Executive Summary With only 30% of its sales coming from dollar items‚ Dollar General is competing on a larger scale with more known product brands. Educating the consumer in order to change their perception of dollar stores will increase sales and generate larger average dollars spent by a customer. Increasing advertising about Dollar General’s brand-named products will help educate consumers and change their perceptions. Datamonitor reported consumer’s worry that Wal-Mart threatens local businesses
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Week-1 Assignment CASE STUDY Dollar General: Heavy on Organization‚ Light on Systems Managing Technology for Organizations April 20‚ 2006 Dollar General‚ a family of small‚ neighborhood store delivers with convenience and value on the basics needs of their customer. The store vows to help their customers save time and money just as it competitors Wal-Mart and Dollar Tree. However Dollar General believe that combination helps our customers have a better life‚ and that is important to
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analysis of British clothing retailing industry From Lili Yan B120715 1. Introduction Clothing retailing industry is one of the most competitive industries in UK. Besides traditional clothing retailers‚ supermarkets (such as Tesco) and grocery retailers (such as M&S) also take participate in fighting for market share. Focusing on the general market development first‚ compared
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Higher Diploma in Marketing and Sales Management Year: 1st year (June Examinations) Module: Retailing Assignment May 2012 Group: Matthew Spiteri Gonzi ( ) Chris Pace ( ) Jeremy Tabone ( 314185(M) ) Steve Borg ( ) Lecturer: Marika Fsadni Question: You are a leading marketing consultancy firm in Malta. Your client is interested in opening a chain of 3 retail outlets in Malta‚ engaged in a line of business of your choice. Your client has asked you to conduct a mystery shopping
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Q1: Describe Dollar General’s business strategy. What has the company been so successful? A1: Dollar General’s main business strategy is to focus on being the leading distributors of consumable basics‚ with 30% of the merchandise at $1.00 or less. Dollar General believes in maintaining an assortment of consumable merchandise and making shopping for everyday items hassle free and simplistic. Deriving most of their customer basis from Low‚ Middle and fixed income earners. With under-serviced
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INTRODUCTION According to GM.com (2009) General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM)‚ is one of the world’s largest automakers which was founded in 1908‚ in Detroit USA. It manufactures cars and trucks in 34 countries. GM employs 252‚000 people in every major region of the world‚ and sells and services vehicles in some 140 countries. It sells cars and trucks globally under the following brands: Buick‚ Cadillac‚ Chevrolet‚ GMC‚ GM Daewoo‚ Holden‚ Hummer‚ Opel‚ Pontiac‚ Saab‚ Saturn‚ Vauxhall and Wuling. Its largest
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than national brands. True False Hispanics have significantly different shopping and eating patterns from those of the general population in the United States. True False Subway is a franchise. True False The biggest difference between services and merchandise retailers is their profits. True False Discount stores offer both hard and soft goods for sale. True False Extreme-value retailers have a broad variety but shallow assortment of products offered at very low prices. True False An advantage of
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HOW USEFUL IS THEORY IN EXPLAINING THE GROWTH OF INTERNET RETAILING? Internet Retailing is the most groundbreaking and challenging innovation for the retail industry since the last two decades. It offers a new kind of distribution channel and incomparable options of collecting customer data and analysing buying patterns. Since it readiness for the market‚ online retailing has seen remarkable growth rates and begins to gain a significant share of total retail sales which results in a fundamental
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“Wheel of Retailing” Continues‚ as Wal-Mart Starts to Move Upstream SCDigest editorial staff Anyone who took a college course on Retailing may be familiar with the age of old concept of the “Wheel of Retailing” – the consistent cycle of retailers gaining a foothold into a market through productivity and low prices‚ only over time to lose some of that edge and begin to move upstream in terms of product mix and customers‚ only to later face more competitive problems as the newest round
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MARKETING MANAGEMENT 6 (Retail Management) GOLDILOCKS BAKESHOP (www.goldilocks.com.ph) | Store Location | On the website of Goldilocks‚ there’s a Locator feature where you can you locate all Goldilocks Bakeshop outlets in the Philippines. The store address‚ telephone number and email address are provided. | Merchandise | You can find on the main menu the complete list of the products (bread‚ cakes and pastries) that the store is offering. | Pricing | You can also find on the main menu of
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