Unit 32 M2 D3 Discuss the importance for food retailers of meeting their social, ethical, environmental and corporate social responsibilities

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M2: Discuss the importance for food retailers of meeting their social ethical environmental and corporate social responsibilities

D3- Evaluate how selected retailers have met their social, ethical, environmental and corporate social responsibilities

Social

Starbucks needs to meet social factors in light of the fact that by being such a large and well known coffee suppliers, their business has an enormous impact on the general public around them wherever they work. The general public that influence Starbucks is their clients as well as it includes other people they manage their suppliers and their supporters.

For Starbucks is really important for them to meet their social factors and issues this is because it helps their business to do better and helps them in promoting their business also this helps them to create a bigger awareness to the community

Another factor for Starbucks is they have a mission and they support the community this means they are helping the community by offering them free coffee and they engage themselves in fundraising for charities.

Starbucks engaging themselves in these missions helps them get a bigger awareness to the public, if they didn’t follow their social responsibilities, they wouldn’t be a popular brand and could suffer sale performance.

Tesco has increased the number of non-food items offered for sale. Goods and services demanded by consumers is mostly influenced by the way they feel about Tesco. Customers are becoming more aware of health issues, due to which their approach towards foods is changing constantly, Tesco is adapting to these changes by accommodating the demand for organic products.

In the UK the birth rate has increased over the years so Tesco should start to look at selling children’s toys or products to open a new market which in the long run will eventually create more profit or make a lot more money because they’ll have an extra market that parents and children are interested in. They will also focus on education as seen on adverts they already sell school uniform for children that are a certain age which is mostly primary school. They will also sell school equipment for all ages from primary to secondary and even to college. This opens a whole new market. Tesco should increase their toy department because of the Birth rate increase but they are doing well on education because they do adverts on school equipment and school clothing for children.

Tesco have been involving themselves by setting up charities and events. Tesco said they are going to send 1% pf their pre-tax profits to charities to help and support them. They raised £50m for charities and they raised an extra £10m to support Diabetes UK and they are planning to raise £22m for Diabetes and British Heart Foundation to help and support them.

Comparing both Tesco’s and Starbucks is they both are helping their communities and they both are raising funds to help charities. In my opinion both businesses are doing great for organising events and activities to help support charities and causes

The advantage is Starbucks engaging themselves in these missions helps them get a bigger awareness to the public, if they didn’t follow their social responsibilities, they wouldn’t be a popular brand and could suffer sale performance.

The disadvantage for Starbucks is they are giving away free coffees and spending more money to set up activities and events to raise money. ...

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The disadvantage for Starbucks is they are giving away free coffees and spending more money to set up activities and events to raise money.

The advantage for Tesco is they are supporting companies like British heart foundation is their reputation increases and people will be more happy to shop at Tesco because of their support for charities

The disadvantage for Tesco is they are spending more money to set up activities and events to raise money

Ethical

Tesco have approximately 70% of total organic supermarket sales with an increasing percentage of these purchases made online – now accounting for 14% of all organic sales. Tesco are doing good because of the sales of their organic products they have their products with a whopping 70% sales

Supermarkets like Sainsbury’s are calling out to Tesco to stock more fair trade bananas because in my opinion it’s unfair for people to get low wages in Columbia. The price of a banana bought in a UK supermarket has dropped from around 18p a decade ago to just 11p now.

Starbucks use Fairtrade, this is really good because farmers and the people who grow it get paid good wages and if there wasn’t Fairtrade they wouldn’t get enough wages. On their website they use a lot of ethical sourcing with to help their suppliers and farmers.

As we have just seen Tesco do not stock fair trade bananas and it’s really awful because the people who grow them and supply them to Tesco don’t get enough wages as we can see Starbucks they do Fairtrade and support their suppliers and farmers, this helps the business grow because people who visit their stores will be happy with their performance. People who buy bananas from Tesco might not be happy because they don’t do fair trade.

Starbucks are following their ethical issues because they are doing fair trade and they help to support their farmers. Starbucks have to meet their ethical issues so they can do better and impress their customers and suppliers.

Tesco on the other side is they are slightly not meeting their ethical responsibilities, they do fair trade on their other products but for bananas they don’t. This might affect Tesco’s reputation and customers might not buy their bananas because they don’t do fair trade.

Comparing both Tesco and Starbucks is Starbucks go the extra mile because they do Fairtrade with their suppliers and they help and support their farmers, this increases Starbucks performance and reputation also more people would go to purchase their products because they do Fairtrade but when we look at Tesco’s is they don’t do Fairtrade on their bananas and their reputation goes down and people won’t be impressed.

The advantage for Starbucks is their reputation will increase and more people would go to their stores because they do Fairtrade

The disadvantage for Starbucks is their products will be more expensive because they do Fairtrade

The disadvantage for Tesco is their reputation decreases and their customers won’t be impressed because they don’t do Fairtrade on their bananas.

Ethical Bibliography

http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/buyersguides/food/supermarkets.aspx

http://www.starbucks.co.uk/responsibility/sourcing

Environmental

Starbucks and Tesco need to meet their environmental responsibilities because both company are really popular not only in the UK but internationally; they are both expected to set an example by looking after the environment and produce less waste. It is important for them to look after the environment because it can have a big impact on communities and customers.

