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    Assignment: Wal-Mart

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    Wal-Mart…marketing‚ advertising‚ purposeful goal‚ summary 06/09/2012 MAN230-Advertising Principles Myrna Celaya Professor Fletcher Stevens-Henager College-Online Wal-Mart‚ the retail icon‚ taking on yet another strategy when sitting somewhat comfortably‚ (a business is never comfortable or should not be so comfortable)‚ especially when the one to “beat.” Advertising strategy is as any strategy and that is with risk. An example of such risk is investing and the risk tolerance for each

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    Boondocking at Wal-Mart

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    Case 3.1 “Boondocking” At Wal-Mart Q1: List the stakeholders involved and their influence. Identify any fundamentals of business or capitalism involved. Recreational Vehicle (RV) Park Owners---For example: Ted McAfee. These owners have directly influence on the local city regulations and Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart stores---The stores allow those RV owners parking at store parking lots for free; however‚ they do not provide any kind of facilities to them. RV owners---They preferred to parking at Wal-Mart’s

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    Wal-Mart Ethics

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    Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc. is currently entangled in a legal battle that will decide if the company has engaged willfully in gender-based discrimination. Underlying causes‚ organizational culture and ethical issues will be examined in determining how the largest private employer in the United States could have fallen prey to unfair labor practices. "In 1999‚ women constituted 72% of Wal-Mart’s hourly employees‚ but only 33% of its managerial employees" (Bhatnagar‚ 2004). This fact and many others

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    wal-mart in Mexico

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    well-established retail chain in Mexico. 1997 Wal-Mart consolidated its position in Mexico after it acquired a major stake of 62% in Cifra. 2001 it controlled nearly half of the Mexican retail market. 2003 Wal-Mex became Mexico’s largest private employer. Success factors: 1. entry through a joint venture with an established local player. Cifra provided Wal-Mart with the necessary understanding of the Mexican market and helped

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    Wal-Mart Scandal

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    giant‚ Wal-Mart. His investigation started after Wal-Mart shut down its internal investigation over the possible bribery of Mexican officials. Wal-Mart used these bribes to accelerate growth in their Mexican zoning areas. These allegations surfaced when a Hispanic lawyer contacted Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville Arkansas. This lawyer had inside information on Wal-Mart’s bribes‚ as he represented them in their acts. He was used as a middle man for Wal-Mart’s payoffs to these officials. Wal-Mart

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    Wal-Mart Staffing

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    In the case of “Staffing Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc” the greatest issue seems to be that of diversity. Numerous lawsuits surfaced against the Wal-Mart corporation with allegations of gender discrimination. One symptom that may have been overlooked was the fact that while Wal-Mart’s employment figure had increased by 50 percent in a span of five years‚ the percentage of women the company employed had actually decreased by three percent. Another issue‚ particularly prior to 1998‚ was that higher-level

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    Wal-Mart

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    Choice: Diversity: Past‚ Present and Future Diversity: What Does It Mean to You? Introduction Globalization and the multinational corporation are becoming commonplace. Most countries have a multicultural makeup based on demographics. Organizations are facing a rapidly changing workforce composition as they attempt to standardize implementations of cross-border businesses. In order to obtain a competitive advantage‚ organizations need to deal with

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    Wal-Mart Resources

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    Assignment 1 Introduction Wal-Mart uses a tremendous amount of information resources to build their marketing decision support systems and customer relationship management environment. Wal-Mar’s main objective is to provide their customers with the best value they can find anywhere while providing friendly and efficient customer service. Its strategies are based on reducing costs to quality products so they are able to achieve “everyday low prices” (Walmart.com‚ 2013). Wal-Mart has to be able to monitor

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    Summary Under staunch leadership‚ Wal-Mart rose to the top of the proverbial business food-chain after its foundation in 1962 (Ferrell‚ Fraedrich‚ & Ferrell‚ 2011). The company’s beginnings were humble‚ growing from one store to 3‚000 in only 5 decades (Ferrell‚ Fraedrich‚ & Ferrell‚ 2011). Like most companies‚ Wal-Mart faced the trials and tribulations caused by evolving‚ adapting‚ and competing in a growing‚ changing world. Wal-Mart responded positively to the highly controversial lawsuits

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    Case Study 1-2 Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc.‚ in 2010 In 1979‚ Wal-Mart store was an unknown retailer compared to Kmart‚ the industry leader. “In less than 25 years‚ Wal-Mart had risen to become the largest corporation in sales‚” (Barney & Hesterly‚ 2012‚ PC 1-13). Wal-Mart had many challenges to face in the discount trade. This case displays Wal-Mart’s competitive advantages‚ how they developed them‚ if they are sustainable and how they have battled with their competitors. Furthermore‚ through the

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