Suppose that you are the district manager in the Ontario region for Sobeys Inc. (“Sobeys”). Traditionally, Ontario is the company’s most successful region in Canada in terms of sales revenue and number of grocery locations. However, competition has been extremely tough the past fiscal year as Walmart Canada has aggressively expanded in Ontario with grocery-only locations and took market share away from traditional grocers such as Sobeys and Metro. Sales revenue has dropped and is projected to continually drop in the next 2 fiscal years. Sobeys cannot continue to keep the number of locations in Ontario due to falling revenues and rising expenses. Senior management has directed you to close 25% of the locations. Most of these locations will be in Greater Toronto Area.  Sobeys’ President wants you to come up with a transition strategy to manage the Ontario downsize. The strategy should address the challenges you may foresee with this transition (i.e., employment, management, marketing, operations, leadership, etc.).

Provide me with a transition strategy plan with the following headings: 

1. Executive Summary (Short summary what you are trying to accomplish. Hint: Even though this is the Introduction, include highlights of items in your action plan, desired outcome, etc.). 
2. Identify Challenges (List all issues and challenges you anticipate encountering).
3. Action Plan/Solution (Develop a strategy that will fulfill your mission and, to address the challenges you have identified). 
4. Expected Outcome (Your expected outcome should not be just qualitative. Make some quantitative assumptions as well)