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    premeditated attempts to control conduct. Wal-Marts organizational structure consists of a divisional structure. A divisional structure has three different categories in which are product structure‚ market structure‚ and geographic structure. Wal-Mart falls under market structure. This is where groups function by types of customers so that each division contains the functions it needs to service a specific segment of the market (p.514‚ George‚ Jones). For example Wal-Mart offers vision‚ pharmacy‚ haircuts

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    strategies of Carrefour and Wal-Mart in the Chinese market A recent article (Liu Jie‚ 2008) revealed that restrictions on business numbers‚ geographical positions and stockholders have been gradually diminished‚ which can be regarded as a supplement to promises to WTO. As a consequence of market liberalization‚ foreign retailers have gained rights to compete with domestic companies in Chinese market. Over recent years‚ Chinese market has appealed the booming entry to external retail chains and has become

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    Small Cars: New Paradigm Shift? Our country has long had an obsession with the automobile. The designs of the sixties and seventies remain fond memories that still dominate our garages and car shows today. Nobody can be anybody without owning a car in today’s culture. It is a status symbol. Our society equates bigger with better. The bigger and more expensive the car you own‚ the higher your status must be. Everywhere you go there are Escalades and Navigators. They are America‚ writ large and thirsty

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    Tutor______________________ | Date _______________ | How should Wal-Mart rationalize its seafood supply chain to reduce costs and promote sustainability? In‐depth analysis on the case ‘Wal-Mart’s sustainability strategy (C): Inventory management in the seafood supply chain’. And to analyze ‘How should Walmart rationalize its seafood supply chain to reduce costs and promote sustainability?’ 1. Introduction According to (Anon‚ 2012) Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is an U.S based multinational retailer that

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    Thesis The first year of operation for Wal-Mart was 1962. At this time‚ Sam Walton ’s stores in Arkansas and Kansas were already facing competition from regional discount chains‚ such as K-Mart and Target. Sam traveled the country to study this radical‚ new retailing concept and was convinced it was the wave of the future. Today‚ Sam Walton has a global company with more than 1.8 million associates worldwide and nearly 6‚500 stores and wholesale clubs across 14 countries. This kind of success

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    A New Marketing Paradigm for Electronic Commerce Donna L. Hoffman hoffman@colette.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu Thomas P. Novak novak@moe.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu February 19‚ 1996 Paper submitted for the Special Issue on Electronic Commerce for The Information Society. Keywords: computer-mediated environments‚ World Wide Web‚ marketing on the Internet‚ the marketing concept and corporate strategy A New Marketing Paradigm for Electronic Commerce Running Title: A New Marketing Paradigm for

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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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    The retail giant Wal-Mart is based in Bentonville‚ Arkansas and it was founded by the late Sam Walton (1918 – 1992). In the mid 60s Sam Walton was looking at technology to use IBM mainframes to store inventory data (Wallgum‚ p.1‚ 2010). “Wal-Mart Stores Inc. built an inventory and supply chain management system that changed the face of business” (Helen‚ p. 38‚ 2002). Beginning his career in the mid 40s Sam Walton knew the importance of meeting customer’s needs and this ideology remains today. According

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    differ for that of Wal-Mart? Wal-Mart ’s business model is centered around providing a widespread of products at "always low prices." Wal-Mart has chosen to have "greeters" at each of their store entrances. It is an industry practice for retailers to charge a slotting price for their items to be seen on store shelves‚ but Wal-Mart is one of a few retailers who do not. Their main focus is to sell popular products and to drop products that are no longer selling. Also‚ Wal-Mart has built their chain

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    Case Study: Can Albertsons Trounce Wal-Mart with Advanced Information Technology? 1. Analyze Albertsons using the value chain and competitive forces model. The grocery industry as a whole is competing aggressively for razor-thin profit margins. Albertsons has much to do to gain a competitive advantage against Wal-Mart who are famous for keeping the prices of its merchandise low‚ but still reap a 3 cent profit for every dollar of sales whereas the industry average is one cent per dollar of

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