Impact of ICT on consumer purchase preferance towards retail chain store: study banani area Introduction: Chain stores are retail outlets that share a brand and central management‚ and usually have standardized business methods and practices. Before considered a chain‚ stores must meet a litmus test; it must have more than 10 units in 2 or more distinct geographies under the same brand and have a central headquarters‚ otherwise it offers franchise contracts or is publicly traded. These characteristics
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|Retailing | |Founded |2001 | |Headquarters |Mumbai‚ Maharashtra‚ India | |Products |Department store | |Revenue |Rs 6000 crores (in 2011) (Big Bazaar and Food Bazaar | | |combined) | |Employees |~ 36000 people [1]
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1) A convenience store chain attempts to be responsive and provide customers what they need‚ when they need it‚ where they need it. What are some different ways that a convenience store supply chain can be responsive? What are some risks in each case? In order to be response‚ a store has to make a selection between holding large inventory or frequent orders & frequent delivery routes. With holding large inventory‚ risks would be: risk of unsold products; inventory costs (in terms of money)
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INTRODUCTION Macy’s‚ America’s leading department store retailer‚ has a rich history dating back to 1858 when it was started off as a small dry goods store by Rowland Hussey Macy ’s. At come that time‚ no one would have guessed that the store would grow on to become one of the largest department store retailers. However‚ it was not all success in the initial period and after some failed retail ventures; R H Macy’s continued hard work and grit paid off with the launch of R.H. Macy & Co. Sales
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Multi-channel merchants: brick and click companies that have a network of physical stores as their primary retail channel‚ but have also introduced online offerings. these are multi- channel firms such as Walmart‚ Sears‚ JCPenney‚ Staples‚ OfficeMax‚ Costco‚ Macy’s‚ Target‚ And other brand-name merchants. While brick and click merchants face high costs of physical buildings and large sales staffs‚ they also have many advantages such as brand name‚ a national customer base‚ ware-houses‚ large scale
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Introduction To be honest‚ I am sincerely to applicant for the Store Operational manager (Luxury Brand) of your company and hope to give a few of minutes looking at my detailed report and planning of the job. I am a Degree (Hons) holder in Retail and Service Management with 7 years’ experience in retail and service operations. I have worked for ARMANI in at least 5 years‚ which includes managing retail store in United Kingdom and Hong Kong. It improves my working background and confidence
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a U.S. department store chain that sells a mix of items including men ’s and women ’s apparel‚ home decor‚ and accessories. The department store appeals to middle-class consumers by selling discounted branded and private label clothing and home goods. Kohl ’s is in the same category of national department store competitors such as J.C. Penney and Macy ’s Inc. Kohl ’s is vulnerable to a weak U.S. economy and declining consumer spending because the company has no stores outside of the US and
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of energy and resource conservation adds to its appeal. The supermarkets utilize efficient equipment in their stores and operations (Recruiting‚ 2007). Stores are designed to use 30% less energy than typical grocery stores its size‚ and recycling is a priority. Fresh & Easy has been a savior tenant for many developers‚ eating up 14‚000 square foot chunks of old space and dark drug stores (Retail‚ 2009). Its entrance into the United States was the first time Tesco entered a country without a supercenter
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The first Wal-Mart store was opened on July 2nd 1962 in Rogers‚ Arkansas by Sam Walton‚ who believed that the future of retailing lay in discounting. To avoid competing head on with companies like Sears and Woolworths which dominated big cities‚ Walton opened stores in less populated areas that was ignored by other retailers. The stores aimed to serve customers who‚ up until then‚ had to travel long distances to save money‚ and to purchase daily household goods. Now they could buy the same goods
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Shriraman S 2011PGP879 Executive Summary Wal-Mart was a chain of discount stores that operated from several locations within the United States. Discount stores were those which sold merchandise at unprecedentedly low margins. To sustain this‚ they cut costs to the bone. Furthermore‚ In order to control the costs of goods sold‚ it built its own warehouses‚ through which it could buy in volume at attractive prices and store the merchandise. Initially started in small southwestern towns‚ Wal-Mart
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