Shopping Tips and Guidance by Mandy Claire

Vital Information:

Start-up Investment:

Shopping

Low - 00 (advertising costs)

High - ,000 (includes a van)

Break-even time Two weeks to one year

Estimate of annual earnings and Profit: earnings ,000 - million (solo at low end, with employees at high end)

Profit (Pre-tax ) ,000 - 0,000

Food for plan (and Profit)

In this age of two-income families, it is a rarity to find a woman who has time to manage both her work and her home with the finesse that she would like.

As the whole of frosty meals and fast food restaurants multiply, families are becoming increasingly dependent on them.

Consequently, population are exciting gargantuan amounts of "empty calories". The result? ... Obesity. Another? Children with behavioral problems.

On the flip side, population are becoming more aware of the value of "whole foods" as opposed to prepackaged.

Not only families with busy parents use "Personal Grocery Shoppers, but executives use them also.

With technology advancing as rapidly as it is... Executives are increasingly required to yield more projects given the same whole of time. They plainly don't have the time to go to the grocery store and considered select healthy foods.

Don't forget about the elderly and those with corporal challenges. Many Senior's as well as others who are physically challenged need "Grocery Shopping" services.

Also, reconsider Adult family Homes and bring up Homes. Often, it is difficult for care providers to program in time to grocery shop.

I've learned that with both Adult family Homes as well as with bring up Homes, that the care provider's are required to have a liscenced person remain with clients in the event that the care victualer needs to leave the home...Obviously, a inexpressive cost.

Keep in mind that there are Numerous Adult family Homes and bring up Homes that are run by couples as well as singles. Contrary to beloved thought, most of these homes are small operations.

You can compact with bring up Homes and Adult family Homes and do the shopping for them.

How can you Cash in on the Grocery Shopping Business?

Grocery shopping is one of the most recent and potentially lucrative services now being offered to the American consumer. Why not capitalize on this ever increasing industry?

Who, What, Where...

There are many dissimilar types of grocery-shopping services popping up all over the country. Some are attached to large supermarket chains; a group of the parent business or person leasing space as a concession.

At the other end of the spectrum are homemakers, singles, and college students who Earn a living by doing the grocery shopping for others.

Benefits To Owning A Home Based Grocery Business

· A Home Based Grocery business allows for a flexable work schedule. · Can be performed...even if you have young children.

· chance to meet people

· Low start up

· Low overhead

· Simple

· Lucrative

No matter what form the aid takes, the opportunities can be mind-boggling. Even the single enterprising shopper can make a good living for the next dozen years or so... Until supermarket chains catch on...

Once more supermarkets catch on, it may be inherent to present your existing aid to the supermarket chain as an established service.

By contracting your services with a grocery store chain, you can cash in. Of course, at that point, it's likely that you will have employees doing the shopping for you.

Since there are so few grocery shopping fellowships around, you will have to determine for yourself what the store will be when setting your prices.

You will probably want to break down your prices to reflect the dollar whole of the order, the distance for delivery and either you can cope some orders at the same time. (For example: for a order within a 5 mile radius).

Keep in mind, the bottom line in this business is volume. The more orders you can fill at one time and the fewer miles you have to travel, the more lucrative your business will be.

Start-Up Costs For your Grocery Shopping Business

All you admittedly need to start a shopping aid is customers. You can use word of mouth advertising to start, if money is seriously tight.

Investing in flyers and peppering the neighborhoods you select may be the place to start.

Note: Use card sized flyers for low cost advertising. Pay kids to deliver them.

Choosing Customers for your Grocery Shopping Business

You will want to target your inherent area carefully. Look for affluent neighborhoods where both spouses are working, neighborhoods populated by executives, Computer programmers....Foster/Adult care Homes.

Note: Get your hands on a Cole's Directory. Often, you'll find them in your local Library. You can also lease them directly from Cole's. Anyhow, within the Cole's Directory, you can look up addresses within it. The attractiveness is that Cole's lists the mean earnings for the single neighborhood. Advertising your Home Based Grocery Business

You can either hire kids to hand deliver the flyers in the specified neighborhoods or apply bulk mail to send your flyers to a single zip code.

I've paid kids .05 cents per door. Neighborhood newspapers and pennysavers are often an frugal place to advertise.

You might want to speak with the management at the supermarket you plan to apply to see if you can post a observation in the store on the bulletin board or pass out brochures or flyers in the parking lot or at the door of the sore.

Continue to be warm and cordial but don't confuse this with friendship development. In other words, don't make it a habit to hang colse to too long after your job is done. Keep it light, warm and professional. Don't become their psychologist.

Once you've industrialized trust, ask for referrals. You can form a referral program too.

Other than advertising costs, the only start-up cost you will admittedly need is a car (a roomy station wagon or van) that can adapt your orders.

Other business Considerations

If you don't have such a car and money is tight, you can study the possibility of leasing one. If you lease an automobile under your business name, you can write the monthly payments off. Of procedure you don't have to concern yourself with auto repair hassles...by leasing.

As business picks up, reconsider adding coolers to keep perishables on ice so that you can lengthen your delivery route.

Another thought... Turn your baseme or extra bedroom into storehouse so you can stock high profit bulky items like sodas or disposable diapers.

This way you can buy in quantity from a seller or food warehouse, increasing your profits.

Designing your Grocery Shopping Business

Some shopping services ask their customers to place orders on a regimented schedule; one each week or every ten days.

It's also common that customers are requested to check off their items on a pre-printed shopping list. You can form the list so that "Produce" is in one section, "Meats" in another, and so on.

This recipe guarantees a minimum whole of orders per week and allows for long range scheduling.

Other services are more flexible by allowing customers to "call in" to order on as-needed basis. This recipe maybe harder to program but could pull in more business because of increased frequency or impulse buying.

Because it is not a very good idea to carry a lot of cash colse to with you, it may be a good idea for your business to pay for the order as you buy them and then get a check from your customers upon delivery.

You will probably want to select one single supermarket in which to do all your shopping. Not only do you become familiar with the location of all the items you need, but you can become familiar with the store's personnel. A cordial "hello" how are you", may be the little boost you need to be able to get the best cuts of beef from the butcher or the best yield from the yield manager.

Time Is Money

If you are only shopping for prepackaged food, you can admittedly move straight through the supermarket, but if you have to study produce, meats, or fish, the time you spend is going to be greatly increased. So, charge accordingly.

You may also want to reconsider shopping in stores other than supermarkets. Customers may want you to stop by the liquor store, deli or carry-out.

You may wish to increase your fees for this added aid or charge the same as you do for groceries. It's up to you.

Note: if you base your pricing on the dollar volume for the delivery, the more high-priced price tags at those specialty stores will make it worthwhile to make the extra stops.

Organizational ability is the key to a victorious grocery shopping service. It is a challenge to keep orders straight since you will probably be shopping for some accounts at once.

Bridging the Gap between chance and Success,

OwnAbizToday.com Shawn Price

Copyright 2005 OwnAbizToday.com

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