...city I visit. In Spain I visited Barcelona, Seville, Madrid and Toledo. It gave me a good overview of the culture differences between the various regions of the country. Activity: Most people in Spain have a very different schedule than us in the United States. Here we tend to get up around 6:30am in the morning and go to sleep around 10:00pm at night. In Spain they get up later in the day. We couldn’t even find milk or coffee in the morning until after 9am. The streets are deserted except for a few workers heading off to their jobs. At 2:00 in the afternoon until 5 or 6pm, the streets once again become barren. The entire city takes a “siesta” while they eat their large lunch and rest during the hottest part of the day. Only a few shops stay open for the tourist trade. The stores then open at 6 and stay open until around 9. The people would stay out until all hours of the evening and head off to bed around 2 or 3am. No matter how we tried, we never got used to the schedule. This was the hardest part of visiting Spain. Food: I found the eating times in Spain to be very interesting. You could find a very light breakfast of a croissant or pastry with juice or coffee around 9am. We actually saw some Spaniards having green olives for breakfast – Imagine that! Usually Spaniards would eat an omelette, tostada with olive oil or manteca (pork lard), or toast with crushed tomato (very strange to me!) Churros con chocolate – long, deep-fried doughnuts dipped in hot chocolate...
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...Once Upon a Shop Once Upon a Shop Is an essay, written by the British Writer Jeanette Winterson. The essay was published in the newspaper The Observer, June 13, 2010. The essay centres around her shop, Verde, in East London. Jeannette Winterson talks about the changes in London and huge firms overtake of smaller individual shops. Politics of the world is influenced money. Huge cooperation are the ones with the big money. The government decides through taxes who pays more, and who pays less. The government would benefit far more from huge cooperation, adding jobs and benefits the BNP positively. This makes the conditions for small businesses unsustainable. Small businesses build by passion and hard labour are insignificant for the government. Passion doesn’t provide profit. Profit which the huge companies hungers for. Huge cooperation’s competition is also too though for small private businesses. “I started the shop because I believe working from the bottom up is a good idea. Verde can’t tackle Tesco round the corner, nor can it change the fixed supply chains and discounting that make it so hard for small shops to compete with big business.”(page 10 line 249-255). In the beginning of her essay, she talks uses an historic view to tell the story of her shop. She starts by telling that she opened her first veg shop in Spitalsfields in 1805. This is clearly not true, but she explains that it is because of her townhouse age and history. Her house was built in the 1790’s and has...
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...orders. In the beginning, Andrew, Thomas and their families did the shopping and packing and made deliveries with their own cars. (“Our company”) They joined the internet in 1996 when they created and launched their own website, www.peapod.com, they also made the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing privately held US companies. Peapod was associated with Jewel until 1999 when it opened a facility in Niles, Illinois, and started picking orders from there. Using their own picking center helped them control inventory and product quality. (“Our company”) In 2000, Peapod became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Ahold, the international food provider based in The Netherlands, and pursued exclusive relationships with Ahold USA grocers, Stop & Shop and Giant Foods. Peapod was grown slowly and wisely by leveraging partnerships with other established companies. In mid-2001, when competitors like Webvan were going out of business, Royal Ahold purchased the remaining outstanding shares of Peapod, making Peapod the leader in the online grocery space. Since Peapod joined forces with Ahold they now serve more than 355,000 customers each year. (“Our company”) Peapod operates under a centralized distribution model with two formats: warehouses and warerooms (room where goods are kept or displayed for sale). Both provide next-day delivery, but warerooms, which are dedicated areas attached to Ahold USA stores, are primarily used in new markets so as to leverage the stores’ infrastructures...
