EOC Practice "Supermarkets"

EOC Practice
"The Surprising Way a Supermarket Change the World"

Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of contention as it is used in paragraph 7?

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• awareness

• adjustment

• disadvantage

• disagreement

Multiple Choice

What does the word groundbreaking mean as it is used in paragraph 1?

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• discarded

• convenient

• new or unique

• effective and helpful

Multiple Choice

Which conclusion about the impacts of technology on supermarkets is supported by the passage?

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• Technology helped grocery stores expand beyond retail stores offering specialized products, but supermarkets have now grown too large to be competitive.

• Technology allowed supermarkets to customize advertisements to consumers, but history suggest that consumers pay little attention to advertisements.

• Technology made shopping more efficient for many consumers, but it may eventually make in-store marketing strategies obsolete.

• Technology brought more consumers to supermarkets over time, but the changing economy will make its use increasingly impractical.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence best describes the relationship between the ideas in paragraphs 10 and 11?

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• Paragraph 10 relates a historical anecdote about supermarkets, and the impact of this even is explained in paragraph 11.

• Paragraph 10 presents an advantage of a supermarket strategy, and a possible disadvantage is noted in paragraph 11.

• Paragraph 11 explains why supermarkets focused on branding efforts, which are introduced in paragraph 10.

• Paragraph 11 describes how supermarkets engaged a certain audience, which is introduced in paragraph 10.

Multiple Choice

Which statement best describes how the author develops a central idea in the passage?

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• By presenting the opinions of an expert, the author shows that one supermarket attracted more customers than others did.

• By comparing old-style grocery stores and supermarkets, the author shows that each appealed to customers in different ways.

• By examining problems and solutions, the author shows that supermarkets successfully overcame big challenges.

• By highlighting developments over time, the author shows that supermarkets succeeded in the grocery industry.

Multiple Choice

Based on the passage, which statement best describes the relationship between supermarkets and product advertising?

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• Instore product advertising in stores originated when consumers started selecting for themselves which items they would purchase.

• Instore product advertising in stores began when parents started being influence by the desires of their children.

• Instore product advertising is the reason many consumers prefer to order their grocery items electronically today.

• Instore product advertising is responsible for the shift away from the grocery store model of the early twentieth century.

Multiple Choice

Which detail from the passage best illustrates the relationship from the previous question?

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• "pioneered a self-service model that was drastically different from the way things had long been done" (paragraph 2).

• "consumers could make decisions as to what it was they wanted to buy, and that really led to companies trying to catch consumers' attention" (paragraph 3)

• "drastically changed the game of branding, with designers able to place food at kids' eye levels" (paragraph 11)

• "it changed the game outside, too, with online grocery shopping escalating in popularity" (paragraph 13).

Multiple Select

Which TWO conclusions are best supported by the passage?

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• Clarence Saunders and King Kullen were rivals who raced to see who could open the first supermarket.

• The supermarket model expanded far beyond the first Piggly Wiggly founded by Clarence Saunders.

• Queen Elizabeth helped spread the supermarket model on an international level through her 1957 visit.

• The success of Piggly Wiggly supermarket was due to the interest that its mysterious name created.

• Self-service supermarkets like Piggly Wiggly were more profitable than the small grocery stores they replaced.

Multiple Choice

Based on the passage, which statement best explains the strategy that supermarkets adopted in order to increase sales?

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• Supermarkets lowered prices on goods so that shoppers would benefit financially.

• Supermarkets labeled items with prices since shoppers were choosing from a large variety.

• Supermarkets employed more workers to help shoppers find the products that they had come to buy.

• Supermarkets used marketing strategies to entice shoppers to make unplanned purchases.

Multiple Select

Select TWO pieces of evidence from the passage that best support the answer to the previous question.

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• "Saunders redesigned food shopping, methodically arranging things in order to appeal to how customers shopped-for example, putting candy and other impulse items at the checkout" (paragraph 4).

• "In addition to launching the self-service model, Piggly Wiggly introduced shopping baskets, price-marked items, employees in uniform and the supermarket franchise model" (paragraph 4)

• "and then you had these bigger stores that said, let's reduce the cost and make it more affordable" (paragraph 5).

• "For supermarkets, losing one or two people didn't put the chains our of business" (paragraph 8).

• "from early 20th century signs to electronic systems that individually identify shoppers in the store in order to advertise to them personally" (parapgrah 12).