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History, Status, and Outlook of the Discount Retailing Industry

In seventeen pages this paper discusses the discount retail industry in terms of history, present status, future, outlook, and man...

The Retailer of the Century: Wal-Mart

undermine a great deal of what Sam Walton had hoped to create with his original stores with "down home" feeling. Wal-Mart Weakness...

Sam Walton Made in America, My Story Reviewed

annual sales of over $44 billion coming from the sales to over 40 million shoppers in over 1,750 stores (Economist, 1992). Before ...

Defending Wal-Mart

spend - are on the job. These stores with limited hours open after working people get to work and close before they get off for t...

Self Made Man Ideology

It was his lecture "Acres of Diamonds" that brought him to riches, though (Center for History and New Media, 2002). He was on a na...

Retail and the Significance of Managing Space

way as to appear almost odd, or too eclectic, the stores do make efficient use of space. They manage to get a wide variety of prod...

Corporations and Self Limiting of Size

after his death would become the worlds largest retailer. In principle and on paper at least, Wal-Mart still operates on th...

State of the Discount Retail Industry

advantage, though smaller discounters such as Dollar General have benefitted too. Though Kmart recently filed for bankruptc...

Compensation of Employees at Wal Mart

its management practices but nonetheless, it is a fundamental principle of the owners. 2. Service to customers (Wal-Mart, 2002). T...

Business and Data Mining

that have already occurred (Nash, 1998). The purpose can be to determine which websites generate the most traffic and where that ...

German Expansion Efforts of Wal Mart

In forty pages the problematic expansion of Wal Mart into the German market is examined in an overview of background, strategies, ...

Retail and Health Care Approaches to Management Information Systems (MIS)

This paper examines the ways in which retailers such as Wal-Mart and health care services providers such as Columbia HCA utilize I...

Software Project Management Issues

than any other commercial data warehouse, and perhaps second only to the Pentagons, according to industry experts" (Holstein, Sied...

Capital Budgeting at Wal-Mart and Target

there is the need to maximise the use of the resources. These will include capital that is available and also borrowing facilities...

Corporate Initiatives of the Twenty-First Century

consideration nutritional guidelines but the firm also takes education into account (Elan, 2006). They strive to provide variety ...

Wal Mart and Its Electronic and Print Marketing

the new 30. Hence, marketers are jumping on that bandwagon as they realize that those in that age bracket have money to spend. Cun...

Is Investing In The Stock Market A Good Idea When There Are Turbulent Conditions?

be better alterative investments for short term returns. Figure 1 S&P 500 1 Year performance (Yahoo Finance, 2009) There are st...

On the Cutting Edge of Logistics

shipping and it was called a "colossal" change (DSC, 2007). As the author of this article said, this remix of vendor shipping prog...

Influences on Planning at Wal-Mart

of the world which would otherwise not be available, but with increased pressure from environmental factors this may also change i...

Predatory Pricing

companys marginal cost (ICT Regulation Toolkit, 2009). But, the short term marginal cost is very hard to measure. Because of this ...

DUKE V. WAL-MART INC: CLASS-ACTION QUESTION

women employed at any Wal-Mart retail store in any capacity since late 1998, who might have been subjected to Wal-Marts "challenge...

WAL-MART, GLOBALIZATION AND IMPACT ON MANAGEMENT'S FOUR FACTORS

it into management concepts today, to determine values on the true market value/cost of an item, as well as risk associated with t...

Wal-Mart Problems and Challenges

solution. Financial In financial terms the company appears to be strong, they have increasing revenues, even during a recession...

Spend Less, Live Better - Marketing at Wal-Mart

in small and large ways that can enrich life, from showing a family going on holiday with the money saved to a woman buying ice cr...

ANALYZING THE RETAIL ENVIRONMENT: WAL-MART

formats including supercenters, discount stores and neighborhood food markets (Datamonitor, 2008). At last count, the company had ...

Diffusion Of Innovation And Wal-Mart

Their purposes are to "ensure hiring, training and performance practices and policies are implemented correctly" (Millerwood Commu...

Should Wal-Mart Extend Insurance Benefits To Same-Sex Partnerships; An Ethical Discussion

a to increase the level of healthcare that can be received and benefit both partners you may have been going without insurance, or...

PetSmart Finance

(2007) report that Americans spend $41 billion a year on their pets, a figure expected to increase to $52 billion in two years. M...

Wal-Mart Database

queried in a number of ways in order to provide information for different purposes. The system is into links with Wal-Mart own dat...

Suggestions for Wal-Mart

through to more human relations school processes, metrics that may be used to measure this may include scores in employee satisfac...