Zimbabwe Retail Sector: A look at some of the challenges presented by good economy growth. By Girland Chibaya A recent Economic Report for Africa mentioned that Zimbabwe is now ranked among the top 10 economic performers in Africa. While this is good news‚ what does this mean especially to those South African retail companies that are looking into investing in the country. A recent trend has shown that most retailers are starting to pay more attention to store growth to both South Africa and Sub-Saharan
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the features of the disease is fixed airflow obstruction which is where the patient’s FEV1/FVC ratio is less than 0.7. The reduction of this ratio is caused by parenchymal and airway damage resulting from chronic inflammation (Nice.org.uk‚ 2010). Fixed airflow obstruction is more commonly found in severe asthma with a prevalence of approximately 49%. Asthma patients that developed the disease during adulthood have been found to be at a threefold risk of suffering fixed airflow obstruction‚ but it has
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Impact of Petrol Price Hike Economics State-run oil companies announced a hike of Rs 7.50 per litre in petrol prices - a direct fall-out of elevated international crude oil prices‚ which had until now not registered a pass-through in domestic market prices; thereby impacting the financial and liquidity position of oil marketing companies (OMCs) in the country. A depreciating rupee has only added to this pressure. While diesel and LPG prices have been left untouched‚ this move is expected to provide
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Does Higher Price Signal Better Quality? INTERFACES presents articles focusing on managerial applications of management practices‚ theories‚ and concepts D P S Verma and Soma Sen Gupta Executive Summary KEY WORDS Product Quality Perceived Quality Purchase Decision Price-quality Relationship With differentiated products‚ consumers may not be aware of the quality and features of the products they buy. They are often unable to make a quality comparison among various brands
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CPI is a statistical time-series measure of a weighted average of prices of a specified set of goods and services purchased by consumers. It is a price index that tracks the prices of a specified basket of consumer goods and services‚ providing a measure of inflation. \CPI is a fixed quantity price index and considered by some a cost of living index. Under CPI‚ an index is scaled so that it is equal to 100 at a chosen point in time‚ so that all other values of the index are a percentage relative
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Retail Loyalty Programs Loyalty Programs in retail : An overview What is a loyalty program ? Loyalty programs are the schemes designed with an intention to retain existing customers and attract new customers by rewarding a customer with both hard and soft benefits for his loyalty and patronage. Classification Loyalty programs (either on the shop delivery ’ or web based ’) can be classified either based on types of rewards and recognition tools used or the mechanism by which customers earn
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Differences Between Online Retail & Traditional Retail Businesses Learning eCommerce Often times‚ it is easy to overlook the differences between selling online through a shopping cart and retail selling through a brick and mortar storefront. Online retail is different from selling through a store in many ways and you should become familiar with the differences so you can better understand the many benefits of selling online compared to selling through a physical storefront. The obvious differences
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THE UNIVERSITY OF LAHORE ECONOMICS PROJECT GROUP MEMBERS:SAAD JAVEDUMER SALEEMSAJID MUSHTAQ | BCS01113326BCS01113341BCS0111 | TOPIC: “EFFECT OF PETROLEUM PRICES ON ECONOMY” LITERATURE REVIEW: A literature review is a text written by someone to consider the critical points of current knowledge including substantive findings as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. Critical points: * history * History: Petroleum‚ in one form or another
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FISHER-PRICE CASE ANALYSIS I. PROBLEM The main problem facing Jack Asthalter‚ Fisher-Price’s marketing vice president is whether or not to move forward with the production of a new ATV Explorer toy. The extensive market research that Fisher-Price performed with children and their parents was very positive in favor of producing the ATV Explorer. Unfortunately‚ the production costs were going to exceed initial estimates of $12.00 retail and instead require a wholesale price of $9.20 per
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Demand 10. The long-run price elasticity of demand for a product is generally _________ the short-run elasticity for the same product. A. lower than B. equal to C. higher than D. not comparable to 11. Assume the demand function for skin care products is given by Q = 1‚000 – 20 P + 5I. If P=$25 and I=$1‚000 currently‚ then: A. skin care products are a normal good. B. the elasticity of demand is equal to 11. C. skin care products are inferior. D. The price is too high 12. If the demand
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