Team C

Foodmart Inc, Paper

Sylmar Alvarado

Demetrius McLaurin

Tenesha Owens

Alice Torres

Keri Walker

Bus/415

January 26, 2012

Malea Drew

Foodmart Inc, Paper

Foodmart, Inc. is a retail grocery store chain based in Any State; U.S.A. Foodmart has stores throughout the United States. Brian McDonald works as the produce manager for the store in My Town, U.S.A. Jeremy Atwater, 17 years old, is spending his summer vacation working for Brian in the produce department. Below are four scenario’s Team C have been assigned to play out each scenario as if they were real circumstances and how we would handle that situation.

Scenario One

Masterpiece Construction signed a contract with Foodmart, offering to reconstruct or renovate Foodmart stores. Unfortunately, Masterpiece Construction was not able to meet the expected renovations to be done, because of the many additions to the contracts that they have and may no longer be covered in their schedule. With that, masterpiece construction decided to have a subcontract for the job, and passed the remaining tasks to the Build Them to Fall Construction, without any permission from Foodmart. For Team C, the Masterpiece Construction just committed a breach of contract. This happens when a company creates a subcontract with another company, which is exactly what happened in this case. To make matters worse, Foodmart only received inferior performance from the new company, which can then be considered as material breach of contract. Another violation committed in this case is the implied warranty and other conditions that both companies agreed to. Basically, the case will be forwarded to the court, but the obvious consequence would be for the Masterpiece Construction to finish what they have already started. But in case the Masterpiece Construction refuses to do so, Foodmart is already free to choose any construction company they want to finish the renovations, and they may charge Masterpiece Construction a fine that will...