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    Introduction In 2004‚ Wal-Mart claimed to have the largest data warehouse with 500 terabytes storage. In 2009‚ eBay storage amounted to eight petabytes equivalent to 104 years of HD-TV video. Two years later‚ the Yahoo warehouse totaled 170 petabytes1 which is 8.5 times of all hard disk drives created in 1995. Since the rise of digitization‚ enterprises from various verticals have amassed burgeoning amounts of digital data‚ capturing trillions of bytes of information about their customers‚ suppliers

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    How do Wal-Mart’s affect a small town’s economy? Some people may think it would boost the economy and give job opportunities to the ones that live there. It will save them money in the long run. Although some people may agree it boost it‚ there are also people that believe it would put a lot of family owned businesses out of business and they may also take up a lot of ground area to build. In New York they did a random sampled poll for small businesses to vote and see how many small

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    Walmart Jit

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    According to Crosson and Needles the Just-In-Time (JIT) operating philosophy requires that “all resources—material‚ personnel‚ and facilities—be acquired and used only when they are need. Its objectives are to improve productivity and eliminate waste.” They go on to sate that this process allows funds to be reallocated according to the goals of the company’s business plan since they are no longer invested in inventory. This method helps retailers like Wal-Mart “assign more accurate costs to their

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    Brookfield Place

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    From Brookfield Place Ensues High Fashion & Hot Debate The question of whether malls are in or out in Manhattan has been hotly contested since Brookfield Place‚ a luxury mall in downtown Manhattan‚ sprung up directly across from Ground Zero. Even as a Real Estate investor‚ I can relate to both sides of this argument‚ especially when bringing it down to the basic question of what exactly constitutes a mall? As Adam Bonislawski relates in his Observer article‚ there seems to be some question over

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    Big Time Toymaker Case Scenario: Big Time Toymaker Big Time Toymaker (BTT) develops‚ manufactures‚ and distributes board games and other toys to the United States‚ Mexico‚ and Canada. Chou is the inventor of a new strategy game he named Strat. BTT was interested in distributing Strat and entered into an agreement with Chou whereby BTT paid him $25‚000 in exchange for exclusive negotiation rights for a 90-day period. The exclusive negotiation agreement stipulated that no distribution

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    Eaton's Turnover

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    Based on the above timeline‚ Eaton’s demise started as early as 1952‚ when Sears joined forces with Eaton’s main competitor at the time‚ Simpsons. The Simpson’s-Sears venture proved to be effective‚ as Sears brought their expertise from operating in the US for many years and quickly established new stores in the suburbs which tended to be the growth part for most communities. The stores were new and modern. Eaton’s management had failed to respond to its competitors actions of locating their stores

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    Compare the business model for ET Wal-Mart and Amazon Compare walmart.com and amazon.com. What characteristics are shared? That are unique to walmart.com and amazon.com for that? Going to both websites at first glance I noticed many similarities between walmart.com and amazon.com. Both sites are online merchants that have been made by an identical model‚ where the menu of product categories on the left page margin. Amazon.com has 13 product categories or departments‚ as they call it on the

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    New vs. Used

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    The mindset this day in age is buying new is buying better. In some instances I whole heartedly agree. For example‚ underwear‚ mattresses‚ and shoes are a few things I would never buy used. Obviously no one wants to where someone else’s undergarments or sleep on a piece of furniture that maybe infested with who knows what. Used shoes can also be hazardous to your health because once a new shoe is worn it forms to that persons unique foot. Wearing shoes that are not conformed to your feet can cause

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    Why developed countries’ firms fail in emerging economies Abstract This article is based on giving advice to John Lewis on expanding to an emerging foreign market‚ China. It evaluates the dynamic challenges that western developed companies faced when expanding to emerging markets. By analyzing two case studies of failure to enter emerging markets‚ which are the cases of Wal-Mart entering into Brazil and Best Buy entering China‚ a few recommendations are made to John Lewis to consider and be aware

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    In “The ‘Magic of the Mall’: An Analysis of Form‚ Function‚ and Meaning in the Contemporary Retail Built Environment”‚ Jon Goss explains the motives of the modern mall. With shopping being America’s second most loved activity‚ developers have found that there are large amounts of profit to be made from shopping malls. Developers build malls in hopes that a good mix of tenants will arrive‚ that they will keep a certain middle to upper class demographic in the mall‚ and that they will keep high-quality

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