How Does Lowblaw Impact On Canada

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The topic highlighted in the article about Loblaw’s shutting down 22 of its stores and starting up a home delivery service actually has a huge impact on Canada, Canadians and America. As indicated in the article, Lowblaws is teaming up with the American home delivery grocery service, Instacart. By doing this Lowblaws will now become available all over Canada through the website of Instacart. This has huge affect on Canadian businesses because it opens up the door to competition in the retail empire. For example, as learned in class, once a company does something different and becomes successful over it, other companies start following the trend and sooner than later, every company in the same felid starts to do it. This is shown a lot through …show more content…

Loblaw’s shutting down its stores and going virtual will also have an effect on Canadians. The service of home delivery groceries will benefit busy individuals who do not have time to go out and buy groceries. This can be from stay at home dads to full time working moms and teenagers. The service will make life a lot easier for those who multi task frequently and want to get things done on time. For example, a university student has to study for exams and the nearest grocery store is about a 20 minute ride, instead of having to stop studying and go to the store, the student can order the food that they want and not have to move from their house. It saves one time and energy to focus on other materials through the day. Lastly, Loblaws will be having an effect on America as well. Loblaws teaming up with an American company is very beneficially on both sides. The American company Instacart will be going international starting from December 6 of this year because of Loblaw Corporation joining their service. This gives the company a chance to use the transnational strategy of globalization by addressing the culture of local Americans as it is very common for home delivery of groceries, while having a global perspective of how their business does in another

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