Marketing (definition, pre-Jobs)
Understanding your product's competitive differentiation, and best selling this angle to your audience.
Marketing (definition, 2011)
Analyzing consumer need and re-designing your product to better match it.
October 5, 2011
What if Whole Foods Became a Not-for-Profit?
What if Whole Foods became a not-for-profit?
What if CEO John Mackey had a personal belief that the world should have ever-increasing access to organic food, and his #1 business mission became to mainstream an organic diet?
Is a not-for-profit the best way to achieve this goal? Or does his current for-profit strategy achieve this better?
I really don't know. Maybe the cheaper pricing a not-for-profit could offer also means they wouldn't be able to expand nearly as quickly? Maybe Whole Foods needed to be a for-profit to become what it is, and now, it could consider becoming a not-for-profit?
Either way, the optimist in me thinks that not-for-profit retail is going to be the future.
Clothing. Grocers. Organizations with a desire for individuals to have better, healthier lives.
Wouldn't you feel better shopping at one?
Help me think it through. And join our All Opinions Are Not Equal Facebook page. I think it might make conversations easier. I'll explain more soon.
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What if CEO John Mackey had a personal belief that the world should have ever-increasing access to organic food, and his #1 business mission became to mainstream an organic diet?
Is a not-for-profit the best way to achieve this goal? Or does his current for-profit strategy achieve this better?
I really don't know. Maybe the cheaper pricing a not-for-profit could offer also means they wouldn't be able to expand nearly as quickly? Maybe Whole Foods needed to be a for-profit to become what it is, and now, it could consider becoming a not-for-profit?
Either way, the optimist in me thinks that not-for-profit retail is going to be the future.
Clothing. Grocers. Organizations with a desire for individuals to have better, healthier lives.
Wouldn't you feel better shopping at one?
Help me think it through. And join our All Opinions Are Not Equal Facebook page. I think it might make conversations easier. I'll explain more soon.