Weekly Discussion

Weekly Discussion 4 (1/2 page -1 pages max)

Respond to the following:

Assess your satisfaction with Aldi and make recommendations about how the company could modify its business-level strategy to both increase your overall level of satisfaction and to attract new customers. Provide specific examples to support your response.
Analyze the five business-level strategies discussed in Chapter 4 to determine which strategy most likely applies to Aldi. Determine how a shopper’s experience might change if it switched to one of the other four strategies (your choice). Explain your rationale.

Notes to reference:

Firms choose between five business-level strategies to establish and defend their desired strategic position against competitors: cost leadership, differentiation, focused cost leadership, focused differentiation, and integrated cost leadership/differentiation (see Figure 4.1). Each business-level strategy can help the firm establish and exploit a competitive advantage (either lowest cost or distinctiveness) as the basis for how it will create value for customers within a particular competitive scope (broad market or narrow market).
Figure 4.1: see attachment.

Lastly-
Respond to Bahjat using at least (5 sentence or more) :

ALDI is a discount supermarket chain based in Germany. Albrecht – Discounts are a complete form of ALDI. The supermarket chain has two major groups. ALDI NORD and ALDI Sud. However, both groups are independent in their activities and operate on a specific market basis. Initially, each group was owned and operated by brothers Karl Albrecht and Theo Albrecht. The company has grown from a small business into a successful and most valuable retail chain with an annual turnover of $53 billion, over 9,000 stores in 18 countries, and approximately 100,000 employees across the country—the world. ALDI’s operations depend primarily on the concept of a limited classification – high-end goods sold in the first store are limited to the basic choices of most products sold at a fixed price and are expressed. At ALDI, everything is done from construction stores, supplier selection, location, and sale of goods to achieve significant savings in discounts that are always offered to customers at the final price. ALDI’s no-frills strategy is another cost-effective method. They introduced a cart distribution system. Customers have to put one penny in the grocery cart and get the coin back when rolling. This mechanism eliminates the need to hire someone who has a job to do: pull over the shopping cart. The food industry is revolutionized with the ALDI business model, which allows them to provide high-quality products at meager prices.ALDI Magazine
ALDI has a clear business philosophy and a few guidelines. It can be summed up by the following statement: “Highest quality at an unbelievably low price – guaranteed.” ALDI has five fundamental ideologies to be true: 1) significant savings, 2) excellent quality, 3) unique value, 4) select purchase, and 5) confident buy.
The organization orientation can be of four types. ALDI is considered to be a combination of a market- oriented organization. Let’s discuss the types of adjustments and then focus on some critical details of how ADI is successful in the food market mixed with market direction and sales. Production orientation Production Orientation is a business approach that focuses on procedures for the efficient production of goods and the cost-saving process. We assume that price is the only factor that is important to the customers.