Great Value Green Beans
What can be done to improve the bottom-line of green beans in the school lunch cafeteria. The price green beans at a particular date range in 2024.
Great Value Cut Green Beans – $0.50
• Store Front: Walmart at Maple Grove, MN
• Distribution Center: Bentonville, AR
• Sodium – 350
Walmart is a general store that has a bottom-line model which is fine because it attracts a demographic that has a certain income level.
Good and Gather Cut Green Beans – $0.55
• Store Front: Target at Rogers, MN
• Distribution Center: Minneapolis, MN
• Sodium – 380
Target is a general store local to Minnesota and attracts a demographic that could have been customers at Walmart, however, since Walmart is too big and global, Target sucks up the customers there due to a better assurance of quality on the front and back end.
Essential Everyday Cut Green Beans – No Salt Added – $0.79
No Salt Added
• Store Front: Cub Foods at Rogers, MN
• Distribution Center: Eden Prairie, MN
• Sodium – 15
Cub Foods is a food store chain that is local to Minnesota and although it is considered a bottom-line store and attracts a certain demographic, the generic brand of sodium has way less sodium.Green Giant – Cut Green Beans – $0.99
• Store Front: Lunds and Byerly at Maple Grove, MN
• Distribution Center: Jamesville, WI
• Sodium – 120
Lunds and Byerly is a local food store chain that is local to Minnesota and attracts a certain demographic that is either younger or older. It has two refined bottom lines in terms of green beans. The products are well known, Green Giant and Our Family.365 Organic Cut Green Beans – $1.43
• Store Front: Whole Foods at Maple Grove, MN
• Distribution Center: Austin, TX
• Sodium – 15
Amazon’s Whole Foods is about three times the cost of Walmart and has 0.04% of the sodium. In terms of eating the green beans long term, it is doable because it has less sodium. One possibility that can be done to decrease the cost is to optimize the supply chain, however, that is not the goal of Amazon’s mission as seen with Amazon Saver’s green bean because it doesn’t have enough surplus and isn’t readily available like Walmart.Our Family – Cut Green Beans – No Salt Added – $1.69
• Store Front: Lunds and Byerly at Maple Grove, MN
• Distribution Center: Grand Rapids, MI
• Sodium – 15
Coming back to Lund’s and Byerly, its equivalent to Amazon’s generic green beans but has an established name to it which is Our Family and it is located in Grand Rapids, MI.USDA Green Beans, Low-Sodium, Canned – $2.00
• Store Front: Public School Cafeteria
• Distribution Center: Uniform
• Sodium: 140
The USDA is the bottom line for students between K through 12 and although it costs more than the alternatives above, having uniform distribution ensures that students get quality. Sodium is right between the lowest and the highest which is balanced out. In order to increase the quality of the green beans, the entire product has to be improved, which is not a trivial matter when all things are considered. After some thought, we can either conclude that people have a choice in eating healthier or the simpler reason, nobody eats canned green beans. By adding a little sodium, it becomes more appealing to the target audience, a majority demographic in the public schools setting. In order to improve canned green beans, more research must be done not just in agriculture and preservation fields but in making the topic of this item of food tastier naturally. After improving, we can reintroduce this to the target demographic again and create a brand recognized for healthier and tastier green beans that students love by
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