Senior year is coming to an end, but BlendZ will continue to flourish. Long live BlendZ. As we have discussed with the younger IA class, it will be in their hands to take care of BlendZ and innovate upon the unique smoothie business. They will have complete autonomy over the company once we seniors graduate. However as we still have a couple more months serving the company, we need to keep working hard to leave everything in one piece. Therefore this week everyone has been working incredibly hard to finish their goals for the company by the end of the semester. Wether it is for us to get the cart we have all dreamed of having on campus or even getting ready to launch our socially responsible part of the company: Habla Roosevelt. The company is moving, on wheels and quickly to reach their goals. Moreover this week I have focused my time on trying to contact our hat and T-shirt suppliers once again. The reason for this is to begin refilling our uniform inventory since now we will be having more volunteers. Even so, I have been trying to brainstorm a type of merchandise that would be perfect for BlendZ to market themselves with and at the same time satisfy our customers. At first I though that maybe selling a BlendZ hat or T-shirt would be ideal, but then I came to the realization that it is our uniform and it represents us the employees. In that case, after brainstorming several ideas I went from BlendZ socks to a BlendZ Tumbler cup. For those of you who may not be aware of what a tumbler cup is, it is basically a reusable plastic cup. Take a look at a rough idea of what I am talking about: The concept behind this reusable cup is that it will help against a trash problem that BlendZ is causing at our school. Not only will it help our school trash problem, but it will also provide a discount upon a following BlendZ purchase, if and only if the cup is reused to buy a smoothie. More research however had to be taken into account when looking at this idea. As I researched upon viewing several website, I noticed that the pricing for one is around s/. 30 to s/. 40 and in dollars around 7 to 15 $. One example is in Starbucks they cost 10 $ while at BlendZ we would be selling them at around s/. 20. Of course we would not only be gaining a profit since we would be purchasing them from a reliable source at 5.60 $ but we would also be marketing and satisfying our customers. Keep in mind that the profit we gain goes to our socially responsible organization of Habla Roosevelt. Therefore this purchase would be a great investment, however I did need to ask my self a very important question. Without any assumptions, would our customers be willing to purchase this cup. Check out the the results surveyed from our sale on Thursday. Please comment below any opinions or any ideas/concerns for BlendZ merchandise. Thank you :)
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Corey Topf
3/15/2015 04:54:33 am
Stangl! To save on trash and especially on plastic, this is a great idea. In fact, I had a teacher ask me abou this the other day, so the sooner we can get this rolling the better! Have you found any suppliers in Lima that can make these?
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