Developing Sustainable Competitive Advantages 1. Customer Loyalty: Customers must be committed to buying merchandise and services from a particular retailer. This can be accomplished through retail branding‚ positioning‚ and loyalty programs. A loyalty program is like a "Target card. " Now‚ when the customer uses the card as a credit card‚ Target can track all of their transactions and store it in their data warehouse‚ which keeps track of the customer’s needs and wants outside of Target. This
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INTRODUCTION In recent years‚ rural markets of India have acquired significance‚ as the overall growth of the Indian economy has resulted into substantial increase in the purchasing power of the rural communities. On account of green revolution‚ the rural areas are consuming a large quantity of industrial and urban manufactured products. In this context‚ a special marketing strategy‚ namely‚ rural marketing has emerged. But often‚ rural marketing is confused with agricultural marketing – the latter
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"The advantages Technology has given us outweigh the disadvantages." Many argue that as we venture further into the frontier of technology we proceed with a slow death of society‚ by losing culture and ultimately a sense of self. To a certain extent this may be true‚ but realistically if we cease to progress we wont be able to survive. (Robert) There are many examples of advantages and disadvantages some mentioned were " Technology has the ability to create shortcuts in working and can
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This is a loaded question with many potentially right answers. The potential advantages for using a computer depend closely on the intended use. Given a few potential uses‚ here are some of my thoughts: For writing: • Quick entry • Easy to edit and restructure • Many tools to produce various kinds of output (html‚ text‚ books‚ pdf documents‚ etc.) • Storage is inexpensive and doesn’t take up much space • Easy to search/navigate through documents For organization • Many different kinds
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widespread availability‚ a full range of sizes‚ and a price range for any budget there should be no excuse not to own a calculator or restrict the use of calculators. Current issues with calculators have to be dealt with in order to better understand the advantage of this technology‚ which is the intention of this paper. Calculators should be utilized more often not only because current myths block how beneficial calculators really are but also because they create a more efficient student and easily integrated
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(German Navy) prevented a similar fate. Only German aircraft could reach Britain‚ and thus the Battle of Britain commenced (History.com Staff). From the start the British had many advantages‚ such as interior lines (they defended a small area while the Germans were spread out from a large one) and radar‚ but the primary advantage was that this was their home turf: they never lost pilots unless the pilots failed to eject and their fighters required less
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could find many advantages as well as disadvantages.Firstly television has got a versatile Misleading messages may again divert young minds towards a wrong path. Wrong interpretation of news may even blow things out of proportion. This would create further unrest in any place or even violence in case of extreme situations. The children may learn violence by seeing movies and TV programs. They try to act as super heroes they see in the T.V which may cause danger to their life. The children
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Medicare Advantage The article I found is about Medicare Advantage and its main points are basically about how Obama and some democrats think that it is waste of money to have. But not everyone agrees with them. A Medicare Advantage Plan is a type of Medicare health plan offered by a private company that contracts with Medicare to provide you with all your Part A and Part B benefits. Medicare Advantage Plans include Health Maintenance Organizations‚ Preferred Provider
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Corporate Strategy "Sources of competitive advantage rarely yield added value that can be sustained over time." The following essay is going to attempt to assess the above proposition and try to find if it is possible to add value continually over a period of time. I will first discuss what competitive advantage is and what it means to a firm. Then I will explain the sources of competitive advantage and how the distinctive capabilities of a firm allow it to sustain added value. The discussion
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The advantages and disadvantages of money Everybody knows the value of money. Nothing is more powerful than money. In fact‚ if we have no money‚ we cannot buy goods‚ clothes and other necessaries we need. Without money‚ we cannot go to the movies‚ theaters or other amusements places. How can we spend our free time pleasantly on rainy evenings without a color television in front of us? Music from a new hi-fi can relax us quickly after a hard day of work. But how can we satisfy our needs‚
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