Customers are gaga for Wawa, the restaurant / convenience store / gas station that inspires people to tattoo the firm's logo. Founded in 1803, Wawa morphed over time from an iron foundry to a textile mill, to a dairy farm, dairy delivery business, grocery store, then convenience store. Dark clouds descended with the 2008 financial crisis.

PopChef is a start-up foodtech business in the lunchtime food delivery market in Paris. The case centres on the period from launch in 2015 to 2017. PopChef is the first to enter the market with a new business model in France. As other well-funded domestic and international entrants arrive, the market becomes highly competitive market.

The case entitled ‘Crafting Winning Strategies in a Mature Market: The US Wine Industry in 2001’ examines the competitive environment of the US wine industry in 2001, prior to [yellow tail]’s launch. The case demonstrates how the industry was overcrowded, highly competitive, and increasingly squeezed at the distribution and retail stages of the supply chain.

The case charts the past decade of online grocery retailing at Tesco.com and the development and launch of the non-food operation “Tesco Direct”. Tesco implemented a unique fulfillment model by using its vast network of bricks-and-mortar supermarkets across the UK to pick the items ordered by online customers.

The case analyses the failed introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMO) in Europe by Monsanto. Showing how a favourable context (the legacy of mad-cow disease) made it relatively easy for consumer groups and environmentalists to wage successful anti-GMO campaigns in Europe, the case examines how Monsanto attempted to deal with its image problem and how the company's efforts backfired.

The (A) case describes the situation of Cadbury Schweppes and its sugar confectionary business, in a state of “satisfactory underperformance” in which past strategies and practices make it hard for new management to initiate change in this widely respected company.