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Facts: While shopping at a local grocery store a few months ago, Samantha Smith fell, having slipped on shampoo that was on the floor. Ms. Smith was taken to the hospital where she had to stay overnight and was diagnosed with a broken hip. As a result she will need several months of physical therapy. Ms. Smith has no health insurance and is a single parent to a two year old child. The store claims the aisles are checked at the top of each hour. The day Ms. Smith fell, an elderly gentleman who wears glasses was responsible for the aisle checks. The shampoo on the floor that caused the fall was a gel that is clear in color. The stores logs show that an inspection was performed about 1 pm that day, and Ms. Smith’s fall occurred about 1:30 pm. The store claims Ms. Smith had a duty to avoid the spill but due to being distracted by her son,who0 was misbehaving to do so.…
While floor walking in store 603 on 08/22/16 I AP Associate Vanessa McClary observed an unknown male subject that I once recovered merchandise from in store 635 in the pet aisle of store 603, I started watching this subject because I took notice of the fact that he had trash bags on the top of his carriage, which also had merchandise under it. Due to the fact of me not seeing selection I approached the subject and asked him if I could assist him with anything. The subject replied that he didn't need help. I continue to keep an observation on the subject as he went throughout the store putting merchandise from under the trash bag on the shelves. The subject then proceeded o exit the store via the produce side. Total amount recovered $32.63…
Huang walked past the cash register without paying for the concealed items. Huang decided she was going to pay for the concealed items and walked back into the Macy’s Store. Huang was then contacted inside of the store by Loss Prevention Officer Aranda. Huang was escorted into the loss prevention office with the stolen property. Huang did not provide any additional relevant information regarding the above case. My body worn camera was activated during the investigation and interview of…
On November 6, 1996, Karl Cockrell went to a Walmart store with his parents. As he was leaving the store the loss-prevention officer for Walmart, Raymond Navarro, stopped him and asked him to follow him to the manager’s room. Once at the office the loss-prevention officer conducted a thorough search and even asked Karl Cockrell to take off a surgical bandage that he had on his abdomen. Even after Karl Cockrell’s explanation that the bandage covered a wound, the loss prevention officer still insisted on taking the bandage off. After the search when the officer didn’t find anything he let Karl Cockrell go. Later Karl Cockrell sued Walmart for false imprisonment. The trial court decided the case in favor of Karl Cockrell and awarded an amount of $300,000 for mental anguish. Walmart claimed that it had the “shopkeeper’s privilege” so it can’t be sued and the liability imposed on Walmart by the trial court is not justified. The court of appeals on both questions upheld the decision of the trial court.…
On the above date and time I was conducting traffic enforcement in the area of Richey Drive and Wilkins Street.…
At a first glance of the world's largest company, Wal-Mart, you'd think that its great success would benefit the United States. But is that what is really happening? Actually, it seams to be the complete opposite. Even though Wal-Mart does employ thousands of workers in their some 3400 stores across the Unites States, it creates more job losses and pay-cuts. Because of the job cuts and cheap imports, Wal-Mart is not good for America.…
Jim Sinegal and Jeff Brotman in Seattle Washington founded Costco Wholesale in 1993. Costco merged with Price Club, and doubled their market share in the wholesale industry. They became an immediate leader in the industry.…
July 2nd, 1962 Sam Walton opened the first Walmart in Rogers, Arkansas. Walmart is a name that is commonly known in every household across the United States of America. It’s right around the corner to nearly all Americans and a haven for bargain hunters, so people think. Walmart brings jobs and helps the economy when they move to the area. This is another misconception Walmart wants you to believe. Walmart actually is doing the exact opposite. Sure it creates jobs, poverty level paying jobs with less than forty hours a week and no benefits. People who own and operate their own businesses, who actually stimulate their local economy, are at risk for going bankrupt and losing everything they have. Why would people want to spend money when they can get a similar product at Walmart for half the cost? There’s a simple answer to that question, people don’t want to spend money they don’t have to. Millions of people in the United States are living paycheck to paycheck working minimum wage jobs. These people can’t afford to buy products from a local family run store. The only places they’re able to go and get everything they need is Walmart and other big box businesses who can offer cheap…
