Grocery Stores

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Grocery Stores
Introduction
Shopping trends are fast changing, and local groceries are on the increase. Retail trading is perhaps the best choice for customers who are in a particular location. Local groceries are offer diverse shopping services to consumers, and customer satisfaction has become their main feature. Geographical locations have an obvious influence on the performance of the local groceries, whose retailers strive to stay at par with the store design and layout. This paper explores on the local media of advertising, promotions and marketing communications. The comparison between these modes of marketing with those practiced by larger stores is also made.
The competition that exists at the local levels of grocery stores focuses mainly on specific outlets, rather than the brands of the commodities (Koekemoer & Bird, p. 72). Retailers in these stores concentrate more on the variety of the goods they offer, so as to compete with their neighboring grocers in the same local area. Retail advertising can be done by various ways, such as giving details of the commodities sold or description of the grocery store (Koekemoer & Bird, p. 72). Also, the grocers may offer free samples for specific goods only, so as to attract various categories of shoppers in the area. One basic characteristic of advertising at the local grocery levels is that one advert may carry information on many commodities.
Promotions in the local level may take place through announcements, directed to local functions in the area (Koekemoer & Bird, p. 76). Local media is mainly used in these promotions. Radio stations and newspapers which operate in the local areas enhance these services by delivering the information to the customers ((Koekemoer & Bird, p.76). Most of these promotions target a specific grocery in the area, and customers can be persuaded into visiting the store for if special offers are announced
Conclusion
In conclusion, local grocery stores use the marketing communication to seek volume increase in sales. This is the same principle used by the store design in the larger scopes. Thus, it is prudent to infer that t...