Essays on Retailing

The Case of Walmart Stores Inc. (Article Review)

This paper attempts to study the case of Walmart Stores Inc. from the author’s perspective in her article ‘Walmart Stores, Inc. in 2013’. The purpose of the article is to analyze the strategies considered by Walmart to retain the sustainable competitive advantage over its rivals in the retailing sector which has become quite challenging with the establishment of One Stop Stores, heavy discounting and online selling. The purpose although not stated specifically can be interpreted easily from the situation depicted in the article concerning Walmart’s position in the retail sector.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS & INFORMATION

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Defining E-Commerce

E-commerce is a form of conducting business over an electronic network, most preferably the internet. It is a process involving the online interaction between the buyer and the seller or between two entrepreneurs characterized by online exchange of money.

Factors leading to the rise in the number of consumer shopping online

A huge number of people today have access to the internet compared to the number a decade or two ago. A large number of online users leads to more people preferring shopping for consumer goods online because entrepreneurs offer their products at lower prices that the normal higher-retail shops. Second, the efficiency and effectiveness of online shopping contributed to the ...

Capstone Project [Phase]

Computer and Information Science Sharjah Higher Colleges of Technology Literature Review Introduction The project aims to create a website for a restaurant that is yet to incorporate online applications into its functional operations. It is imperative for the restaurant to have a website for allowing customers to see all the foods and drinks on offer without necessarily going to the stores and also for allowing them to pay for their orders on online platforms using their credit cards. Additional advantages the ability to view pricing of varied items alongside the delivery times and pictures of the varied food items ...

Marketing mix consists of four elements that are product, price, place and promotion. It is known as one of the most important factors in marketing that can help to market the right product to the target audience. Marketing mix can be used for any product or service in any area and sports is not an exception. Sports marketing managers control each element’s strategy of the marketing mix separately. The only difference is that in sports marketing instead of place there is distribution. Therefore, the next paragraphs are focused on product, place, promotion and distribution (Shank). So, the goal ...

Executive summary

This product is centered on virtual reality technology. As a matter of fact, this product is designed for law enforcement officers. By simulating the dangerous conditions and circumstances that police officers have to work under on a periodical basis, the software will help law enforcement officers, make better decisions in a short period. Some of the decisions that it will help a law enforcement officer make are when to discharge a weapon when to engage a suspect and how to ascertain whether a situation has a potential of being volatile. What is more is that this software not only ...

Introduction

This business plan intends to operate a lemonade stand business in a local neighborhood by the name of ‘Lemon-Aid’. The name ‘Lemon-Aid’ has been chosen with a creatively altered spelling as it is catchy and therefore, will be easy to remember. This will also clearly reflect the product features and also involve a fun factor. The brand will use a slogan, ‘When Life Gives You Lemons, Get Your Lemon-Aid'. The selection of the name ‘Lemon-Aid' is based on its relatedness with the business type. Moreover, using a catchy name will not only attract customers but will also be easy ...

Introduction

This report outlines the performance of Tesco PLC as a multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer as compared to other rival players in the industry. Close attention is paid to the selected ratios to show the financial stability of the company about rivals. The ratios show profitability, gearing, and liquidity of the company. The company takes the largest market share in the UK. Initially, it was dealing with grocery but later diversified into other sectors such as banking, clothing, and among others. Therefore, the annual financial report of the company provides vital information for investors.

Company history

Tesco PLC was founded ...

Fashion and food

1. Executive summary The clothing and the foot ware market in Saudi Arabia performs quite well due to the thriving economy and the high levels of the disposable incomes in the country. The unemployment rates are quite low, a fact which has contributed to the growth of the fashion and food markets. Available information at the end of 2015 indicates that the leading fashion brands in the country increased the number of the fashion brands in their portfolio as the customers raised to demand quality and more luxurious brands. As a result, the retailers have expanded the outlets across ...

Executive Summary

Luxury Swap is an innovative web-based product exchange service. Modeled on e-bay's exchange program, Luxury Swap introduces an unparalleled service in KSA, first, and hopes to expand into GCC, East Europe, North America and world at large. The service connects upper class / sellers, who have unneeded luxury products, and middle class/ buyers, who, although having rising disposable income, cannot afford to purchase luxury products at retail prices. This report is made up of five sections: (1) Service Information, (2). PEST Analysis & SWOT Analysis, (3) Strategic Marketing Objectives, (4) Market Segmentation & Positioning and (5) Four Ps Strategies and (6) ...

Al Squor is a company based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with a primary mission of selling cars through retail system. The company is a family-owned business and has its headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Al Squor is considered a leader in the car retailing industry. It has survived the financial crisis in 2008 and its financial standing is stable now (“Decypha: Al Squor Gallery Profile” par. 1). Car retail is different from car dealership. In car retailing, a private firm purchases cars from manufacturers and sells them as in selling finished goods. Al Squor imports cars from the United ...

Introduction

The Warehouse Group Limited is one of New Zealand’s largest retailers. It has deals on an array of products like clothing, entertainment, grocery, technology and many more. The company is officially termed as TW Group. It was founded by Stephen Tindall in 1982. It maintains 92 stores in New Zealand with an employee base of around 9,000 people (The warehouse official site). Multiple services subsidiaries including but not limited to Warehouse Stationery, Warehouse Group Financial Services and Waikato Valley Chocolates constitute the total TW Group. The Warehouse operates in retail industry selling wide range of grocery and ...

Research methodology

The research was conducted to identify the trends in the Australian clothing and textile market, as well as identify the consumer trends among women who are the primary target market for the business. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods were used in the study to gather information. For the quantitative research methods, data from other researchers was used (Kothari, 2004). The data included the geographical location and climate of Australia and their direct and indirect impacts on the Australian clothing and textile market. Other trends such as sources of raw materials and fashion were also researched with the use ...

