Tesco PLC has been successful in the UK and in other countries largely due to Jack
Cohen, who instilled an entrepreneurial and service orientation into Tesco that would drive its customercentric approach for more than 80 years, and Terry Leahy, who established “the
Tesco Way,” which included the company’s core purpose, values, principles, goals and a balanced scorecard.
Tesco had an in store policy that a new checkout line would be opened if there was more than 1 person waiting in line and they were pioneers in selfservice checkout terminal. Tesco was also innovative with its store formats. …show more content…
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(price, product, target, format)
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Employees from local community, carefully selected to fit Tesco’s culture (p. 7)
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Nonfood items would account for only 5% of sales (p. 7)
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“ready to sell” approach, whereby many products sent from distribution center to store prepackaged, extending product freshness, protecting produce from damage, cutting down on spoilage, requiring less refrigeration, and reducing labor needed to stock shelves (p. 8)
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Leveraging relationships with collaborators for distribution (p. 8); this centralized model was similar to WalMart’s
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Smaller stores = easier permitting process
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Taking over existing, vacant drugstores = cheaper than building from scratch
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New stores built from premade materials = quicker construction, lower overhead, streamlined supply chain
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Energy efficient stores (30% less energy than comparable, traditional stores; some stores LEED certified)
Fresh & Easy emphasized everyday low pricing rather than weekly specials and hoped to
leverage lower operating costs to deliver what its website termed “honest low prices” on “fresh wholesome food” that “should be available to everyone” in a “neighborhood market.”
Fresh & Easy leveraged relationships with collaborators for distribution to create value by minimizing costs and emphasize fresh. Their “ready to sell” approach, whereby prepackaged products went directly from distributors to local