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...Abram Lincoln Harris, Jr., was the first African American Economist; he was born January 17, 1899 in Richmond, Virginia and died November 16, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois ("Abram Lincoln Harris Jr Facts", 2010). He was born thirty-six years after his name sake, President Abraham Lincoln, signed the Emancipation Proclamation that lead to the abolishment of slavery and thereby allowing Harris the freedom to pursue his endeavors as an economist ("Emancipation Proclamation: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)", 2017). Although he was the grandson of a slave, he grew up in a middle-class household where his father, Abram Lincoln Harris, Sr., was a butcher in a German American owned meat shop and his mother, Mary Lee Harris, worked as a teacher ("Harris, Abram Lincoln, Jr. (1899-1963) | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed", 2017). Through the influence of his parents, he was able to learn German while his father worked in the meat shop and after high school he earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Union University in 1922. Two years later, he earned Masters of Arts degree in economics from the University of Pittsburgh ("Abram Lincoln Harris Jr Facts",...
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...Concept That Changed History A business concept that has changed history Over the last 40 yrs there have been several changes that have occurred in the retail industry that has changed the way we shop today. The business concept of most department stores goes back in history for hundreds of years, but it has evolved and changed over the last forty years. Initially most retail stores were independent and locally owned in the city they conducted business in. Department stores were identified by the products they sold. There were hardware stores, furniture stores, toy stores, clothing stores, grocery stores, and even produce stores. Consumers went to specific stores to purchase specific items. Local specialty stores were replaced by the supermarket. These new superstores specialized in fruit, vegetables and food items, while others went in the opposite direction offering their customers non food items as the core of their business. Consumers were able to purchase essential products that included clothing, furniture, appliances, toiletries, cosmetics, jewelry, toys, and even sporting goods from one location. This had a bad effect on smaller stores as owners were unable to compete with the bigger chains that offered consumers a wide variety of products. Over the last 20 to 30 years, we have seen these supermarkets evolve into yet a different shopping environment for consumers to shop. For example, stores...
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...Smithfield which is owned by the City Corporation, has been the oldest and largest wholesale market not only in the UK but also in Europe where meat has been traded. With a thousand year history, it is one of the great medieval markets in the City of London that still lasts on its original site. Once upon a time a “smooth field” market existed in the shadow of the old Roman city walls as a vast recreational area which was used for jousting and also as a place of execution during the Reformation. Then in the late Middle Ages, it became a famous weekly livestock and cattle market due to its access to grazing and water. It was described in 1174 as ‘a smooth field where every Friday there is a celebrated rendezvous of fine horses to be sold, and in another quarter are placed vendible of the peasant, swine with their deep flanks, and cows and oxen of immense bulk’ [2] . During this time, London’s population continued to expand rapidly and the market got to operate more often according to citizens’ demand so it opened most days a week. Hence, after 1725, the livestock’ size of the market had been grown significantly since animals were driven from all over the country to Smithfield such as sheep from Lincoln and the West Country or cattle from Scotland etc.. By 1800, as a result of the growth of population, there was also an increase in meat demand as well as some negative issues such as the place got more crowded with cattle, the public could not stand the encroachment; for instance...
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...A business concept that has changed history Over the last 40 yrs there have been several changes that have occurred in the retail industry that has changed the way we shop today. The business concept of most department stores goes back in history for hundreds of years, but it has evolved and changed over the last forty years. Initially most retail stores were independent and locally owned in the city they conducted business in. Department stores were identified by the products they sold. There were hardware stores, furniture stores, toy stores, clothing stores, grocery stores, and even produce stores. Consumers went to specific stores to purchase specific items. Local specialty stores were replaced by the supermarket. These new superstores specialized in fruit, vegetables and food items, while others went in the opposite direction offering their customers non food items as the core of their business. Consumers were able to purchase essential products that included clothing, furniture, appliances, toiletries, cosmetics, jewelry, toys, and even sporting goods from one location. This had a bad effect on smaller stores as owners were unable to compete with the bigger chains that offered consumers a wide variety of products. Over the last 20 to 30 years, we have seen these supermarkets evolve into yet a different shopping environment for consumers to shop. For example, stores such as Wal-Mart and Target...
