than having no idea. Local farmers markets are an example of that. An article written by Prerna Gupta states that for a nominal fee, local farmers can sell their produce directly to the customers at a farmers market. Farmers market’s help the community to get fresh produce and the customer knows who their food comes from, and also where it comes from. Now, locally grown food is better for the community because it doesn’t travel as far, so there is less of a possibility of contamination. As stated in an article written by Prerna Gupta, “The local food movement aims at doing away with these humongous distances and with the complex supply chain between the producer and the consumer in our global food system. Instead, it tries to bring farmers and end consumers closer so as to benefit the entire community,” because locally grown food doesn’t travel as far, there is less of a chance to have it contaminated or tarnished because of too many people touching it, or bugs eating away at it. Also, locally grown food doesn’t travel hundreds of miles to reach us, and in those hundred miles, the consumers don’t know what went on with that food, or if it was contaminated. Finally, locally grown food has more nutrients packed in them. Since locally grown food has a shorter time between harvest and your table, it is less likely that the nutrient value has decreased. Food imported from far-away states and countries is often older, has traveled farther and sits in distribution centers before it gets to your store, rather than harvesting it and then selling the next day at a farmers market. Regardless of the fact that conventionally grown food is convenient for the community because they are sold in supermarkets, when you buy locally, you know who your food is coming from, there is less of a chance of contamination, and it is packed full of
Many areas in the world are unable to grow crops at all. (Source F ) Most will be unable to provide more than 2-3 viable food options. The way we circumvent this is by buying these items from other areas. The fact of the matter is there is no such thing as “locally grown” coconuts in Texas. There is no “farm to table” products in the Sahara. (Source E) It’s a practice which is unfortunately impractical in a large part of the world.
Secondly, locally grown produce is fresher than any other place. Produce that you purchase has been picked up within
That is a good question to ask, I would say that the food stores would have different contract with their seller. I say that because some of the food contract should be different, because you would not want to have to same contract that you have for the fresh farm food as the frozen food, since they would be package different. What do you think about the question.
In foreign markets apple is able to produce with fewer government regulations, which results in lower production costs, making the profit margin larger for apple. Diversification is another major incentive for apple because it spreads the risk in cases of difficulties or if one market suffers from recession, lowered demand, or changed preferences. In these circumstances apples sales and profits wont be as significantly impacted. This allows apple to cushion economic cycles to protect their company. Foreign markets also allow for economies of scale meaning apple can produce by mass production; this can lower the cost of production and again increase profit. By spreading into a global market it allows Apple increased sales and the ability to find new markets.
Well known companies like Nike, Microsoft, Sony, Shell Group are just some of the big companies that went global and expanded their trading around the world, they are large businesses that operate internationally in many countries. Development of worldwide integration urges companies to reach out international markets and interact with foreign customers. Businesses focus on fulfilling the demand of the market by its products or services, their focus is also increasing profit, and to achieve these goals they favor to expand their work in a foreign market. Other reasons to internationalize their business may be to become stronger than the other competitors and also to lower their expenses by getting resources they need at
Many marketing experts would agree with John Quelch and Edward Hoff when they write, "The big issue today is not whether to go global but how to tailor the global marketing concept to fit each business and how to make it work" (Quelch and Hoff 60). That was in the 1980s, and the demand is even greater today as companies seek to compete in the global arena on the Internet and in more traditional venues at the same time. Global trade shapes the way companies operate, the goods they produce, the alliances they make, and certainly the messages they use to sell their products. In the past, a product might be sold one way
Reasons why corporations like PepsiCo. need to globalize their operations include a need for competitive advantage against rivaling companies, increase their economies of scale to lower their production and distribution costs in moving products into new and existing markets, entering new markets to increase brand image and brand loyalty, and to increase net earnings which can then be distributed as dividends for their stockholders.
Today's average supermarket has become a place of optimal convenience for the average consumer. These stores have changed more in the past 50 years than they ever have before and most have become a one stop shop for people. You can find anything from clothes, tools, toys, medicine, hygiene products, cooking equipment and so on and so forth. Supermarkets such as the multi-hundred-billion dollar Walmart carry just about everything that most people would need to carry out their daily lives. Perhaps the most important products carried by supermarkets are the food items. That being said, most consumers can find close to any food product that they desire in today's supermarket. Whether that be grains, vegetables, fruits, meats, dairy, and or fats & sweets, the supermarket has it. We now live in a day and age where you only have to go to one place to meet the requirements of each area of the food triangle. How convenient is that? While our food system may appear to be ideal by meeting the every need of the average consumer, one should take a closer look and ask themselves a few questions. The questions that should be considered include; "How fresh is it? How pure or clean is it, how free of dangerous chemicals? How far was it transported, and what did transportation add to the cost? How much did manufacturing or packaging or advertising add to the cost? When the food product has been manufactured or "processed" or "precooked," how has that affected its quality or price or