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February 10th, 2019
Answer the following questions after reading the case
- How do firms in the supermarket industry make money?
- Please conduct a financial ratio analysis using the data in Exhibit 2.
- How do the results reflect the different strategies pursued by those four firms?
- What do the results say about how firms in this industry can deliver strong financial returns in different ways?
- What are the key sources of Trader Joe’s competitive advantage? Is their advantage sustainable?
- What are the main threats to Trader Joe’s competitive advantage?
- How would you modify Trader Joe’s strategy moving forward?
- Please read the following articles and comment on the strategies of Whole Foods. Are they a competitor to Trader’s Joe?
http://fortune.com/2015/02/11/whole-foods-same-store-sales/
http://fortune.com/video/2014/11/06/whole-foods-reports-9-growth-over-last-year/
http://fortune.com/2014/11/05/strong-sales-at-whole-foods-allays-concerns-about-rivals/
- Comment on this research about the food consumption in America:
http://fortune.com/2014/09/04/waste-not-want-not/
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