Its size, power, and low prices are what make Walmart so helpful to America. So why do some people think that Walmart is so bad for American people? (Found in Walmart Nation packet, which was given in class) Many people believe that this is a true debate. Everyone has his or her own point of view. If you think about it, is Walmart really good for America? Walmart has made many changes since it was first opened in 1962, by Sam Walton. By the end of 2003, there were 2,551 Walmart stores in the U.S. and this is all including supercenters, Sam's Club's and the famous neighboring markets.(Found in Walmart Nation packet, which was given out in class) After going over all the facts, Walmart is good for America.…
My grandmother asked me to go get some fruit from the food and vegetable section. I was short and asked if one of the store employees to help me reach the bananas and apples. A woman was walking by and wasn’t paying attention to where she was going and hit me with her shopping cart. My grandmother heard all the commotion and ran over to me to see if I was ok. The woman who hit me said that I was running around the aisle and hit her. The store employee told my grandmother that the woman wasn’t telling the truth about the incident. The woman demanded to see the store manager. She told the store manager her version of the event and demanded that my grandmother and I be removed from the store. The store manage then heard my and the employee’s…
A social norm is the rules of behavior that are considered acceptable in a group or society. People who go against the social norm may be shunned or looked at as a bad person. For my social norm breaching experiment, I decided to dress up as a hospital patient that had just been released from the hospital and walk around Wal-Mart. My mom is a registered nurse at the Baptist Memorial Hospital, so she was able to get me the materials that I needed to conduct the experiment. I decided to do this at Wal-Mart, because of the people that go in there. However, I didn’t conduct this experiment at the Wal-Mart in my hometown. I knew that less people would catch on to the operation if they didn’t recognize me. There is always a variety of people in every Wal-Mart across America, so I speculated that I would get a lot of responses and/or emotions from several different people that didn’t know me personally. I only…
I love going to Walmart I have lots of fun. I definitely love going with my friends Sammy and Lorelei. When we first get to Walmart me and my friends go look at clothes like back to school clothes and stuff like that. Just this last time we went to Walmart Sammy was changing in the changing room and Lorelei graves Sammy's flip flop from the bottom of the changing room. And Lorelei should me she had it then she grow it back over the top of it and it hit her in the head. Lol! Then after all this happens by now one of us has to us the bathroom so we go by the water fountain and talk till that person is out of the bathroom. Then when we're done talking we go to the bikes and tell each other which one we want we say there for about 15min then we…
In contrast with the Power of Buyers mentioned above, Power of Suppliers refers to the bargaining power or ability to dictate terms of pricing and quantity of goods when dealing with Supermarkets. Since the supermarket industry has become concentrated (reduced in number of companies), mainly by the five companies mentioned above, suppliers are forced to increase output while decreasing prices. This growth of Supermarkets as Buyers has had an adverse effect on the suppliers. Smaller suppliers such as local farms are not able to compete with larger supply companies such as C&S Wholesale Grocers or Smithfield Foods. They have had difficulty coming up with the required output or comply with slotting allowances just to be able to place their product on the shelves. This has unavoidably caused a concentration in the industry for suppliers as well, hurting local economies that mainly depend on agriculture.…
It was the first grocery that got my attention, I wondered how many years they have been here?. I decided to enter the grocery and have a small conversation with the workers, I was in shock when he told me that he has been working in Al Rashidiya for 40 years, and he saw how the region changed. He said that there were no streets in front his grocery and people couldn’t reach his grocery easily, and he was about to lose his grocery, then he decided to build a street with his own money.…
The last thing I saw was the one security guard marching towards the shoplifter, grabbing him by the arms and escorting him upstairs. In the meantime the second security guard noted down my address and contact numbers.…