Ecommerce practices by Tesco Stores Malaysia • Tesco’s eshop setup has more than 15,000 products on offer in different product categories with best-buy item promotions, including their validity periods, clearly shown on the screen. Buyers need to ‘Sign Up’ once they enter the homepage and go to ‘Check My Area’ by typing a postcode to see if their homes are within the delivery areas. • Buyers are required to enter their particulars (names, email, contact preference, billing and delivery address etc) in the ‘Sign Up’ form. They have the option to either maintain multiple addresses for delivery (home, office or anywhere else they like) or choose to repeat information by just typing ‘Same as billing address’. • 4 ways to find products to buy. …show more content…
• Final bill amount will only be confirmed upon acceptance of goods as prices may vary because the actual quantity delivered can be different from the guide price shown (e.g. weight based fresh food like chicken, fish and fruits) and items that were on promotion which no longer applicable on the day of delivery. The eshop allows Tesco Clubcard members earn points online to enjoy a discount in next purchase. Buyers can return the items they don’t want, as clearly stated in ‘Return policy’ and these items will not be shown on the final bill amount. • Buyers also can pick out items to purchase but do not have to check-out immediately. Tesco will save those items for them to continue shopping at a future date. • Tesco has email address of visitors who had previously ‘Sign Up’ with them but never shopped or those who only shopped once but never came back. It will use the particulars of these people to reintroduce itself by using approaches like offering incentives so that they could come back and shop with the brand. For Clubcard members, Tesco will use the personal data from the database to customize a suitable loyalty programs and ad
Remove some items from the cart – the cart should update showing the existing items in the cart, total price should reflect the new sum. Remove all items from the cart – cart balance should be zero, no items should be displayed in the cart. Click on an item in the cart – we should be able to see more information about the product we just clicked either as a popup or redirecting to product page. Checking out including providing an address and paying: Check different payment options If allowing check out as Guest, simply finish the purchase and provide an option to register at the end Returning customers – Login to check out User sign up
Tesco is amongst the largest food retailers in the United Kingdom (U.K) with over 3,400 stores and staff amounting up to 310,000. Tesco operates predominately in Europe and America with their headquarters located in the U.K. Tesco has the greatest market share in the U.K dominating approximately 28% of the overall market at the end of 2017. However, there is a constant battle in the highly competitive U.K supermarket industry with the four major players being Tesco, Sainsbury, ASDA and Morrisons. In recent years, Tesco has had to change their business model as well as their services to stay a market leader and differ-entiate from the competition. To find the main sources of competitive advantage that Tesco has over its competitors an analysis of the structure of the industry should be under-taken (Porter, 1980).
contribute to its gag rule. Tesco is also exposed to the non-food division of its business in which they are recorded losses and their competitive advantage is not sustainable any longer because the likes of the Aldi, Lidl and the one pound store spring up in the grocery stores in the UK. Hill and Knowlton (2006) described a study of the use of corporate reputation in the determination of financial analysts when assessing a firm’s operation. After inflating accounts by over £260 million, and wiping more than £2.5 billion off its market value, Tesco has severely damaged its brand, eroded consumer trust and shareholder confidence. To append to its woes, the Serious Fraud Office has set up an investigation into the company’s over stated profits.
Premier Inn is a famous British hotel brand with over 700 facilities worldwide. Being founded by Whitbread in the year 1987, the company is the result of a merge between Premier Lodge and Travel Inn. Premier Inn hotels operate under the strategic partnership between the leading international companies and Britain’s leading hospitality firm Whitbread PLC. This allows enhancing the popularity of the Premier Inn brand all over the world.
' The main aim for the firm is to stay as the UK 's leading supermarket and provide good quality services and products at a low cost so that they are cheaper than their competitors. Their objectives are to maximise sales which will increase their profits. They want to decrease their prices to make shopping cheaper for the average household. They want to introduce healthier products which will attract more customers and they want to help reduce food waste worldwide and guaranteeing surplus food goes to those in need. Brockenhurst college has many community values *********** Tesco is a public limited company (PLC) which means the public can buy shares in the firm.
People working longer will increase the size of the labor force, but there will also be further pressure on services. This would affect TESCO products as people are curving more healthy products, thus Tesco started producing organic products, it provides as well an esteem added to its products and services. Technological factors: Technology is an intrinsic element to Tesco supply chain management of Tesco, it uses many technologies like wireless devices, self- checkout machines, intelligent scale, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Electronic shelf labeling, etc. The utilization of Electronic Funds Transfer Systems (EFTS), Electronic Point of Sale (EPS) and electronic scanners helps the company to improve stock activities and effectiveness of distribution (Tesco, 2014).
Tesco is retail organisation working in the UK and has accomplish numerous turning points that made them the greatest retail supermarkets everywhere throughout the world. The organisation is working with various 67,784 stores in a wide range of nations on the world with a turnover of about £62.284 billion as it is recorded in the year 2015. Business pattern of the Tesco incorporates grocery stores, hyper stores, and superstores alongside their substantial assortment of organic and non-organic item in the business sector. The organisation is recorded in the London Stock Exchange. It is a part of FTSE 100 Index.
Capacity planning This is the process of knowing the production capacity an organization needs to meet the changing demands for the products. It helps to determine the quantity of the product needed by a firm to meet the demands of its customers. The capacity planning elements for Walmart are; facility, product and service, and human resource.
There are 2 types of store categories in Tesco Malaysia; i) Tesco Hypermarkets - The hypermarket format offers customers a complete one stop shopping experience for their needs. It carries more than 60,000 lines of products including nearly 3,000 of its own brand of products ranging from food to non-food items. ii) Tesco Extra Hypermarkets -
Tesco has built a lot on the strength that has developed as a market leader in the UK supermarket sector. Tesco makes sure their business all over
Executive Summary This report analyses Morrisons’ strategic developments since the beginning of 2000s till present time. Some key strategic directions are emphasized taking into account the impact on the business. Morrisons’ acquisition of Safeway, launch of e-commerce and vertical integration model of supply chain are discussed in detail. In addition, the grocers’ competitive advantage is identified as opposed to its big rivals, namely Asda, Tesco, and Sainsbury’s.
Geographic; as well as online availability, in the UK, Tesco operates nationwide, geographic determinants such as population density, competitors and ease of access affect which store type is built. ii. Demographic; the age, gender, occupation and family orientation of the average customer in the area in which a Tesco store has been opened are closely monitored and determine the type of store opened and what it stocks. The Tesco Clubcard scheme allows dataveillance on a scale with a high degree of accuracy. iii.
One of the challenges of e-business is that there are customers that prefer cash on delivery payment method because of limited online payment accesss for credit cards in certain countries. This payment method is a problem for global e-business, as it would delay the transactions of goods and payments. However, it is not a problem for Foodpanda because the food orders delivery is made within the country and hence cash on delivery is accepted. Apart from that, returning policy is also a challenge for e-business as it is more expensive with the addition of shipping and packaging cost. Foodpanda however, does not have a returning policy because the service that Foodpanda provide is a food delivery service, not goods.
Club card has received an overwhelming response from customers with over 2 million household members signed up to date. As of January 2009, Tesco have rewarded nearly RM10 million worth of Club card Cash Vouchers to the customers. Later in year 2010, Tesco introduce Green Club card and the Green Club card scheme. Tesco launched Green Club card Points to incentivize customers shopping with their own bags, introduce degradable carrier bags, and promote positive behaviour among employees through Energy League competition and a recycling centre to