Porter's Five Forces In The Pharmacy Industry

The two options are the traditional system and direct-to-store-delivery, where Kraft would deliver the coffee directly to individual retailers. Although the DSD method has its advantages in reducing distribution costs, controlling its displays, ensuring superior freshness, and improved customer service, it is not as effective due to capacity constraints in the warehouse and truck fleet size. In addition, retailers are spread out all over the place and there is uncertainty if Kraft had the resources to adequately restock shelves and maintain inventory on a store-level basis. There are several different promotional vehicles to generate interest, print advertising, TV sponsorship, consumer shows, direct marketing, and merchandising.

Aligning themselves be more competitive in the grocery store market share, Wal-Mart began offering organic foods in their stores, cheaper than their nearest competitor Whole Foods was doing (Ferrell, Hirt, Ferrell, 2009). When the economy experienced a downturn, more consumers were spending their money on the daily necessities and no longer buying luxury items that were not necessarily needed. Wal-Mart saw their profits increase because of their low price guarantee, low prices on prescriptions and a new focus on becoming

With that in mind, The Home Depot has two generic brand products within the store one is HDX that could be found in almost every department of the store, this product usually doesn’t carry a warranty and for the most part it is built for residential use due to it lower prices and quality point. Whereas, Husky is the other company’s house brand, in which this product carries a warranty and a bit more expensive but with great quality. Meaning the stages of products, whether new or old go through or their growth in the market place that is influenced by Market Demand. For instance, Managers in Leadership need to know what stage a product is in due to the benefit of a devise marketing program for product sales due to, a product goes beyond itself if its presented to the store proper, the way it is packed and the service as well customer service and warranties that is offered for the product from within the company. (Ehmke, Fulton, Lusk, 2005).

Pharmaceutical products require various types of organic chemical. There are a number of chemical suppliers present in the market. Instead of buying chemicals at the high cost, pharma companies can switch from one company to other. For specific APIs where the sourcing of raw materials is difficult, suppliers have a higher bargaining power but since most raw materials are easily available and suppliers are numerous, where one can easily replace the other, their bargaining power is low. " Bargaining power of buyer:

Increase in new gyms, increase in health-related products such as Fitbit, Lululemon, and Under Armour, etc. Having said that not all people prefer organics. This is evident in most of the food at the grocery stores being non-organic, which people are buying. Fast-food is still a cultural phenomenon, indicating that many people still value convenience over health. Along with good health comes disadvantages of buying organics.

Walmart is not perfect either, they have some cons base on the article “Wal-Mart, pro and con”. Morris says that the workers get mistreated and should get paid more(Morris). Walmart also spends 1billion dollars to get their word out. Walmart has a lot of money, why can’t they pay their employees more? Walmart does not have to pay a fortune to get the word out.

Like most companies, Tyson Foods is not invulnerable to threats from other companies or external elements that the company can’t control. The company has not been able to tackle the challenges present by the new entrants in the segment and has lost small market share in the niche categories. Tyson Foods has to build internal feedback mechanism directly from sales team on ground to counter these challenges. Financial planning is done improperly and inefficiently. The current asset ratio and liquid asset ratios suggest that the company can use the cash more efficiently than what it is doing at present.

Campbell Soup Company 's main weakness is the lack of expanding their presence because the company relies intensely on their current major buyers, Walmart buyers, the US market, and Millennials. Campbell Soup Company 's largest customer comes from Walmart, which accounts for approximately 17% of the company’s consolidated net sales. In perspective, no other customer accounts for 10% or more of the company’s consolidated net sales (Campbell Soup Company, 2011). If Campbell Soup can not pursue their strategy to expand sales in alternative retail grocery channels, their financial results will immensely be impacted. In addition, the demand for private label brands has increased significantly, and large retailers, like Walmart, this makes devoting more shelf space to these brands a profitable venture (Campbell Soup Company Form 10-K Annual Report, 2014).

This industry will be faced challenged when the location is not easy to be reached and the population of the areas are not much as expected. For example, the Aeon supermarket at Mid Valley Megamall Kuala Lumpur, the sales of this location is guaranteed as the population daily at Mid Valley Megamall in 120,000 peoples approximately (malaysiandigest, 2014). Other than that, most of the supermarket are operates or leasing in a popular shopping malls. This is because peoples nowadays are not going to supermarket on usual day or without purposes. For instance, Giant hypermarket at Plaza Sungei Wang is a good example.

The weakness of Nestle company is much of it sales depend on a few well-recognized product. Hence, any sudden change in consumer taste would affect the business. Next, grocery sales that sold in giant retailer such as Tesco which have the ability to reduce the price drastically without any deal from Nestle.

But that still would not be enough. The main reason these big stores are attractive, is because since they buy in bulk, the store Is able to sell these items a lot cheaper, but If they were to buy in smaller sizing, it would cost more thus bumping the prices up. So basically in order for these big box or DIY stores to survive this crazy millennial generation, they would have to become a smaller store in order to have enough room in the cities, sell smaller sized products so the customers can easily make trips to the store if they have a big SUV, or even car or not, provide a mainly organic food line-up, and still maintain very cheap prices and membership benefits. In essence, these stores would have to become cheaper but just as good of quality if not better versions of a Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods type store. So in my own opinion, as a student in an introductory business class and with my expertise, I believe that millennials will kill off these big box and DIY stores because it just does not seem likely or possible that they would be able to do all the changes to the store while still offering the cheap prices they do now.

In conclusion, the retail health clinics are a convenient source for limited primary health services. Both large and small clinic operators have employed various promotions, such as multimedia advertising campaigns to promote their retail clinics. Although retail clinics such as the Healthcare clinic at Walgreens state that their services increases health care accessibility in terms of convenience, this claim does not fully encompass accessibility by the majority of the city’s population. There are still in existence a population of individuals who are not aware of the retail clinics at select Walgreens stores.

Growing older is part of the cycle of life. There is nothing we can do about nature; nevertheless, retailers can try to help and make lives easier to seniors. For example, few drugstores I have stopped by such as CVS Pharmacy and Walgreens have attached to shelves magnifying glasses on chains near medicine bottles. This has been helpful, but it is not enough. Seniors still require for help to read labels.

I believe that these types of stores reflect how in food culture, the typical shopper would rather overlook a regular grocery store, in favor of a more easily accessible and all-inclusive store that still has everything they need in a more compact form. I know that 30 years ago store like these existed but were far more popular, until grocery stores because more abundant. Unlike grocery stores, the organization is not what I expected. While the store has items that I would expect to find there, the store’s setup, like previously mentioned, had everything mixed together, and while you could find the items you were looking for eventually, it was a little more difficult than finding items in a regular grocery store. Because Jodie’s did not include fresh vegetables or fruits like previous food stores, the freshness and quality of the food was as good as prepackaged food could be.

The everyday low pricing strategy works best in a broader store positioning strategy and supported with advertising. Hi-Value doesn’t need to be the lowest priced supermarket in the area for the everyday low pricing strategy to work. Lowering pricing needs to be used by all in the area or else Hi-Value will confuse our store image and positioning. Hi-Value must look at recent consumer research to see how we are positioned and how this pricing will change our image. There is potential to reduce operating costs.