Tesco is clearly committed to reducing its carbon footprint by 50% by 2020. Also, Tesco is minimizing the waste produced in their stores by increasing social conscience in customers. Tesco are helping the environment by reducing carbon footprint and minimizing the waste in their stores.

Tesco are using LED because they are proven that they can deliver energy saving and reduce maintenance expenditure. So far they have converted 1,200 to their small convenience stores to led lighting they save 17 GWH of electricity and reduces their carbon footprint by 7,640 tonnes each year.

Starbucks are making big progress as they say on their website they developing more environmentally friendly cups and they are working hard to expand their recycling programme to reduce waste they create. Another problem is climate change and it can affect their coffee growing regions, Starbucks are aggressively pursuing strategies to address this problem and help farmers mitigate the impact.

Tesco and Starbucks both are making big progress and both have their objectives to reduce energy, carbon footprint and recycling. This impresses their customers because they are helping the environment. Starbucks are already making progress on their reduction on carbon footprint by changing their stores green by using responsible building materials and energy efficient designs to reduce the environment footprint.

Tesco are planning to reduce their carbon footprint by 50% in 2020 but Starbucks are already making big progress, it just shows they are meeting their environmental issues and taking care of the environment.

Starbucks are meeting their environmental responsibilities by taking care of the climate changes as they are minimizing its energy consumption and using renewable sources of energy to lower the impact on the planet. If Starbucks didn’t care about the environment, their customers won’t be happy with their performance and they overall might lose out sales. Another way they are meeting their environmental responsibilities by recycling and reducing the amount of waste they produce.

Tesco are meeting their environmental responsibilities by reducing their carbon footprint by 50% by 2020 and minimise waste produced in their stores

Comparing Tesco and Starbucks is Starbucks are doing a lot better this is because they are doing a lot more progress than Tesco for example is their reduction on recycling, energy, reduce the amount of water, and reduce environment footprints but when we look at Tesco is they are reducing carbon footprint, minimise waste and reduce energy. Reducing waste and emissions not only does it cost a lot of money, energy and natural resources to, it will help to retain the moisture and keep your grass green.

The advantages for Tesco and Starbucks is their reputation will increase because they are taking care of the environment and already making progress, more people will go to their stores because they are meeting environmental responsibilities

The disadvantage for Tesco and Starbucks is they have to spend money to make these changes happen.

Environment bibliography

http://www.starbucks.co.uk/responsibility/environment

Corporate social responsibilities

Starbucks and Tesco need to meet corporate social responsibilities because it is very important for both Tesco and Starbucks because they are a popular company and they have to make sure to give back to the people who take part in their business that’s their customers and their suppliers.

Tesco sell different kind of fishes, this gives people a variety of choices to pick in front of their eyes and they will be really happy what the store has ready for them. If food retailers don’t do special ranges as more people want, consumers will go to a different food retail that does it. food retailers should do special ranges as it would help their stores do better,

Starbucks on their website they have their corporate social responsibility explaining what their commitments are with their origins, environment, communities and partners with these commitments they know what they are up against and they will know what to do

Starbucks has commitments to help them achieve their goals, helps them grow bigger In the future also Tesco are doing the same as Starbucks both businesses are taking the lead and following the demands of their customers and helping the environment for a better change this makes the public more happy and they will gain more customers.

Starbucks take their corporate social responsibilities seriously as their message says ‘’Giving back to communities and the environment. Treating people with respect and dignity’’ this message is their aims and objectives for their corporate social responsibilities.

Starbucks aim is to meet their corporate social responsibilities by taking care and giving back to their communities, customers, suppliers and partners.

Tesco aim is to meet their corporate social responsibilities so they can give back to their customers and communities. Tesco have three values/goals to achieve its corporate social responsibilities these are

Leading in the global fight against food waste
Helping customers and colleagues live healthier lives
Creating opportunities for millions of young people

Tesco are meeting their corporate social responsibilities because they have donated more than 200,000 school uniforms to children in Kenya, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh since 2009 with the help of their customers, F&F as part of charity event to support students from these different communities.

Starbucks are meeting their corporate social responsibilities because they believe in treating people with respect and dignity. They believe in by making investments that benefit coffee producers, their families and communities, and the natural environment, Starbucks is helping to promote a sustainable model for the worldwide production and trade of high-quality coffee.

Comparing both Tesco and Starbucks is they both have commitments and values to meet their corporate social responsibilities for example one of Tesco vey values is ‘’ Creating opportunities for millions of young people’’ same goes to Starbucks is they have commitments on their website for the environment, communities and partner. Both business meeting their commitments and values will help them grow in the future.

The advantage for Tesco and Starbucks is they both are meeting their corporate social responsibilities by giving back to communities, suppliers and customers so their reputation increases and more people will be happy to purchase from their stores and their sales will increase because they are meeting their corporate social responsibilities.

The disadvantage for both companies is they have to spend more time to meet their corporate social responsibilities and spend more money to meet them.

Corporate social responsibilities

http://www.tesco.ie/corporate-responsibility/