of an off-price retailer? Individual Work (35 points) The following assignment allows you to analyze the Mall of America. You will have the opportunity to develop strategies designed to assist the Mall of America in acquiring new customers. Please read the "Mall of America Shopping and a Whole Lot More" case study (pages 313-315). After reading the case‚ please answer the following questions: 1. Why has the Mall of America been such a marketing success so far? 2. What specific
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Federal Express – delivering the goods Kevan Scholes This case study looks at how new business models can create vast improvements in competitiveness. However‚ the models must be suited to the business environment at the time and will have a ‘shelf-life’ as the business environment changes. The case study looks at one on the world’s most successful adopters of a new business model that transformed the airfreight and package delivery sectors worldwide. But the advent of the internet in the mid-1990s
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meal. 1. Explain how adjusting the customer service level could improve a marketing mix. Illustrate. Basically the marketing mix is the 4 P’s‚ place‚ price‚ production (product) and promotion but without customer service or the customer‚ focusing on those 4 P’s is pointless. Knowing the needs and wants of your consumers‚ is something you need before you can start on the process of evaluating and determining your marketing mix. Adjusting the customer service level could help you figure out your
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ice Alyssa Corral Customer Service Bruce Fey Page 282 Review Questions What are some innate qualities or characteristics that make people unique? Innate qualities are qualities and characteristics that one is born with and has within them. Some innate qualities that make people unique are race‚ ethnicity‚ gender‚ height‚ natural hair color‚ and birth order. What external or societal factors affect the way members of a group are seen or perceived? Some external factors that affect
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many positive and negative customer service experiences. Customer service (ch.1 pg. 6) can be defined as “The ability of knowledgeable‚ capable‚ and enthusiastic employees to deliver products and services to their internal and external customers in a matter that satisfies identified and unidentified needs.” In other words‚ it is the ability of a company and its employees to supply their customers’ wants and needs. Some organizations have well developed customer services departments‚ while other are
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Master of Business Administration-MBA Semester 4 MK0006 – Services Marketing and Customer Relationship Management - 2 Credits (Book ID: xxxxxxx) Assignment Set- 1 (30 Marks) Note: Each question carries 10 Marks. Answer all the questions. Q.1 a. What do you mean by physical evidence in services? Give examples. (5 marks) b. Write a note on service development. (5 marks) Q.2 a. Briefly explain the terms “customer expectation” and “customer perception”. (6 marks) b. What are the different bases for
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Starbucks started in 1971 and by creating a cozy third place to customers beyond home and work and offering a slightly higher price yet fine quality coffee‚ within 25 years‚ it had opened just over 1000 stores. In order to maintain its leadership position‚ Starbucks had continued pursuing growth opportunities by selling Starbucks products through mass distribution channels and expanding its retail footprint. Along with the rapid expansion and success‚ Starbucks has encountered financial downturn
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Customer Service For the Mystery Shopping assignment‚ I have decided to observe the customer service provided by Sport Chek located at Erin Mills Town Center‚ Mississauga. I’ve entered the store as a customer looking to buy boxing wraps for his next boxing training‚ at the time of my entry there was a medium number of customers‚ and the customer movement at the store can be described as normal. Also there was a good number of sales associates helping out customers and walking through
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Solution to Improve Customer Service‚ 12 May 2013/4/3 Report for: Directors of House & Home Introduction This report delivers messages about the shortcoming of customer service and we have three feasible options to improve service: Recruit more staff for each store. Improve staff training. Offer higher pay to sales staff. Now we are facing some powerful competitors whose sales are offering better service than ours. Recruit more staff for each store. Our stores is obviously unstaffed
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CUSTOMER SERVICE AT THE MARIGOLD HOTEL1 One bright summer morning in March 2010‚ owner and General Manager George Chacko was in his comfortable second-floor office suite at the Marigold Hotel in the Chanakyapuri area of New Delhi. He had been alerted to a brewing customer service problem‚ and wanted to resolve the issue before it got out of hand. Chacko belonged to a family of real estate developers and entrepreneurs. Over the turn of the century‚ he had noticed that New Delhi lacked sufficient high-quality
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