Simulated workplaceCAQA Marketplace Retail Group is a fictional business created by CAQA for training and assessment. It is not a real company and no person, client or record here is real.About this simulation
SIRCAQA MarketplaceSimulated workplace
Today at Marketplace
164 staff
  • Stock and Inventory Register8
  • Customer Feedback and Complaints Register8
  • WHS and Security Incident Register8
  • Online Orders and Deliveries8
Simulated workplace
Supermarket, fashion, pharmacy retail and online store

Service with a smile

CAQA Marketplace Retail Group is an independent multi-format retailer serving Melbourne's south-east.

Founded 2001164 staff across four sites and an online storeHead office and online fulfilment centre, Dandenong South, VictoriaMarketplace Fresh supermarket, Frankston, Victoria
164
Staff
across four sites and the fulfilment centre
4
Formats
supermarket, fashion, pharmacy and online
25
Years operating
founded 2001
38,000
Transactions
in store each week plus 2,400 online orders
Who we are

CAQA Marketplace Retail Group, supermarket, fashion, pharmacy retail and online store

CAQA Marketplace Retail Group is an independent multi-format retailer serving Melbourne's south-east. It runs a full-line supermarket with fresh produce, deli, bakery and butchery departments, a fashion store selling women's, men's and children's apparel and footwear, a community pharmacy with a dispensary and health services, and an online store that offers click and collect and home delivery across all three formats. Marketplace competes with the national chains on service, local product ranges and community connection, and serves around 38,000 customer transactions a week in store and about 2,400 online orders.

The group is organised into six departments: supermarket operations, the fashion store, the community pharmacy, online store and fulfilment, merchandise, buying and visual merchandising, and people, safety and loss prevention. The supermarket trades from 7 am to 10 pm seven days, with a night fill crew from 9 pm, the fashion store trades centre hours including late nights, and the pharmacy is open 8 am to 8 pm with a delivery run each afternoon. The fulfilment centre at Dandenong South picks and packs online orders in two shifts and dispatches through its own drivers and a courier partner. Head office holds buying, marketing, finance and people functions.

Customer first

Every decision starts with what the customer needs, whether they are at the deli counter, the fitting room, the dispensary or the checkout on their phone.

Know the product

Team members learn the ranges they sell so they can give honest, useful advice and never guess about food, medicines or fit.

Safe and fair

A safe store for customers and staff, fair pay and rosters, and no tolerance for abuse of team members from any direction.

Local and honest

Marketplace backs local growers, makers and causes, prices clearly and fixes mistakes without argument.

What we do

Services and operations

To be the retailer our community trusts, by knowing our products, respecting our customers and looking after the people who serve them.

Full-line supermarket

Grocery, fresh produce, deli, bakery, butchery, dairy and frozen ranges with a strong local supplier program, weekly catalogue specials and a loyalty program that runs across every Marketplace format.

Fashion and footwear

Women's, men's and children's apparel, footwear and accessories across everyday and occasion ranges, with fitting room service, alterations referral and seasonal visual merchandising that changes every six weeks.

Community pharmacy and dispensary

Prescription dispensing, dose administration aids, pharmacy medicines and pharmacist only medicines, blood pressure and blood glucose checks, vaccinations by the pharmacist and an afternoon medicine delivery run.

Online store, click and collect and delivery

One online store across supermarket, fashion and pharmacy front-of-shop ranges, with same-day click and collect, scheduled home delivery windows and a courier option for fashion orders interstate.

Business to business supply

Wholesale grocery, catering and fresh supply to cafes, childcare centres and aged care kitchens in the south-east, with account management, standing orders and a weekly delivery schedule.

Health and wellbeing services

Sleep apnoea support, home health care aids and equipment hire, smoking cessation programs and health promotion campaigns run from the pharmacy in partnership with local general practices.

Clients and partners (all fictional)
Local households in Frankston, Cranbourne and the Chadstone regionOnline shoppers across metropolitan MelbourneCafes and caterers on business to business accounts such as Bayview Kitchen CoChildcare centres and aged care kitchensPatients of local general practices referred for pharmacy servicesCommunity groups and schools supported through the local programLocal households in Frankston, Cranbourne and the Chadstone regionOnline shoppers across metropolitan MelbourneCafes and caterers on business to business accounts such as Bayview Kitchen CoChildcare centres and aged care kitchensPatients of local general practices referred for pharmacy servicesCommunity groups and schools supported through the local program

Notice board All notices

  • Safety Safety cutters replace box cutters on night fill
    4 September 2026
  • Quality Sesame snack bar recall: batch quarantined
    9 September 2026
  • People Respectful customer behaviour: you can walk away
    8 September 2026

Coming up Calendar

  • 13/09Spring range launch weekend, fashion store
    10:00 am, Marketplace Fashion, Chadstone region
  • 15/09Fresh team weekly briefing
    7:30 am, Frankston supermarket staff room
  • 16/09Respectful customer behaviour refresher
    2:00 pm, Cranbourne pharmacy consultation room
  • 18/09Spring window and front feature installation
    6:00 pm, Marketplace Fashion, after close
For trainers and assessors

Mapped to the Retail Services Training Package

Every scenario lists the current units of competency and qualifications it supports, with assessor notes and a printable evidence summary. Use it with your own assessment tools or ask CAQA for a matched kit.

Training packageSIR release 7.0
Qualifications listed12 of 13 current
Units mapped35
Documents14