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Farmfoods is the name of a supermarket chain in the United Kingdom. Farmfoods specialise in frozen food and also gain sales through a range of grocery items, including soft drinks, confectionary and more recently, fresh fruit and vegetables. Image File history File links Farmfoods_Logo. ... Image File history File links Farmfoods_Logo. ... Exterior of a typical British supermarket (a Tesco Extra) Exterior of typical North American supermarket (a Safeway) This Flagship Randalls store in Houston, Texas is an example of an upscale supermarket. ... Frozen food is food preserved by the process of freezing. ...

History

Farmfoods is one of the most successful privately-owned businesses in the United Kingdom and has traded profitably for nearly 50 years.

From its roots as an Aberdeen-based meat manufacturing business, Farmfoods began to freeze products to enable a wider geographical distribution to catering outlets. Steadily, products were dispatched further afield, to major Scottish cities like Glasgow and Edinburgh and with growth, further lines such as McCain chips were introduced. , Aberdeen (IPA: ; Scottish Gaelic: ) is Scotlands third largest city with an official population of 202,370. ... “Glaswegian” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Edinburgh (disambiguation). ... McCain is an Hiberno-Scottish or Irish surname, and may refer to: // McCain Foods Limited Edwin McCain, American guitarist George W. McCain, AmericanFirst African-American Fire Chief, Greenwood, Mississippi The McCain family. ...

By 1975 the entire business had changed and focused on retail rather than wholesale supply. An experimental freezer centre was set up in Aberdeen and was very successful. A further 10 freezer centres were introduced and the modern Farmfoods was formed. Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A freezer centre is the name given to a shop specialising in the sale of frozen food. ...

Acquisitions

Farmfoods operated 31 stores in 1988 and gained initial entry into England through the acquisition of 18 stores from Wallis Frozen Foods.

In the early 1990s, Farmfoods expanded further with the acquisition of Capital Freezer Centres.

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Farmfoods stores are typically located in city and town centres, often in shopping centres. However, recently Farmfoods have started to focus on opening stores near the edge of towns, where they have their own car park and are able to open for longer periods. City Centre is a Local Government ward in the City of Manchester. ... For the traditional meaning of the word mall, see mall. ...

Store format and trading style

Generally, stores are in the form of aisles with waist-height Novum freezer cabinets running along each side and shelving above most freezers. Popular items, such as soft drinks and canned foods are often placed in the middle of aisles atop plastic plinths to protect goods from damage. In architecture, a plinth is the lower mouldings of a podium, pedestal or skirting, or a block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or vase is based. ...

There are many exceptions to this generalisation. Some stores have sections with full hight shelving. These house groups of products such as pet food or the ever-growing selection of Toiletry/Household items. In the past the design of each shop had been tailored to the general layout of the store. Since many of the older stores were not built to be freezer centres they are often too small and awkwardly shaped making them hard to traverse. Recently the company has developed a standard wheelchair friendly layout which all the new and much larger stores, such as Cumbernauld, Cambuslang and Coatbridge, all conform to.

In 2005 Farmfoods changed the maximum height of shelving in all of its stores. This was a reaction to a number of staff related accidents related to staff either falling off cabinets or falling through the glass lids while attempting to stock the high shelves. At around this time a poster was placed on all staff notice boards highlighting the dangers of standing on freezer lids and stating this practice was strictly forbidden. ^{[citation needed]}

Smaller stores tend to have only two or three checkouts with space for a customer to place a basket onto the checkout for the casher to access as they scan each item. The company is currently installing conveyor belt driven checkout areas in larger stores.^{[citation needed]} These provide considerably more space to place scanned items and allow the checkout experience to be more streamlined for customers with trolleys as they are not required to lift shopping to the checkout as they are served. All new stores opened by the company have these new checkouts. ^{[citation needed]} Wikipedia encoded in Code 128 Wikipedia encoded in Code 93 Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia encoded in the DataMatrix 2D barcode For the taxonomic method, see DNA barcoding. ...

Farmfoods stores typically have a small staff base and a large number of regular shoppers. The company caters to a wide variety of customers, especially pensioners and families with young children. Items are individually priced, and most have a multi-buy price (for example, 30p or four for £1).

Grocery Items

Although the company initially and still focuses on providing top quality frozen food it has developed a large range of grocery items in recent years. The grocery range originally consisted of only Farmfoods branded items but recently there has been shifts toward selling items from well know brands such as H. J. Heinz Company and Princes with most of the own branded items being discontinued. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Litigation

In March 2007 Farmfoods was fined more than £23,000 after being found guilty of selling food that was unfit for human consumption. This was a result of a mice infestation at its Kirkby store and led to a company wide initiative to deep clean all the stores especially behind cabinets and in back shop areas.^[1]

Mission statement and training

All staff are required to learn the company's mission statement and be able to recite it on command.

"Farmfoods, Britain's Frozen Food Specialists, sell top quality frozen foods and groceries at fantastic prices, in clean and tidy stores where the customer is the VIP, and the personal service is VERY SMILEY!"

Front cover of the staff training pack

This is printed on the front cover of each of the sections of the 'Know about Farmfoods' staff-training program, which new members of staff must complete within a few months of starting, to receive a ‘Know about Farmfoods’ certificate recognising their training.^[2] The program covers a number of areas including health and safety, stocktaking, hygiene, tills, customer service and security. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 480 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 1280 pixel, file size: 151 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The front cover of the Know about farmfoods staff training pack. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 480 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 1280 pixel, file size: 151 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The front cover of the Know about farmfoods staff training pack. ...

References

1. ^ "Mice infestation costs Farmfoods store more than £23,000", Knowsley Online. Article dated 2007-03-09, retrieved 2007-03-26.
2. ^ Know about Farmfoods! Staff training programme. Publication: March 2007

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External links

• Farmfoods website
• Farmfoods Staff Forum

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