CAN COSTCO’S ANTI-WAL-MART APPROACH SUCCEED IN THE LONG RUN? Mikhail Camacho Franz Dionisio Mica Soriano I. Overview The article talks about Costco CEO Jim Sinegal’s strategy in attracting and keeping its shopper base. The article also highlights Costco’s employee wages and compensations which are relative higher than their competition. The article also showed Costco’s overall retail strategy which has been key to their “anti-Wal-mart” image. II. Situation Analysis Internal Strengths
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cities look like “over blown villages without urban culture and urban functional characteristics.” Due to shortage of houses poor people are forced to live in slums or streets (Gimba and G.Kumshe‚ 2011)‚ as they cannot afford the rising prices in the houses. This case is clearly visible in the city of Mumbai‚ where 62% of population lives in slums due to acute housing shortage (B. Jain‚ 2010). To get rid of this problem‚ administration should make “Garden cities” around the big cities in order to accommodate
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people living in Slums of Islamabad by Wealth Index and by household deprivations as an application to Human Development Index (HDI) Nadeem Akhtar Abstract In Pakistan and across the world‚ slums have been the characteristics of urban setting. Almost every slum setting exits across the boundaries of cities but in Islamabad‚ slums are right at the center of urban sectors and they are inhabited particularly on banks of riverine nullas. Notwithstanding‚ CDA has approved these slums. People started to
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entirety by China‚ Taiwan‚ and Vietnam‚ while portions are claimed by Malaysia and the Philippines. About 45 islands are occupied by relatively small numbers of military forces from China‚ Malaysia‚ the Philippines‚ Taiwan‚ and Vietnam. Since 1985 Brunei has claimed a continental shelf that overlaps a southern reef but has not made any formal claim to the reef. Brunei claims an exclusive economic zone over this area. Administratively‚ the Calayan island was part of the Batanes group of islands. From
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Hinagdang Palayan (Rice Terraces) Hinagdang Palayan (Rice Terraces) Hinagdang Palayan (Rice Terraces) The Banaue Rice Terraces are 2‚000-year old terraces that were carved into the mountains of Ifugao in the Philippines by ancestors of the indigenous people. The Rice Terraces are commonly referred to by Filipinos as the "Eighth Wonder of the World". Maria Cristina Falls Maria Cristina Falls Maria Cristina Falls Maria Cristina FallsMaria Cristina Falls Maria Cristina Falls is a waterfall
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Elections: through the years‚ the youth has been strategically and sometimes corruptly used for electoral purposes from campaign ads to solicitations to school events and even during graduation ceremonies exploiting our national hero‚ Jose Rizal’s famous line‚ “The youth is the hope of our Fatherland.” Same stories‚ same strategies. But how is this year’s election on the hands of the youth any different? Are we still the un-empowered generation who‚ in the near future‚ will take over the nation?
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SECTION 1 You cannot be deprived of your life‚ liberty or property without any reason on their part and without giving an explanation or right be heard on your part on why you should not be deprive of your life‚ liberty or property. As regards to equal protection of the laws‚ it means the law applies to all‚ we are all protected by it‚ but we are all subjected to it once we violate its rules. Nobody shall be convicted without going through proper due process. SECTION 2 Before a police officer
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the South East Asian nation of the Philippines. The Republic of the Philippines is an archipelago‚ or chain of islands‚ located off the south-eastern coast of Asia. Consisting of over 7‚000 volcanic islands with a total land area of nearly 300‚000 square kilometers (approximately the size of Arizona)‚ islands of the Philippines are predominantly mountainous except for densely populated coastal plains on larger islands. The country is located over the Philippine Trench‚ a plate tectonic boundary which
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economic orientation to Pakistan‚ is none other than the Philippines. The gross domestic product (GDP) of a country is the total market value of all the goods and services produced within an economy in a given year. Based on the 2007 statistics provided by the International Monetary Fund‚ the nominal GDP of Pakistan‚ calculated in millions of U.S. dollars‚ was 143‚766; giving this country a world rank of 47th out of 179. The nominal GDP of the Philippines‚ in millions of U.S. dollars‚ was 144‚129; positioning
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THE BEAUTY OF NATURE IN THE PHILIPPINES A Research Paper Presented to MS.NUR-AYN KABIRUN-OMAR Department of English College of Social Sciences and Humanities Mindanao State University Marawi City In Partial Fulfillment Of
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