Food Retail Sector Of The Food Industry - 1660 Words

1.The sector of the food industry being investigated is food retail. Food retail involves the selling of food at all levels. The organisation I choose to investigate within the food retail sector is Woolworths. 2.Woolworths provide customers with a wide range of quality products. They offer high quality and fresh produce. They mostly sell food products ranging from frozen meals, tin foods, fresh bread, deli items, milk, soft drinks, and packet foods etc. But however they also sell clothes, personal hygiene items, toys, bathroom and kitchen appliances etc. 3.The importance of using emerging technologies in food production, manufacturing and packaging is it helps improve the time, cost, efficiency and environment of the product being†¦show more content†¦4. The emerging technologies within the organisation of Woolworths that I choose impact on all sectors of the food industry in many different ways. Self-serve checkouts can impact on agriculture and fisheries by needing more produce to be grown/farmed. Due to having attracted more people by having check outs so people don’t have to wait in line. They also impact food processing and manufacture because they may need the barcodes on the products they sell to be longer/shorter or a specific way to work with the checkouts. It improves shopping within the food retail sector making it more efficient and easier to purchase goods. Self serve Checkouts can also impact on food service and catering they can run in grab what they need and quickly purchase and get back to food servi ce and catering for customers. The online shopping app can impact on agriculture and fisheries due to the app being accessible to anyone with a smartphone meaning more people can order from home because they don’t have to go into the store. Therefore meaning they will have to produce more stock to keep up with the demand. This will also effect food processing and manufacture meaning they will have to produce more packaging. It impacts on the food retail sector because they get more customers they now have to hire more people to keep up with the customers. Food service and catering can effect them because