Shopping in a traditional retail store, Loblaws, versus a box store, Costco/Club Price

Costco vs. Loblaws In this paper, I shall be providing my personal observations between shopping in a traditional retail store, Loblaws, versus that of a box store, Costco/Club Price. During the last ten years, the overall nature of retailing has changed significantly. There are now an increased number of mass merchandisers such as Costco, who are changing the outlook of retailing at the expense of traditional grocery stores such as Loblaws. There are a …showed first 75 words of 784 total…

…showed last 75 words of 784 total…out store space to various retailers. Costco offers an independent Optometrist center, but they have no interest to run it themselves because it would be too labor intensive. However, in essence, Loblaws is not a traditional grocery store because they have added services, such as a pharmacy, photo lab, healthy foods section, and a dry cleaner, etc, to try and enhance the shopping experience and to better satisfy all their customers needs in one visit.