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Porter's Applicability to Retail's Information Technology

of operation of the organization. Thus it "is in these activities that a firm has the opportunity to generate superior valu...

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...

Sustainability Strategy at Wal-Mart

the companys own bottom line. For example, a short-term goal in logistics has been the target to obtain a 25% increase in fuel eff...

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...

Porter's 5 Forces Analysis & Value Chain - Retail Industry

companies. 3. Substitutes Products. Is it possible for a substitute product to capture the market? While it is always possible tha...

An Overview of Wal-Mart

This 5 page paper gives an overview of Wal-Mart Corporation as it is today, as well as discussing plans for future expansion. The ...

Employee Empowerment and Wal Mart

In five pages this paper discusses the employee empowerment objectives espoused by Wal Mart. Five sources are cited in the biblio...

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...

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...

Kmart and Retail Competition

In fifteen pages this paper discusses that despite the formidable competition from Target and Wal Mart Kmart has managed to improv...

Toys 'R' Us' Marketing Techniques

the companys business."8 Plans included: a major redesign for the existing toy stores; buying the companys largest competitor in...

Industry Analysis of the Supply Chain and Technology

any company the way it has grown to the current size and position is one that can be seen as a combination of purposeful strategy ...

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, ...

Relevance of Business Strategy

Porters Five Forces emerged from Porters analysis of this realization. Competition "in an industry comes not simply from direct c...

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 ...

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...

Wal Mart Retail Industry Analysis

propensity, and wisdom of individuals associated with a firm, while organizational resources include the history, relationships, t...

Supermarket Industry of the UK and the Asda Acquisition by Wal Mart

In ten pages this dissertation sample considers the United Kingdom's supermarket industry and the impact of the Asda purchase by t...

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...

The Evolution of Wal-Mart

This 8 page paper discusses the way in which Sam Walton led Wal-Mart from humble beginnings to the largest retailer in the world. ...

A Case Study of Wal-Mart

This 5 page paper discusses the background of Wal-Mart Corporation and then considers its performance. The writer provides a SWOT ...

International Corporate Social Responsibility

In ten pages global corporate responsibility is examined in terms of various cultural perspectives with the actions and positions ...

Wal Mart as a Multinational Corporation

In nine pages this paper presents a global overview of the retailer Wal Mart in a consideration of its involvement in the communit...

3 Major Retailers Analyzed

In sixteen pages Wal Mart, KMart, and Sears are analyzed in terms of their history, financial tactics, competition, and performanc...

A Wal Mart Evaluation

have been petitions against Wal-Mart opening in certain regions due to the competition factor. Few small retail stores can compete...

Place of UK Loyalty Cards

grocery chains in the US avoid the use of such loyalty programs. In the United Kingdom, most of the leading grocery chains have a...

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...

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...