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Leigh Sparks - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Food, health, and data: Developing transformative Food Retailing
    Case Studies in Food Retailing and Distribution, 2019
    Co-Authors: Hannu Saarijärvi, Leigh Sparks, Sonja Lahtinen
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    Abstract As a response to industry restructuring, many Food retailers are searching for new initiatives through which they can engage themselves further into their customers’ lives. In this endeavor, digitalization allows retailers to integrate additional personalized resources—such as menu-planning guidance, help in tracing product origins and dietary information advice—with their consumers’ everyday processes. At the same time, Food healthfulness, consumer health, and wellbeing are growing concerns for consumers, industries, and governments. This suggests a new proactive, transformative role for retailers, arising not only from recognition of the weaknesses of current practices but also from the opportunities of directly engaging more deeply with customers’ lives. This potential new role of the Food retailer necessitates an in-depth understanding of its origins, as well as its diverse implications. Consequently, this chapter explores the key elements of transformative Food Retailing, analyses its potential, and identifies implications for consumers, companies, the academics, and society.

  • large scale Food Retailing as an intervention for diet and health quasi experimental evaluation of a natural experiment
    Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2005
    Co-Authors: Steven Cummins, Mark Petticrew, Cassie Higgins, Anne Findlay, Leigh Sparks
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    Design: Prospective quasi-experimental design comparing baseline and follow up data in an "intervention" community with a matched "comparison" community in Glasgow, UK. Participants: 412 men and women aged 16 or over for whom follow up data on fruit and vegetable consumption and GHQ-12 were available. Main outcome measures: Fruit and vegetable consumption in portions per day, poor self reported health, and poor psychological health (GHQ-12). Main results: Adjusting for age, sex, educational attainment, and employment status there was no population impact on daily fruit and vegetable consumption, self reported, and psychological health. There was some evidence for a net reduction in the prevalence of poor psychological health for residents who directly engaged with the intervention. Conclusions: Government policy has advocated using large scale Food Retailing as a social intervention to improve diet and health in poor communities. In contrast with a previous uncontrolled study this study did not find evidence for a net intervention effect on fruit and vegetable consumption, although there was evidence for an improvement in psychological health for those who directly engaged with the intervention. Although definitive conclusions about the effect of large scale Retailing on diet and health in deprived communities cannot be drawn from non-randomised controlled study designs, evaluations of the impacts of natural experiments may offer the best opportunity to generate evidence about the health impacts of retail interventions in poor communities.

  • flexible working in Food Retailing a comparison between france germany the united kingdom and japan
    2000
    Co-Authors: Christophe Baret, Steffen Lehndorff, Leigh Sparks
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    Introduction 1. The rise of the large format Food store Leigh Sparks 2. Employment in Food Retailing Leigh Sparks 3. Working time configurations theory, methods and assumptions for an international comparison Jean Gadrey 4. The organisation of working time in large French Food retail firms Christophe Baret 5. The organisation of working time in large German Food retail firms Johannes Kirsch, Martina Klein, Steffen Lehndorff and Dorothea Voss-Dahm 6. The organisation of working time in large British Food retail firms Paul Freathy and Leigh Sparks 7. The organisation of working time in large Japanese Food retail firms Thierry Ribault 8. A societal interpretation of the differences and similarities in working time practices Jean Gadrey and Steffen Lehndorff 9. Societal constraints and strategic room for manoeuvre: what options do firms have for improving employee satisfaction? Christophe Baret

  • performance in Food Retailing a cross national consideration and comparison of retail margins
    British Journal of Management, 1997
    Co-Authors: Steve Burt, Leigh Sparks
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    The leading United Kingdom Food retailers have recently come under considerable scrutiny in respect of their reported profits, margins and accounting policies. Journalists and analysts as well as academics have focused on comparisons with continental European retailers. This paper argues that a number of factors are pertinent to the debate on performance in Food Retailing. The classification introduced (accountancy practices, cost structures, management structures and control and the environmental context), is illustrated using UK and French company data. The conclusion is drawn that it is not just simple differences but also the operational dimensions of company practices relating to these factors which are important determinants of performance. Simplistic headline comparisons are too inaccurate to be meaningful.

