Question 1- It’s big news!
Reading the paper on the way to work you see this article…
CVS for Safeway
Retailing giants CVS and Safeway yesterday announced a deal which will see the pharmacy chain’s Health and Beauty shops opening on supermarket sites. Initially the openings will be on an experimental basis in seven stores, but if the experiment works, observers believe that the format could be introduced widely throughout the Safeway superstore chain.
Both companies were being cagey about the project’s potential yesterday. A Safeway spokeswoman would only say that if successful it is hoped to extend the trial into other stores. But one analyst said: “This has potentially enormous importance in the longer term.” Initially the experiment will be restricted to stores in Sunnyvale, San Bruno, Pleasanton, Milpitas, Santa Teresa, Los Gatos, and Santa Clara; Safeway will provide space and charge CVS rent.
CVS’s downtown shops have been under pressure from Walgreens and other competitors who have undercut CVS on perfumes, sun creams and condoms. But CVS’s spokeswomen could not comment on the company’s pricing strategy in the experimental concessions, and it is not known whether prices would match those in other health and beauty shops. Safeway already has five concessions with Lloyds Chemists, and 12 Sketchley dry cleaners.
What do you do?
A – Email summary of article to Janet Clifton
B – Find article online and send link to Janet
C – Email summary and link, along with your recommendations for Reeder’s response to the news
Question 2 – Drinks do
You receive this email from Fred Hill, a manager at your level and working in a closely related area:
Subject: Drinks Do: Old Bell, Queens Rd, This Friday
As you may have heard, Marianne and I got engaged on Saturday, and we will be celebrating this at the Bell and Anchor on Friday. We hope that you will be able to join us at about 5.30 after work for a few drinks, and then to go on for a Chinese restaurant at about 7.30. We need to make a reservation at the restaurant, so please let me know whether you will be able to come. Boyfriends/girlfriends/husbands/wives are very welcome of course!
The following post-it note also arrives on your desk:
Your girlfriend/boyfriend phoned while you were away from your desk and asked me to give you the message that he/she has managed to book theatre tickets for the Regent Theatre on Queens Road for Friday night. Performance starts at 7.45pm. Please call back to confirm whether or not you can make it.
What do you do?
A – Go to Fred’s drinks and theatre
B – Go to Fred’s drinks, meal and theatre
C – Go to Fred’s drinks and meal
D – Go to Fred’s drinks only
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