Unit 32 P3 explain how the developments in the consumer market have impacted on food retailing.

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P3- explains how the developments in the consumer market have impacted on food retailing.

D1- Analyze how development in the consumer market have impacted on a food retailer-

In this task I will be producing a report where I will be writing how food retailing is influenced by the consumer market and how food retailers have adapted to meet such developments.

Food retailing operations- these are the different stores which are used to sell the products that they have to offer, they include different outlets that sell a vast range of products.

Superstore- a superstore is a large supermarket but they are normally not located in the town areas, also can be defined as a large retailer store where they have diverse merchandise, such as groceries, electrical product, and even clothing or even they sell a wide variety of products in a selected product, such as clothing, computing and even sporting goods. Business’ like this include Morrison’s, Tesco and even store likes wait rose, that specialize in selling variety of products. Super stores in the UK include Tesco Extra and Asda where their target audience is more than half then the country, so supermarkets are influenced by the consumer market where they listen to the ideas and thoughts and see what products they would like on the shelf, for instance if the customers want low fat products the business will provide low fat products, superstores currently provide almost every type of food product that is out there from food products for a healthy meal such as vegetables, low fat yogurt, low fat food in general to products such as meats, tuna, peanut butter for people who just like them products and even different vast foods for worldwide food for the different ethnicity groups in the UK such as eastern Europe, far east and middle eastern Asia and even African food, supermarkets are not really influenced by the consumer market because of the various different products that they have to offer because they do not just have one target audience but lots of different audience because if one audience does like a product they sell the business knows a different audience will like that product.

Limited range- this is the limited range products where they sell limited range products these can include independent stores that sell limited products but customers still buy them, limited ranges stores generally sell products that are in trend where as a larger supermarket sell a larger variety of products. So at a limited range store that they know customers are going to buy.

Discount food store- they can simply be called department stores, these types of stores simply sell store cheaper than the average retail store, the most common stores in the UK include stores like home bargain where they sell big brand food products for cheaper product, whereas store like Aldi, Lidl and farm food sell like branded products where they have the same supplier and manufacturer of the original brand but just sell the like branded product for cheaper products. These type of stores are not really affected by the consumer market where it is similar to how the consumer market affects the super store, this is because they sell a large variety types of product where they sell healthy products for who those want it and other type of products such as ready meals, and fresh fruit at veg like the superstores but are cheaper prices.

Petrol station- the UK petrol station sell petrol which is not edible, but the location where you pay for fuel there are other products that are available to purchase, most commonly snacks but in recent years they have started to sell lots of different products like a variety of different snacks, drinks, fruit and veg, sandwiches, petrol station like the ones that are run by supermarkets like Morrison and Tesco, where they sell in store products in the petrol station, this is because a lot of customers may just come to the supermarket locations to use their petrol station but they may be attracted to the other products that they have to offer in the petrol stations. The bigger petrol station in like the service stations on the motor ways include lot of different businesses such as having mini supermarkets like Morrison’s and Tesco and even fast food store such as KFC and McDonalds. The larger petrol station offers a larger variety of food products for their customers whereas the small petrol stations offer products that are for on the go such as snacks.

Top up/ home essential store- top up stores are stores that allow the customer to come to the store and top up their mobile phones, which makes stores like Tesco become more convenient for customers and also allow them to do their normal shopping alongside topping up their phones, a lot of businesses have introduced the top up feature because it allows them to have that additional feature to retain customers. Home essential store are stores that sell products for the home like furniture, food, accessories, decoration these stores include Tesco, when you link a top up sore and a home essential store you have a convenient business for customers to do all their shopping in one spot.

City stores- these are simply stores that are located in the city, these stores are purposely located in city Centre because they are in the busiest part in the city, where not only people use the city Centre to get to and from work but also to do their shopping, so Tesco, Morrison’s and Asda stores in the city Centre make it easier for people to shop. These stores have become more of a trend because people come back from work and school get snacks for themselves from a familiar store.

Mail order- when the mail service was first invented it was used to send mail from one monarch to another or one leader to another, where they will sell an informative letter to one person to another, but in recent years they have become a famous method to get their product they ordered online to get it sent to their homes, like the click and collect and service can be used to send a large variety of products to send to the consumers home. Delivering to homes have now become a trend because it is not that much time consuming and also mail order can be accessed from anywhere.

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Farmer’s market- sell fresh and organic products has also become a trend in society where people want fresh and organic products and also on television programs chefs like Jamie Oliver promote using organic and fresh products, so famers in the Yorkshire have their own businesses set up where they sell their products directly to their customers, instead of selling the products to a third party business and then getting sold to the customers, farmer market sell directly from their farms or they have stalls set up set up in towns and in a market on weekends and week days.   ...

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