“The Supermarket: Prime Real Estate” and Effective Academic Writing To create a sound piece of writing it is imperative to develop skills that make the piece both enjoyable and understandable to the reader. By doing so we become academic writers who acknowledge the importance of careful and concise writing. The piece of writing that I found best exemplifies an academic piece in its use of Craft tips is “The Supermarket: Prime Real Estate”, by Nestle. I believe this because of its meta-commentary, outstanding framework while quoting, and use of transitional phrases. This particular essay pulls together ideas about a modest subject, the grocery store and its’ setup, in a way that is intriguing to the reader by the expansion of simple ideas, …show more content…
A way in which authors can make their piece seem more reliable is by quoting others. It is not enough to just use quotes, but rather frame them as well. This fully extracts a quotes potential, and therefore can be used to benefit the thesis. To frame a quote, it needs to be introduced, quoted, and it’s meaning explained in further detail. In Nestle 's essay “The Supermarket: Prime Real Estate”, she uses quotes to introduce her argument, that the supermarket setup can be used to your disadvantage stating, “the game is to maximize sales and profit consistent with customer convenience” (498). She furthers this saying that supermarkets are set up in order to have the customer see the maximum amount of products without upsetting them. The quote is introduced so that we can tell it is a basic marketing tactic and explained by saying its purpose, to show you the maximum amount of products. This “quotation sandwich” is a sophisticated technique that helps the reader to know the quotation is reliable and that it makes sense with the topics being talked about (Graff and Birkinstein 46). Nestle makes it known to her reader why your freedom of choice is taken away in the supermarket by adding and framing this quote about the setup of the grocery
Brookshire’s Grocery Company is a privately held Texas based retail food chain that operates in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. The company’s corporate office and headquarters are located in Tyler, Texas at the Tyler distribution center. Brookshire’s operates under three distinct banners: Brookshire’s food stores which are full service supermarkets, Super 1 Foods stores which are upscale warehouse style stores, and FRESH by Brookshire’s which is a concept store. Brookshire’s Grocery is rated #193 on the Forbes America’s Largest Private Company List with revenues of 2.4 billion as of December of 2013 (Forbes, 2013).
For 85 years, Publix Super Markets, Inc. (Publix), a nationwide chain, has set the precedent for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability. With an added emphasis on the past 15 years due to the implementation of their Green Routine program, Publix has become the gold-standard of sustainability, with comprehensive philanthropic initiatives that support and intertwine housing, education, food security, technology, and more. Publix is taking strides to become more sustainable, environmentally friendly, and beneficial to the local community. By breaking down sustainability into 3 core concepts: social justice, environmental integrity, and economic prosperity, an analysis can be made about the current Publix sustainability
Super Markets are few and far between in the south. There are plenty of different variations within a very small region that when one becomes your favorite it’s usually because if convenience. However throughout the local community of Jacksonville and most of Florida, Publix Super Markets have made a very valuable impression on its current consumers. Founded by George W. Jenkins on the idea of what makes a company successful is how they takes care of their customers but also their employees. Publix being one of the top eight privately traded companies in this industry as labeled by Forbes America’s Largest Private Companies List leaves those asking what makes Publix so different.
According to Principles of Microeconomics, a monopoly occurs when a firm ends up being the only provider of a good/service where there are no rivals due to difficulty in entering that same business. Once this happens, the firm has more control on the prices for its goods/services available to the public. The firm then has monopoly power as a price setter (Rittenberg, 2012). However, does this term of a firm being a monopoly apply to the Whole Foods Inc?
UK supermarket industry has high level of competition with several big retailers. Waitrose is owned by UK retailer the John Lewis Partnership. Sainsbury is the third supermarket chain in UK. In this report, there is an analysis of retail strategies about Waitrose and Sainsbury. In the supermarket industry, the retail strategies of Waitrose and Sainsbury are compared based on the highly competitive industrial environment. Before the main body, there is an overview of macro environment and competition conditions of supermarket industry of UK. PESTLE analysis is used to identify the macro industrial environment and Porter’s five forces are used to discuss the industry rivalry. After that, it is a market segment of Waitrose and
In the article The Supermarket: Prime Real Estate, Marion Nestle reasons with much evidence that it is the supermarket entities who control what the majority of Americans eat and, in turn, cause obesity epidemics in America. Marion Nestle provides sufficient arguments that could genuinely influence the reader to believe likewise. Contrasting Nestle’s viewpoint, I would contend that it is a shared responsibility of both the supermarket entities and the average American for triggering obesity, as it has become common today to dismiss personal responsibility.
