scholarly journals Employee disclosures in the grocery industry before the COVID‐19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Kent ◽  
Robyn McCormack ◽  
Tamara Zunker
Keyword(s):  
Grocery Industry

scholarly journals Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emek Basker
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Network Externalities ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Retail Trade ◽  
Retail Sector ◽  
Fixed Costs ◽  
Grocery Industry ◽  
Coordination Problems ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Short Run

Barcodes and barcode scanners transformed the grocery industry in the 1970s. I use store-level data from the 1972, 1977, and 1982 Census of Retail Trade, matched to data on store scanner installations, to estimate scanners' effect on labor productivity. I find that scanners increased a store's labor productivity, on average, by approximately 4.5 percent in the first few years. The effect was larger in stores carrying more packaged products, consistent with the presence of network externalities. Short-run gains were small relative to fixed costs, suggesting that the impediment to widespread adoption of the new technology was profitability, not coordination problems. (JEL J24, L24, L81, O33)

scholarly journals Meanings and Implications of Corporate Social Responsibility and Branding in Grocer Retailers

2014 ◽  
pp. 351-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Candelo ◽  
Cecilia Casalegno ◽  
Chiara Civera
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Shared Value ◽  
Grocery Industry ◽  
Strategic Model ◽  
Commercial Value ◽  
Corporate Social

The chapter demonstrates the extent to which companies operating in the Retailing Grocery industry use Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as driver to enhance their brand and pursue commercial value, or to purely redefine their business priorities in accordance to evolving consumers' needs and expectations by making CSR a new concrete business model and evolving towards the concept of Corporate Shared Value (CSV). The study is addressed to analyse the matter of facts in two different European geographical areas: Italy and United Kingdom, chosen because of the peculiar approaches in companies' attitude towards CSR and CSV, ultimately. Many differences and some relevant similarities in the implementation of CSV as new strategic model between the countries have emerged, with UK showing the most formalized and standardized integration between social and economic value within its Grocer Retailer companies' business activities.

scholarly journals The analysis of individual Visegrad group members’ agrarian export sensitivity in relation to selected macroeconomic aggregations

2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 327-342
Author(s):  
Miroslav Svatoš ◽  
Luboš Smutka
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
Added Value ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Grocery Industry ◽  
Agricultural Exports ◽  
Group Members ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Visegrad Group

This paper analyzes the development of agricultural trade of the countries of the Visegrad Group with emphasis on development of the value of agricultural exports of the individual countries. The subject matter of the analysis is the sensitivity of the commodity structure of agricultural exports of individual countries and the identification of aggregations that are the least and the most sensitive to changes to the external and internal economic environment. From the conducted research, agricultural trade in the V4 countries was found to have developed very dynamically from 1993 to 2008, while the commodity structure of exports has constantly narrowed as the degree of specialization of the individual countries has increased (this applies especially to the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary). From the results of analysis of sensitivity to changes of selected variables relating to the development of the value of agricultural exports of the individual V4 countries, it appears that the aggregations that react most sensitively to changes are those that are the subject of re-exports, followed by the aggregations that are characterized by a high degree of added value. In general it can be said that products of agricultural primary production exhibit less sensitivity in comparison with grocery industry products. This is confirmed by the general trend arising from the very nature of consumer behaviour.

Monopoly Power Corrodes Choice and Resiliency in the Food System

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Woodall ◽  
Tyler L. Shannon
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Market Power ◽  
Food System ◽  
Monopoly Power ◽  
Grocery Industry ◽  
Size Scale ◽  
Retail Grocery

The wave of mega-mergers sweeping the food, agribusiness, and retail grocery industry from seed to supermarket has accelerated consolidation and concentrated market power in the hands of only a few dominant corporations. Federal regulators have done little to curb the merger mania in these sectors, which will ultimately lower the prices farmers receive for crops and livestock and raise the prices consumers pay for food. But the consolidation also has significantly constrained the range of choices consumers have at the supermarket, prevented independent food innovators from surviving in the marketplace, amplified food safety problems, and presented challenges to the resiliency of the food system itself. This article examines the size, scale, and scope of recent mergers in the food, agribusiness, and grocery retail sectors and discusses the ramifications for consumers, farmers, and the food system.

scholarly journals Online Grocery Shopping: a Boom, Hype, or Black Ice?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Bongard
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Grocery Shopping ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Survey Tool ◽  
Grocery Industry ◽  
Food And Drink

Buying groceries online is no longer a novel phenomenon: recent studies (2016) show that in Germany, approximately 30 percent of potential buyers have already purchased groceries online. Together with the latest grocery shopping services from the online giant Amazon (e.g. Amazon Fresh and Amazon go), this growing sector of online food and drink retail comprises an attractive field for economic research. General research objectives in this field investigate sustainable business models, planning of logistics structures, and changes in buyer behaviour. The purpose of this present study was to analyze buyer behavior in the field of online food retail based on a process design derived from principles of Quality Management. A convenience sample of 822 valid data records was collected from November– December 2016 using a sophisticated online survey tool. The data set contains responses from 256 individuals who had already bought groceries online, while the rest of the respondents had not previously purchased groceries online. The study strongly underscores the great potential of online retail grocery industry, while also detailing the potential risks associated with this business model, such as low profit margins and packaging issues.

Effects of Contemporary Leadership Styles and Employee Engagement on Customer Satisfaction in the Retail Grocery Industry in the US

2021 ◽  
pp. 274-298
Author(s):  
Lateef Melvin
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Transactional Leadership ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Charismatic Leadership ◽  
Leadership Theory ◽  
Grocery Industry ◽  
Retail Grocery

Competition within the retail grocery industry has reached an all-time high. Organizations looking to differentiate themselves from rivals are focusing on improved customer satisfaction. This quantitative research study investigated how customer satisfaction was related to contemporary leadership styles and employee engagement. Transactional leadership theory, transformational leadership theory, and charismatic leadership theory were used as the theoretical framework of the study. Regression analyses were conducted to determine the effect of contemporary leadership styles on employee engagement in addition to determining the extent of the relationship existing with customer satisfaction. The results of the study indicated both transactional leadership and transformational leadership positively impacted or increased employee engagement; however, transformational leadership proved to be a significantly higher predictor of employee engagement.

The Market Inscribed Landscape: An Institutional Logic of Food Deserts

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 344-368
Author(s):  
Jarrett Thibodeaux
Keyword(s):  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Economically Disadvantaged ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Food Deserts ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Institutional Logic ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Grocery Industry ◽  
Location Data ◽  
Store Location

Focusing on the institutional logics of the grocery industry, this paper argues that the “neighborhood effects” of a lack of resources provided by organizations to economically disadvantaged areas are moderated by institutional logics. From the 1930s to early 1970s, the grocery industry had a logic of “economies of scale.” A new “mix–margin” logic developed after the mid–1970s: using low margins on high–demand items to gain foot traffic needed to sell high–margin items. Using company–specific store location data (from 1970 to 1983), this paper analyzes whether differences in company philosophy affect their presence in economically disadvantaged zip codes. Results show that supermarkets were less likely to locate in economically disadvantaged zip codes when operating under a mix–margin philosophy. These results indicate a shift to a “mix–margin” institutional logic corresponded with an exodus from economically disadvantaged areas by the grocery industry after the mid–1970s.

The Australian Grocery Industry

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-310
Author(s):  
Rhonda L. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Grocery Industry
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