Dollar General: Case Study #1 Timothy Mayer Professor Perreira 02/01/2010 Executive Summary: Dollar General Corporation is a leader in the discount retail industry‚ but clearly could use new information systems to further establish its presence and dominate the industry. The ability of Dollar General to set up new stores quickly‚ at a low cost‚ and efficiently has enabled them to maximize their revenue‚ while keeping costs minimal. Dollar General is very dependent on the ability of
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Executive Summary With only 30% of its sales coming from dollar items‚ Dollar General is competing on a larger scale with more known product brands. Educating the consumer in order to change their perception of dollar stores will increase sales and generate larger average dollars spent by a customer. Increasing advertising about Dollar General’s brand-named products will help educate consumers and change their perceptions. Datamonitor reported consumer’s worry that Wal-Mart threatens local businesses
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METU © 2014 IS 501 Information Management Systems ASSIGNMENT 1 Answers 1. a) Explain and discuss the strategic business objectives that the information systems of Dollar General address. Goodlettsville‚ Tenn.-based Dollar General Corporation is the US nation’s largest small-box discount retailer. Dollar General(DG) offers a carefully edited assortment of the most popular brands at low everyday prices in small‚ convenient locations. DG ranks among the largest retailers of top-quality brands
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What is Dollar General’s strategy to compete? Dollar General has done an outstanding job of consistently implementing a focused low cost strategy. The company’s strategic intent of being a customer-driven distributor of consumable basics and its effort has resulted in 6‚300 stores in 27 states‚ $6.1 billion in sales‚ and 54‚000 employees. Dollar General Stores target large families‚ low-income and fixed-income and blue-collar households‚ and women ages 55 to 64. (C-87) Dollar General has determined
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We are becoming increasingly dependent on computers. They are used in business‚ hospitals‚ crime detection and even to fly planes. What things will they be used for in the future? Is this dependence on computers a good thing or should we be more suspicious of their benefits? In the last two decades cybernetics have experienced a major breakthrough .This led to the utilization of computers in nearly all parts of our daily life‚ from personal computers to the ones performing complicated surgeries
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Living in a world being a poor hustler‚ waking up every night thinking about the bills due tomorrow. Will I lose a dollar or will I make a dollar? Those are the things that go through your mind‚ when you have a family and not a dollar to give to them. All kind of promises are made‚ but not one every kept. Keeping a roof with lights and water that’s the promise being made by the poor hustler. African American social movements emphasizing how the controversial performances of black men as black hustlers
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more consumers are eating more meals outside of their homes. Most of the growth in away-from-home eating has been in the fast food sector. In this increasingly competitive industry‚ while franchising has become a popular vehicle for the fast food sector ’s growth and maintaining profitability in the shrinking market share‚ it also provides target customers with high quality and efficient service. As a result‚ along with the socio-economic‚ demographic and behavioral changes‚ consumer demands for eating
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An Increasingly Globalized Planet In his book A Brief History of Globalization: The Untold Story of Our Incredible Shrinking Planet‚ Alex MacGillivray interprets four historical phases: the Iberian carve-up‚ the Britannic meridian‚ Sputnik world‚ and the global-supply chain. -------------. MacGillivray supports his arguments of movement and trade creating an increasingly globalized planet by giving examples of the ? in the ? phase‚ ? in the ? phase‚ ? in the ? phase‚ and ? in the ? phase. MacGillivray
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ARTICLE www.hbr.org Why Satisfied Customers Defect by Thomas O. Jones and W. Earl Sasser‚ Jr. Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief— the core idea The Idea in Practice— putting the idea to work 2 Why Satisfied Customers Defect 14 Further Reading A list of related materials‚ with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications Product 6838 Why Satisfied Customers Defect The Idea in Brief The Idea in
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Weak Dollar vs. Strong Dollar With the economy constantly changing‚ we are starting to see drastic changes in our dollar. A countries currency determines their strength in the market and their inflation rate. With a higher inflation rate‚ they are able to buy more and do more for a cheaper price. To help us better understand the difference between the weak dollar and the strong dollar‚ we will go in depth with both weak and strong dollars and its advantages and disadvantages‚ the currency monitor
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