Emmanuel Okechukwu Ogbonna - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • competitive advantage in the uk Food Retailing sector past present and future
    Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2001
    Co-Authors: Lloyd C Harris, Emmanuel Okechukwu Ogbonna
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    The aim of this paper is to review and critically analyse the internal and external sources of competitive advantage exploited by the major UK Food retailers. This aim is designed to facilitate the generation of a chronological and historical explication of sustainable competitive advantage within the UK Food Retailing sector. The paper begins with a review of the five main theoretical explanations of superior organizational performance. This conceptual overview provides the basis for a more detailed examination of the factors influencing the competitive advantage of companies. This analysis entails a review of industry-level factors as well as the investigation of firm-level attributes. After a brief discussion of the factors influencing the sustainability of competitive advantage, attention is focused on the history of competitive advantage within the UK Food Retailing industry. Review and analyses suggest that, within this context, competitive advantage is best understood in terms of `competitive eras'. The discussion of past, present and future competitive eras leads to a number of conclusions and implications pertinent to both competitive strategists and retail specialists.

Neil Wrigley - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • after the store wars towards a new area of competition in uk Food Retailing
    Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 1994
    Co-Authors: Neil Wrigley
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    Abstract A significant shift in competitive conditions has occurred in UK Food Retailing. The capital markets have experienced a collapse in confidence in the leading firms of the industry, and those firms have been forced to reverse key features of the corporate strategies that produced a ‘golden age’ of growth and profitability in the late 1980's and early 1990s. In this paper, three main reasons for that shift in sentiment are considered: the rise and wider competitive impacts of the “deep’ growing worries over property valuations, sunk costs and ‘exit’; and growing public unease about the excesses of retailer dominance. These reasons are shown to be rooted in the era of the so-called ‘store wars’. Finally, considerations is given to what the shift in sentiment implies in terms of the nature of competition to be expected in UK Food Retailing in the mind- to late 1990s, and some of the emerging of that new era of competition are identified.

Lloyd C Harris - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • competitive advantage in the uk Food Retailing sector past present and future
    Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2001
    Co-Authors: Lloyd C Harris, Emmanuel Okechukwu Ogbonna
    Abstract:

    The aim of this paper is to review and critically analyse the internal and external sources of competitive advantage exploited by the major UK Food retailers. This aim is designed to facilitate the generation of a chronological and historical explication of sustainable competitive advantage within the UK Food Retailing sector. The paper begins with a review of the five main theoretical explanations of superior organizational performance. This conceptual overview provides the basis for a more detailed examination of the factors influencing the competitive advantage of companies. This analysis entails a review of industry-level factors as well as the investigation of firm-level attributes. After a brief discussion of the factors influencing the sustainability of competitive advantage, attention is focused on the history of competitive advantage within the UK Food Retailing industry. Review and analyses suggest that, within this context, competitive advantage is best understood in terms of `competitive eras'. The discussion of past, present and future competitive eras leads to a number of conclusions and implications pertinent to both competitive strategists and retail specialists.

John L. Park - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Food Retailing and Food service
    Veterinary Clinics of North America-food Animal Practice, 2003
    Co-Authors: Oral Capps, John L. Park
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    The Food marketing channel is composed primarily of the farm sector, the processing sector, the wholesaling sector, and the Retailing and Food service sector. The ultimate goal of the Food marketing system is to deliver Food produced on farms to consumers. The Food Retailing and Food service sector not only is an important component of the Food marketing channel but also is vital to the United States economy. In 2001, United States consumers spent $738.8 billion on Food: $440.4 billion on Food at home and $298.4 billion on Food away from home [1]. This value corresponds to 7.3% of the United States gross domestic product for 2001. At-home Food outlets include conventional supermarkets, superstores, supercenters, membership clubs, combination (Food and drug) stores, natural and organic outlets, limited assortment stores, convenience stores, dot-coms, and gasoline stations. Away-from-home Food outlets include fast-Food, limited-menu, and full-menu establishments. The business of Food Retailing and Food service is undergoing salient change. According to the Food Marketing Institute [2], the singular force driving this change is the consumer. The popular press is replete with characterizations of the ‘‘time-starved,’’ the ‘‘nutrition-conscious or healthconscious,’’ and the ‘‘environmentally conscious’’ consumer. The Food Retailing and Food service sectors provide significant service to consumers. In 2001, over 80% of the United States Food dollar went toward value-added services and materials (ie, transportation, processing, distribution, labor, packaging, and energy) [1]. Farmers, consumers, and legislators often inquire as to why Food prices are different at various levels of the marketing channel. To address this issue, this article focuses on farm-to-retail price spreads and the economic forces that influence their magnitude; examples of farm-to-retail price