Question

What is super market and its advantages and disadvantsges?

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

- Advantages of Supermarket. Saving in labour cost due to self-service system. Due to adequate parking space, shopping becomes easy and pleasing activity rather than boredom. High degree of efficiency due to elimination of service.

Answer 2

Answer:

Advantages of Super Market:

(1) It offers large variety of goods to the customers at one place which leads to large turnover.

2) Cost of operation and selling overheads are lesser.

(3) It enjoys the economies of large scale operation.

(4) The customer is benefited on account to lesser prices and the owner gets higher profits due to large turnover.

(5) There is considerable saving in shopping time on the part of customer as all requirements are available at one place.

(6) A customer makes the free choice of his requirements without any strain on the mind of the salesmen.

(7) There are no bad debts as the business is carried On Cash basis.

(8) In super market, the goods are sold on fixed price. Thus, there is no problem of bargaining.

(9) It is situated at the central place of the city which attracts many customers.

Disadvantages of Super Market:

(1) It is one of the large scale retail organisation and requires huge capital to carry its business.

(2) In big and overcrowded cities, it is very difficult to find spacious premises in important markets at economical rates. On account of this reason, a super market is usually situated at a faraway place from the residential localities, which is inconvenient for the purchasers.

(3) Articles which require the service of salesmen and experts for the demonstration to be given to the purchasers cannot be covered by this market.

4) As the food and grocery items are usually dealt in a super market, they deteriorate very soon on account of their perishable nature. These items cannot be stored for a longer time.

(5) Sometimes customers make careless handling and misuse of the products while selecting their requirements. This leads to losses to be suffered by super market.