The Quality Of Life Has Taken A Different Side Of The Consumer

Brave New World covers a range of themes and issues that have been pertinent to moral society since it was first published in 1932. From genetic engineering to class struggles, Brave New World examines a future where embryos are chemically treated to ensure they fit a certain class, and then babies and children are hypnotized into believing governmental doctrines as pure truth. The use of Soma, a narcotic used as an instant anti-depressant, casts a worrying shadow on the chemical treatment of clinical depression to an extent, and ethical grey areas such as IVF are easily comparable to the key themes of the book. The enforced consumer society in Brave New World is strikingly familiar. Huxley may have written it in as a satire of the society

But what about the the company's perspective? What about the laws passed that protect workers while on the job? One of the authors I came across made a great point:

Now whenever goods from Italy are imported into the United States it is inspected by Border Protection, and Customs. Customs in New Jersey said that they have detected phony olive oil imported from Italy. This oil was improperly labeled as extra virgin oil(Rodriguez). Also olive oil farmers have begun to sell their products directly to their customers to skip past the mafia middle men who tamper with the oil(Rodriguez). Luckily the muckraking of the agromafia has made a very big effect on the security measures that countries use when dealing with Italian foods.

-Employers do not want to be liable for employees. Discrimination against people who are at risk for a certain disease is more profitable because it will potently save the company a substantial amount of money.

Ethically speaking companies should protect their workers from being overworked, but in reality some of these companies are the same ones with sweatshops in 3rd world nations. The world is money driven plain and simple. If allowed, companies will either overwork an employee or find one that they can. Care for quality of life in the business world is a relatively new concept thanks to laws and demands by customers.

A well educated man who is a husband and a father receives a job with good benefits. It is standard that when you begin working at a job with benefits, there is a ninety day waiting period for the insurance to become effective. By this time the employee had been employed for six months and one day his young son goes in for a check up and the child was diagnosed with leukemia. All the sudden now you have someone that has a catastrophic illness. Medical billings are through the roof easily costing thirty-thousand dollars a day in the hospital. Because your job offers benefits there is no privacy with the health insurance because your employer receives all medical billings

These exclusions have inspired a small industry of health plan advisers purpose on assisting organizations avoid the law’s specifications. Some are indicating little and big self-insured groups to offer a low-benefit health and fitness technique — in impact, delivering fed up employees to buy personal protection in the return market. The bigger organizations that do this threat investing expenses, but those expenses could be less than the cost of guaranteeing fed up employees. Others are indicating even little groups to become self-insured, especially if their employees are relatively low threat. These organizations might offer good benefits, such as the important health and fitness benefits, but not pay the yearly insurance fee and resulting in the risk-adjustment system.

This situation makes Whole Foods vulnerable to business cycles that affect United States. Like noted during the 2008 economic meltdown, the food industry in the US was highly affected and the sales decline by over 50 percent. Sales decline resulted in loss of jobs, salary cuts and the rise of unemployment leading to the decline of income. As the US organic and natural foods industry is high concentrated with rival firms such as Costco, Stop N’ Shop, Target, Traders Joe’s and Sam’s Club, Wild Harvest, Wal-Mart and Safeway (Harasta, & Hoffman, 2013), Whole Foods should venture into foreign markets and in particular Europe. An expansion in Europe offers vast prospective growth because of its large population. In addition, the Europe organic food market is more sophisticated than that of the US in reference to public acceptance and suppliers. In Europe, the target should be based on area demographics: the location with 40 percent or more people because they are probable of having more nutritional knowledge. (Harasta, & Hoffman,

If there was a choice for you as an American consumer between a Wal-Mart store that uses foreign goods and services over a local business that purchases local goods and local services, which one would you choose? Thousands of people choose to shop at Wal-Mart every day, which isn’t just the world’s largest retailer; it is the largest company in the global economy that brings the lowest possible prices to its customers. It has grown very rapidly throughout the years, bringing great bargains to its customers. However, despite Wal-Mart’s lowest prices, almost no one outside the world of Wal-Mart and its suppliers knows the high cost of those good deals. To reach a nearly unapproachable goal, Wal-Mart chose to avoid the United States’ products

Italian food can be traced back all the way to the 4th century, the year it originated in. Therefore it has been around for many years and throughout these years the food has experienced many changes and have been influenced by other countries. Italy also has influenced other countries and people around the world. Italian food was first introduced during the fall of the Roman Empire which later split Italy into two different sections, now know for different types of foods. Our group chose Italy because of the influences in our lives now and the many great dishes we have experienced in our daily meals.

The documentary opens with various depictions of supermarkets, examining the various products that are available for purchase. The narrator mentions a “pastoral fantasy” and states, “you go into the supermarket and you see pictures of farmers… the picket fence… and the green grass.” This depiction argues that the images we see on product labels and in the pictures that cover store walls drop a “deliberate veil...between us and where our food is coming from. The industry doesn’t want you to know the truth about what you’re eating because if you knew, you might not want to eat it.” Statistics

Italy exports more than €750 million euros worth of Grana Padano cheese each year, with the USA being the top foreign market for the cheese after

A model is “a real life example of the use of the concept that includes all the critical attributes of the concept” (Walker & Avant, 2011 p.163). The model case for the purposes of this paper is for the concept of quality of life. Sean is a 49 year old, widowed father of two adult daughters, whom he clearly loves and through objective data is supported by family, friends and church family. His oldest daughter is expecting her first child which will be a boy in just a few short months and he is exuberant with job as he patients awaits the arrival of his first grandson. He is currently working, saved his money for a car and his own apartment and is excited and financially secure. Sean has reflected many times to his healthcare worker that he feels a sense of happiness and satisfaction with his life. He continues to work, fulfill his sense of achievement and self-worth in school and while his life, meanwhile doing dialysis three times a week for four hours each treatment. He has had a few minor set backs over the past year but maintains that spiritual happiness as well. He has verbalized that he is satisfied with his health as it is stable, family, friends, financial security, spiritually, and satisfied with his achievements, feels loved and supported and states that he feels a sense of well-being. He even picks up the spirits of his healthcare workers with his positive attitudes on life.

Doing business in Italy is very different than in the United States. “Set to move onto a slow, but steady, path of economic growth;” Italy, at first glance, seems to be a promising business environment with projected increases in GDP per capita in the coming years, according to Business Monitor International (“Italy Autos Report” 30). However, there are many cultural, administrative, geographic and economic differences that make the business environment much different than that in the US. Generally dominated by domestic carmakers, mainly Fiat S.p.A., the auto industry in Italy doesn’t look very appealing for new firms because of the high barriers to entry. However, foreign carmakers like Ford have managed to penetrate the Italian

The Modern Trade channel in Mexico reached a market share in value terms of 33.1% (Barilla, 2016c). The strategic position of the central American state enabled Barilla to reach one of the most potential countries: Brazil. In this territory Barilla reached a 5% market share, an increase of 1% from last year, and opted for a dedicated packaging layout catching the Brazilian growing interest in the “Made in Italy” food products, especially in Brazilian metropolis (i.e. San Paolo’s market share rose to 19%, a 3% increase from 2014) (Barilla, 2016c).