Author: Niels Kornum
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781781008317
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This book attempts to shed light on why it is so difficult to develop and maintain successful businesses in the grocery e-commerce arena. Within the last five years, grocery e-commerce has experienced both consistent successes such as Tesco.com and irrevocable failures such as Webvan.com. Niels Kornum and Mogens Bjerre bring key researchers together to investigate the factors contributing to the success of grocery e-commerce, particularly in countries that had the earliest and most extensive experiences in this field: the USA, the UK and Scandinavia.
The Secret Life of Groceries
Author: Benjamin Lorr
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0553459406
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore's Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store What does it take to run the American supermarket? How do products get to shelves? Who sets the price? And who suffers the consequences of increased convenience end efficiency? In this alarming exposé, author Benjamin Lorr pulls back the curtain on this highly secretive industry. Combining deep sourcing, immersive reporting, and compulsively readable prose, Lorr leads a wild investigation in which we learn: • The secrets of Trader Joe’s success from Trader Joe himself • Why truckers call their job “sharecropping on wheels” • What it takes for a product to earn certification labels like “organic” and “fair trade” • The struggles entrepreneurs face as they fight for shelf space, including essential tips, tricks, and traps for any new food business • The truth behind the alarming slave trade in the shrimp industry The result is a page-turning portrait of an industry in flux, filled with the passion, ingenuity, and exploitation required to make this everyday miracle continue to function. The product of five years of research and hundreds of interviews across every level of the industry, The Secret Life of Groceries delivers powerful social commentary on the inherently American quest for more and the social costs therein.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0553459406
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore's Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store What does it take to run the American supermarket? How do products get to shelves? Who sets the price? And who suffers the consequences of increased convenience end efficiency? In this alarming exposé, author Benjamin Lorr pulls back the curtain on this highly secretive industry. Combining deep sourcing, immersive reporting, and compulsively readable prose, Lorr leads a wild investigation in which we learn: • The secrets of Trader Joe’s success from Trader Joe himself • Why truckers call their job “sharecropping on wheels” • What it takes for a product to earn certification labels like “organic” and “fair trade” • The struggles entrepreneurs face as they fight for shelf space, including essential tips, tricks, and traps for any new food business • The truth behind the alarming slave trade in the shrimp industry The result is a page-turning portrait of an industry in flux, filled with the passion, ingenuity, and exploitation required to make this everyday miracle continue to function. The product of five years of research and hundreds of interviews across every level of the industry, The Secret Life of Groceries delivers powerful social commentary on the inherently American quest for more and the social costs therein.
Grocery E-commerce
Author: Niels Kornum
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781781008317
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This book attempts to shed light on why it is so difficult to develop and maintain successful businesses in the grocery e-commerce arena. Within the last five years, grocery e-commerce has experienced both consistent successes such as Tesco.com and irrevocable failures such as Webvan.com. Niels Kornum and Mogens Bjerre bring key researchers together to investigate the factors contributing to the success of grocery e-commerce, particularly in countries that had the earliest and most extensive experiences in this field: the USA, the UK and Scandinavia.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781781008317
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This book attempts to shed light on why it is so difficult to develop and maintain successful businesses in the grocery e-commerce arena. Within the last five years, grocery e-commerce has experienced both consistent successes such as Tesco.com and irrevocable failures such as Webvan.com. Niels Kornum and Mogens Bjerre bring key researchers together to investigate the factors contributing to the success of grocery e-commerce, particularly in countries that had the earliest and most extensive experiences in this field: the USA, the UK and Scandinavia.
Grocery Store ...
Author: Nelson Alexander Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grocery trade
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grocery trade
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Thirty-sixth Anuual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Manchester for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1881. Together with Other Annual Reports and Papers Relating to the Affairs of the City
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385412803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385412803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Modern Bookkeeping, Accounting and Business Practice ...
Author: S. Irving Strayer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Census of Business, 1935: Wholesale Distribution
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
History of Putnam County, Ohio : its peoples, industries, and institutions
Author: George Kinder
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1734
Book Description
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1734
Book Description
Commercial Survey of the Southeast
Author: John Manfred Hager
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Alaska River Guide
Author: Karen Jettmar
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
ISBN: 0897329570
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The rich tapestry of Alaska is threaded together by 365,000 miles of waterways, from cascading mountain streams to meandering valley rivers, from the meltwaters of glaciers to broad rivers that empty into the sea. This guide profiles a wide variety of rivers from all over Alaska, concentrating on trips for intermediate boaters, and including a few major expeditions for the experienced river-runner. A section on gear outlines what to take into the backcountry.
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
ISBN: 0897329570
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The rich tapestry of Alaska is threaded together by 365,000 miles of waterways, from cascading mountain streams to meandering valley rivers, from the meltwaters of glaciers to broad rivers that empty into the sea. This guide profiles a wide variety of rivers from all over Alaska, concentrating on trips for intermediate boaters, and including a few major expeditions for the experienced river-runner. A section on gear outlines what to take into the backcountry.
Reports from the Consuls of the United States (varies Slightly)
Author: United States. Bureau of Manufactures
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description