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...com/essays/marketing/company-analysis-of-old-chang-kee-marketing-essay.php Company Analysis of Old Chang Kee Need help? ☎ 0115 966 7955 Old Chang kee which is based in Singapore engaged in the manufacturing and distribution of food products in Singapore, Malaysia and Republic of China. It is famous for its Curry Puff and later diverse into as many as 30 products which could be found in its network of outlets distributed around Singapore, Malaysia and Republic of China. Company History The Beginning of Old Chang Kee dated back to 1956 which kick off in a small stall inside a coffee shop located outside the former Rex Cinema along McKenzie Road. Crowd of people were attracted to the delicious pastry stuffed full of curried potatoes, chicken, and a slice of egg and fried with several herbs and spices, which is called Curry Puff. Every individual Curry Puffs were meticulously handmade to ensure the aroma was locked within the Curry puff. In 1986, Han Keen Juan take over the small snack shop upon facing winding up and carry the vision to turn the snack shop into a successful enterprise. SWOT Analysis Strength Strategic location The company owns more than 80 outlets around Singapore, Malaysia and Republic of China, of which 70 outlets are based in Singapore. The company market its range of food products from kiosks along the road to supermarket outlets and shopping malls at every corner of Singapore, thus allowing consumers to gain easy access to its outlets. Price and Variety of Food products All products...
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...Composition 2 Assignment 03 10/11/13 A business concept that has changed history Over the last 40 years there have been several changes that have occurred in the retail industry that has changed the way we shop today. The business concept of most department stores goes back in history for hundreds of years, but it has evolved and changed over the forty years. Initially most retail stores were independent and locally owned in the city they conducted business in. The products they sold identified department stores. There were hardware stores, furniture stores, toy stores, clothing stores, grocery stores, and even produce stores. Consumers went to specific stores to purchase specific items. The supermarket replaced local specialty stores. These new superstores specialized in fruit, vegetables and food items, while others went in the opposite direction offering their customers non-food items as the core of their business. Consumers were able to purchase essential products that included clothing, furniture, appliances, toiletries, cosmetics, jewelry, toys, and even sporting goods from one location. This had a bad effect on smaller stores, as owners were unable to compete with the bigger chains that offered consumers a wide variety of products. Over the last 20 to 30 years, we have seen these supermarkets evolve into yet a different shopping environment for the consumers to shop. For example, stores such as Wal-Mart and Target have expanded their product line...
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...For my presentation, I researched about money, trade, merchants, and medical care of Ancient Rome. While researching, I learned many things about the history of Ancient Rome. Their ways back then were very different then our ways today. Ancient Roman money was very similar to our coins today, yet very different. They had five different types of coins, but instead of the coins being worth anything we wish to buy like today, their coins were worth donkeys. Their basic unit of money was a copper coin called an “as”. A larger copper coin was called “dupondius” and was worth 2 donkeys. A bronze coin was called “sestertius” and was worth 4 donkeys. A silver coin was called “denarius” and was worth 16 donkeys. Lastly, a gold coin was called “aureus” and was worth 100 donkeys. All of these coins were called a “tiny newspaper” by the emperor. One side the emperor used to announce important events, such as military victory. Another coin may show the emperor as the chief priest so people think he had the support of the gods....
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...uncanny ability to thwart the very drugs designed to kill them. In 1966, the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine warned that if humanity continued to ignore the reality of bacterial “resistance,” they would “find themselves back in the preantibiotic Middle Ages.” It wasn’t until the early 1970s that some Americans began lobbying to ban antibiotics from the farm, arguing that feeding animals “sub-therapeutic” doses of antibiotics fostered bacterial resistance in meat-eating humans. Alas, science being what it is, for every critic who found evidence of links between antibiotic use in livestock production and antibiotic resistance in humans, another whipped out evidence to the contrary. Fast forward to 2013: Scientists are still arguing about the dangers of bacterial resistance and the debate about antibiotics as a feed supplement rages on. What’s missing is the history of why antibiotics arrived on the farm — and why farmers then and now have lobbied to keep them there. #### Understanding that history requires going back to the first two decades of...
