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    You Decide: Wal-Mart Cultural differences are the core of international operations. These differences are identified through purchasing preferences and shopping trends‚ which provide opportunities for international expansion of hypermarkets. Hypermarkets must consider the cultural differences from domestic operations and conform to these differences by offering products consumers are currently purchasing from local retailers. This will provide a competitive advantage for the hypermarket‚ resulting

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    Place: Wal-Mart Time: 14:00-15:00 April 3rd Object: A couple around 60 years old The reason why I choose them: I guess that during the shopping time there must be a lot of conversation between them. So it might be much easier for me to catch what they were thinking at that time‚ and the possibility that I was found to be tracking them is less. Observation record and my conclusions: 1. shopping purpose and personal interests On the first floor of Wal-Mart‚ food except for sock‚ flavoring

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    Walmart Veteran Hiring Practices When an individual separates or retires from the military‚ the challenge to reintegrate into civilian life is immediately upon them. Not only is a person subjected to a less structured style of living‚ the challenge to find employment to support themselves and their families can be an unpromising task. Companies such as Walmart are doing their part to make veteran hiring a priority in their labor portfolio by pushing out initiatives to assist these former military

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    Case 8: Sustaining Competitive advantage Question 1: What are the isolating mechanisms preserving Wal-Mart’s competitive advantage in the US market? (use readings case 7) Sam Walton was the founder of Wal-Mart. Sam had the idea of reaching small towns in rural areas where the people had to travel many miles to do their shopping. This was a big market that was initially ignored by the major players before Wal-Mart. Eventually Wal-Mart grew to become market leader among the US discount department

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    an eye on its competitors‚ such as Kmart‚ Costco‚ and Target. Economic uncertainty‚ threat of unions‚ and government regulation can all be found in regions such as Germany. Germany has one of the highest degrees of unions and this has a profound effect on hiring‚ retaining‚ and laying off employees. Unions make it hard for a company to decide on its labor force requirements because once an employee is hired‚ it costs more in Germany to keep the employee on payroll and to lay off the employee.

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    Case Analysis: Staffing Wal-Mart Stores Wal-Mart has been ranked in the Fortune’s list of the top 100 companies to work for in the United States (Mark‚ 2003). Wal-Mart had increased their workforce from 1996 to 2001 by almost 50 percent‚ of which the percentage of women decreased from 67 percent to 64 percent during this time. Wal- Mart had used a hierarchical human resources (HR) structure that consisted of several levels of management‚ divisions‚ and regions. “In 2001‚ management employees

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    Unethical Business Practice Most people would agree that the objective of most businesses is to make money in an honorable manner‚ and to conduct business in an ethical way. Well‚ not all businesses operate in an honorable and ethical manner. According to Lovelenna Rajeev‚ author of Ethical and Unethical Business Practice‚ “Business ethics are moral values and principles‚ that determine our conduct in the business world. It refers to the commercial activities‚ either with other business houses

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    WAL-MART CASE STUDY ANALYSIS SWOT STRENGTH ▪ Information Technology : They have a strong information technology system as implemented EDI‚ Information system‚ UPC at POS‚ Satellite system‚ Pick to light system‚ Vendor management inventory system which was not implemented by any other competitor. ▪ Supply Chain (Strong). They had a long term relationship with the supplier as there was no non sense negotiator as they eliminated the manufacture representative from negotiation with the suppliers

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    Hello‚ Wal-Mart? Hello‚ Wal-Mart? Executive Summary With the emergence of new Wal-Mart locations opening‚ many concerns have been brought to the attention of Wal-Mart executives. We have reviewed the many concerns of the town in which the new Wal-Mart is being proposed to being built. We also reviewed the concerns and benefits that the new Wal-Mart will have on small businesses and the local community. The concerns of the residents are something that needs to be taken seriously and

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    Porter’s Five Forces Model‚ Wal-Mart Suppliers Wal-Mart is an important and dominant customer to its suppliers‚ for some of them it’s also the largest one. Wal-Mart isn’t dependent on one supplier‚ but rather obtains its goods from a lot of different suppliers. For this reason‚ suppliers need to satisfy Wal-Mart in order to keep it as a long term customer. This is realized by special payment terms‚ delivery dates and discounts. The success of these relationships is proved by the increasing

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