Commerce Case Study: Woolworth's Trade of Old and Expired Supermarket Food Products

Running head: COMMERCE CASE STUDY
COMMERCE CASE STUDY
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1COMMERCE CASE STUDY
Commerce is a vital part of any business as it attempts to accomplish human needs and
requirements. It also aims to contribute in linking producers of specific products and services
with consumers who require them. Since commerce necessitates a substantial amount of
processes to be completed, it easily produces various employment prospects in other areas of
business such as retail, banking, transport and logistics (Alsaad, Mohamad & Ismail, 2017). Thus
commerce overall is identified as an imperative component of national growth and wealth
creation. In order to comprehensively understand this subject, the following paper will present a
case-based study for Commerce students about Woolworth’s trade of Old and Expired
Supermarket Food Products’ in order to critically explore the importance and role of any
business.
According to the assigned case study project, Commerce students will have to go through
comprehensive fictional case study regarding Organizational Canteen of renowned retail
organization in Australia. The case study lesson will primarily comprise of a series of lessons
and activities. Each lesson of the case based study on Woolworth’s Trade of Expired Food
Products’ which will contain important activities inside and outside the school. Furthermore, an
inclusive range of resources with original case study examples regarding the previously dated
products are provided to students in order to aid them with successful completion of the
assignment. On the other hand, each lesson of the case-based study will facilitate the Commerce
students to get hold internet resources, journals, charts in order to accomplish the allocated
assignments.

2COMMERCE CASE STUDY
The series of lessons are assigned as per the syllabus of Commerce student
Class: Commerce Time: 90 minutes per class session
Key Learning Area: Economics & Business Lesson Topic: 1.1 Consumer Choice
Key Terms and Concepts: Students will obtain strategies to identify, evaluate and learn options
which result to consumer purchase decisions.
Syllabus Outcome(s):
1.1 related to consumer, economic,
commerce, legal and service
concepts along with concepts
associated with varied contexts.
1.2 critically analyse the privileges
and responsibilities of individuals
in a series of purchaser, financial,
commerce, legal as well as
employment situations.
1.3 Evaluation of varied
commercial as well as legal
information by means of variety
of sources
Learning Outcomes
With the conclusion of this case-
based study students will be able
to identify commercial and legal
decisions on the quality of
consumer lives and the
environment. Furthermore, by
the end of students will be able
to explain the factors influencing
consumer decisions and choices.
Assessment:
Consumer decisions:
 buying decisions
 store location and source
 finance, product price,
product manufacturing
date, promotion,
expediency

3COMMERCE CASE STUDY
Lesson One: Consumer Preference
Lesson Material Duration Teaching Strategies / Learning
Experiences
Learning
Materials
INTRODUCTION
Attendance Call 5 mins settle the class
Westfields Sports
High School Video
15 min Analysing the video
(Woolworths ordered
to compensate $3 million penalty for selling
unsafe or expired food products)
https://
www.smh.co
m.au/
business/
companies/
why-retail-
companies-
are-
struggling-
there-are-
fewer-
DEVELOPMENT
Read 1.1 Consumer
and Choice Chapter
25 min Thorough reading of Commerce and
Consumer choice materials
Textbook
Chapter 1.1 35 min Introduce the chapter, discuss main terms and
concepts, theories
Textbook
Unscramble words 10 min Get introduced to new terminologies from the
chapter
Worksheet
CLOSURE
Homework 10 min Assign Homework; aid the students how to
search case studies online
Enable students to make a note of key ideas
from the subject; answer questions if there is
any.
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