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...Hunting: Right or Wrong? Throughout history the human population has depended upon hunting to provide food for themselves and their families. Additionally, the hunting and killing of these animals provides many types of uses other than just food. Things such as tools, clothing, and medicine are often made from different parts of the animal. The killing of wild animals for food used to be a part of everyday life. There are people that are both for and against the taking of wild animals for these uses. Animal rights activists lack the knowledge of all the benefits we receive from hunting and act to fast in saying it is unsafe; two solutions to this would be to educate the activists on the benefits and to show them just how much safety is taken into consideration. The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is a group of people that are against any type of the hunting of animals for food. Outcasts from ALF formed a militia, known, as the Animal Rights Militia (ARM). ARM believes that ALF does not take their violence far enough with regards to direct action (ALF, n.d.). Several examples of the violence that ARM is responsible for as stated on their website: Animal Rights Militia actions in England include incendiary devices causing economic damage to animal abusers. Some examples include Aug. 10, 1994 where C.H. Brown's saddler & leather shop, Madison and West World leather shops, Edinburgh Woolen Mill, and Nurse's fur store all had incendiary devices placed by ARM. Tens of thousands...
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...strains of e-coli which is passed down to meat eaters. Their meat also contains massive antibiotics and hormones they are fed as slaughter animals, remaining in the meat to consume. Even organic meat cannot be proven that the animal was raised in humane ways, simply because it was not fed antibiotics or hormones. 2. Going vegan decreases the use of fossil fuels Going vegan has a lot to do with the production of fossil fuels from livestock area, responsible for about 64% of the ammonia emissions. Also, one calorie produced from animal protein for fossil fuel is made at a cost that is ten times the amount of one calorie of plant proteins. With this in mind, approximately one-third of all fossil fuels go toward the production of animal agriculture. A problem that is easily solved, going vegan for the average individual will save one-and-a-half tons of carbon dioxide per year. 3. Going vegan protects the rain-forest With the United States importing several million pounds of beef from the dense Central America, the rain-forest is fast disappearing from site. Part of the top ten countries ranked by highest loss of forests used to be Central America's Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Honduras. Due to the high numbers of cattle ranching, at one time Costa Rica lost over 83% of its forests by 1983 - with over 300 million pounds of beef shipped annually to the United States for hamburger - due to the need for vast amounts of low-quality cheap meat. 4. Going vegan decreases global warming...
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...Concept Keeping track of grocery items has been a major concern of all household since the beginning of time. There are a number of items that is being purchased in the household. All of these products has a life cycle, either to use them or expire date. Our concept for a new business/service is to have a mobile app that will help keeping track of the groceries in the household. This service will be an extended service of a super shop (example: Agora, Nandon). The super shops have a membership system. Under that system they collect information about the customers shopping habits. Our app will be updated as soon as the members shopping from the super shop with the list of purchases and their validity period. The app will calculate the time the member needs to purchase those items again and will notify them. The Service Super shops have become a major source of daily household product supplier. From raw meat to spices, from dental hygiene to electronic appliances. All the items can be found in the super shops. In the busy life of human, super shops has helped them a degree ahead by getting all daily necessities in one place. Majority of the daily necessities are now being shopped from super markets. Super markets are now building their own customer database in the name of membership cards....
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...grocery store in Cincinnati, Ohio. “Over the next 130 years as the supermarket business evolved into a variety of formats aimed at satisfying the ever-changing needs of the shoppers” (thekrogercompany.com). There are more than 2,600 stores within 34 states and more than a dozen banners and their annual sales is in the billions. Kroger is one of the biggest grocery stores in the world. There are two departments that Kroger supermarkets, the bakeries and meat and seafood. History of Kroger “In the 1900s grocery stores bought their bread from an independent individual, but Barney Kroger has, come up with the idea to put the all of the main ingredients together to be able to make a profit” (thekrogerco.com). He decided that if he was to bake his own bread he would be able to decrease the price, so that the consumers would be able to afford and still make a profit. In the year of 1901 Kroger was the first grocery store to have their own bakery, and also was the first to be able to sell meat and groceries all in the same building. He even cook his own can goods. “Kroger operates 37 food processing facilities that make thousands of products that range from bread, cookies, and milk to...
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