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3 Fresh Take On Food Retailing VF
3 Fresh Take On Food Retailing VF
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Toko Ohmori
Smart sourcing
fresh
sourcing include
the following:
Perspectives
on retail
and consumer goods 2013 Winter
To uncover opportunities to improve its fresh-food
Fresh
Exhibit
buyers
Exhibit 1
who
their primary respon1 of believe
3
1. Value proposition
Fruits
and
vegetables
Meat
and
poultry
Baked
goods
Dairy
Fish
2. Merchandising
4. Store processes
Cold cuts
and
cooked meat
24
25
transparency
intoon
theretail
performance
of suppliersgoods
weekly
the impact of sourcing
Perspectives
and consumer
2013negotiations,
Winter
Exhibit 2
over
time and are a critical input into the supplier
Fresh
strategyfor
suppliers with consistently
Exhibit 3 ofexample,
3
Price of banana
Supplier 1
Supplier 4
Supplier 7
Supplier 2
Supplier 5
Supplier 8
Supplier 3
Supplier 6
Supplier 9
Market price
(without transport)
1.4
24%
1.2
35%
1.0
27%
0.8
0.6
0
8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 48 50 52
Week of purchase
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Shrinking shrinkage
of shelf space.
Fact-based ordering
current stock levels in the store. Some freshdepartment managers place orders for the next
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shrink levels.
The authors thank Yvonne Fahy, Daniel Lubli, Laura Meyer, and Andreas Moosdorf for their contributions to this article.
Raphael Buck is a principal in McKinseys Zurich office, and Arnaud Minvielle is a principal in the Paris office.
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