Writing is a skill that seems to be easy, but there are several mistakes a writer can make in a paper. In Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein’s, They Say, I Say, The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, helpful tools are given to enhance people’s writings. There are variety of options that every writer should explore and later apply to improve their writing. Let’s explore these stylistic tools and how to use them to write a good paper.
Throughout this semester I have written several essays and journals using techniques both important and unfamiliar to me. This class helped me use these techniques and steps that are involved in creating and formalizing an essay. The writing process of an essay includes information gathering, creating ideas, and writing it on paper to create a cohesive and organized paper. In complete certainty I can say I lack many of the skills necessary to create such a paper, but during this course I have learned some writing methods which I believe have improved my essays. The essays and journals in this portfolio reveal both my strengths and weaknesses in my writing and how I have both continued to make the same errors and improved in other areas.
While reading the essays that my peers wrote about “The Death of the Funeral Business” by Sandy Hingston I was able to come up with the conclusion that my style of writing is very different than others. We were all writing about the same article but we all took different directions while writing our analytical response paper. My peers and I took a very small detail of the article and we analyzed it to show the purpose of Hingston. The fact the we were all able to find a small detail of the article that most of us missed is quite amazing. Sometimes when we read something we are so distracted that we skip through very small but important details. Out of the four samples that I read the one I liked the most was the second one. When I first started
When constructing a piece of writing, a student may sometimes find herself struggling to remember grammar rules or style principles. A handy reference guide would help her out immensely. William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White’s book, The Elements of Style, and Joseph Williams’ book, Style: Toward Clarity and Grace, assist writers improve their work in various ways. Strunk and Whites’ book took a simple approach, while Williams went more in-depth, with elaborate explanations and varying choices for each writing style.
During the transition from a high school writer to a collegiate writer, my strength at understanding the basic principles of good writing has remained consistent. I grasp the ...
C & C grocery store currently operates under a goal approach. They were committed to customer service and satisfaction. This approach provided the grocery chain with the profitability and growth they strived to obtain. The stores operative goals were attained and the chain had over 200 stores in operation. For years overall performance for C & C was excellent and came with ease. Unfortunately employee development and innovation and change weren't a top priority and it began to show. To remain successful C & C had to outsource and get advice from a team of consultants. The team dissected the company from top to bottom and advised the chain to implement an internal approach to go along with the goal approach. Implementing the internal approach will give the store managers full control of their stores which they do not currently possess. The store managers should be knowledgeable in all areas of the store to be able to fully communicate with staff. It was difficult for the district managers to give each store location the time and attention they needed when they were responsible for several other stores. Giving store managers more responsibility was a terrific idea of the consultants because the store managers have more day to day customer and employee interaction and could better assist needs. C & C was in desperate need of providing employee training and development. Cross training is beneficial for company as well as employees. Employees get the opportunity to learn other job positions and have the ability for advancement opportunities within the company. The company benefits from cross training because it provides flexibility if a store is short staffed, and it provides empowerment. A store full of happy employees from mana...
The purpose of this essay is to develop a STEEPLE analysis and 10-year outlook for Countdown Supermarket [hereunto referred to as Countdown], a leading supermarket in New Zealand, which is owned by Progressive Enterprise Ltd and is a subsidiary of the Australian company, Woolworths Limited; which in the last two years have won the best retail store award. This has portrayed Countdown to be a more confident, reliable, motivated and responsible supermarket.
In General, demand, supply and price are the major components of the economy in both competitive and non-competitive markets. Exchanging goods is occurring everyday and everywhere in the world so in order to maximise profit and the use of resources, companies have to know approximately the quantity of goods that customers require. This short essay will discuss the market mechanism in general and particular in food market in the United Kingdom.
I have learned many things throughout the course of the term, including such things as: how to write an essay and how to improve on essays that I have already written, how to locate and composite better research through the use of numerous resources found at the campus library, the internet, and the “Common Sense” textbook, how to cite research, examples, and quotations properly within the contents of my research paper as well as document it accurately according to MLA standards. Through the exploration of the “Subjects and Strategies” textbook, I have learned nine different methods used when writing an effective essay and how the different writing styles affect the overall theme and tone of the essay when used properly. This past semester, I have encountered many difficulties when trying to write these essays, but through the use of the textbooks, the aide of the instructor, and once I was able to classify the different types of essays and styles, I found them possible to overcome.