Chapter 1: Introduction 3

Chapter 2: Financial Performance and Position of TESCO 6 Chapter 3 Financial Management Policy 14 Chapter 4 Investment Strategy 18 Chapter 5 Valuation of TESCO 22 Chapter 6 Conclusion 26 Abstract The present report provides critical analysis of financial positioning of Tesco Plc. For this, the financial data has been gathered for past five years as well as its competitors to critically assess financial positioning of Tesco in the retail industry. The reports highlight the recent issues of Bretix which has significantly impacted economic conditions of the United Kingdom leading to declining the consumer confidence because of triggering inflation. ...

Introduction

This project is an article review project that covers important elements and aspects of the chapter “Building Customer Satisfaction, Value, and Retention”. This is a chapter in the section “Understanding Marketing Management” in the authoritative book Kotler on Marketing. The focus of this research will be on customer satisfaction, customer value and customer retention in the context of marketing management. This project will include the review of four scholarly journals and articles on marketing and an application of its key concepts to the chapter. Thus, for each article, there will be a 500-600 word critique of the article and ...

Compensation increases must be determined by a workable and properly designed work performance management system. All employees of CORE must have their work appraisals to understand their contribution to the success of the business. The appraisal system will be used to rank and rate every employee, and it is that system that the compensations for the employees will be based on every end of the year to determine salary increases, bonuses and other incentives like training and promotion. This paper examines the current compensation status of CORE and from that develops a plan to manage the arbitrary compensation increases ...

BUSINESS MEGA TRENDS ANALYSIS IN RETAIL SECTOR

Business Mega Trends Analysis in Retail Sector When E- commerce was introduced as an option to conventional trading, little did the business experts know that it would grow into the most preferred business transactional process in a span of just ten years. Today technology, market forces, customer satisfaction and ease of transactions are the factors which determine the success rate of a business enterprise. These factors, also known as Mega trends are driving changes in the retail sector and unless retailers recognize and restructure themselves to build a competitive edge in the present international market, they may be heading ...

Lowe’s has already entered the marked of Canada with 34 stores. Taking into account huge potential of the market, it is necessary to increase the companys presence in order to increase profits. At the same time the administrative and legal expenses, necessity to adjust the functional units to the strict local restrictions and vast number of strong local competitive require new solutions that differ from the standard approaches to new market entrance. The acquisition of Rona, the Canadian-based chain with 79 big box locations and more than 700 smaller stores is good idea as it will reduce the ...

Introduction

Jessops was founded in 1935 by Frank Jessop Simmons well known around the world for its broad expertise and experience in the photographic industry. While Jessop was a leader in the industry for many years, technological and market changes over the last few decades led to a significant decline in its sales and profitability. By early 2013, it stores closed and it stock ceased being traded. However, soon after this British entrepreneur Peter Jones invested millions of pounds into the business and reopen 36 of the Jessops stores (BBC News Online a). He hoped to turn the business around. ...

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Improving Walmart’s Corporate Communications Strategy

Walmart’s image had been steadily eroded by continuing accusations of malpractices and lawsuits to the point that business is experiencing losses. Many have chosen not to shop anymore as a sign of protest. Walmart must a take a proactive stance in facing negative publicity by defining and implementing a communications strategy. Walmart’s detractors have testimonies and evidences that they are willing to bring to court and if there is truth in any of these, the best that Walmart can do is to recognize them and present a conciliatory stance rather than denying accusations, covering ...

Nike is a large - scale company which is famous all over the world. In 2015, the company raised approximately $ 30 billion, and every year this sum grows. The Nike factories are located 55 countries, employs more than 30 thousand people. It is an American brand that produces sport products, clothes and shoes well-known all over the world. The company is named after the Greek goddess of victory Nike. It produces products of such brands as Nike, Air Jordan, Nike Golf, Total 90, Team Starter, and others. The founders of the company are two students of the University of ...

The retailing industry is an area that has grown worldwide owing to the increased consumer interaction that is involved in the retail business. Most importantly, the retail industry has grown internationally because of factors such as brand management and advertising based on lifestyle trends of consumers (Fernie, Fernie and Moore 1).

PESTLE Analysis

Political Factors Political factors influence the performance of a company such as Target. Different countries have differences in terms of tax regulation and tax rates based on the various acts of legislation in the respective countries. Additionally, a retailing business may not be viable in countries with unstable ...

(Technology in the Fashion industry)

Introduction

The fashion industry has been subject to change over time. Companies in the industry have continually advanced in the development of quality and highly attractive fashions. Information and practicality of their ideas have seen the companies advance to extensive heights and embrace the average growth of the fashion industry. It has become highly competitive to engage in the fashion business as new ideas are being developed every day. The changes would mean advancement in business and enhancement of the quality that the companies manufacture. The fashion industry has been a major beneficiary of the ...

Understanding the external business environment will help Priam Rossa to make a huge step in its expansion plans. The environmental analysis provides a framework for developing strategic options in efforts to make a significant presence in the global markets. Due to globalization, the floral market is constantly facing major changes through factors that could be controlled by the organization and those that are out of control. This implies that the operations of Prima Rossa as it seeks to expand its roses retailing business will be influenced greatly by the environment in the territories it wishes to penetrate. The following ...

Essay

Introduction The headquarters of Wal-Mart are located in Bentonville, Arkansas. Sam Walton, the founder of the company, launched a variety store in Newport, Arkansas in 1945. His brother, James 'Bud' Walton, opened an identical store in Missouri in 1946. Until the 1960s the enterprise was focused wholly on variety stores (Brunn, 2006). The original Wal-Mart Discount City was launched in 1962, which became the original discount store of Wal-Mart. The original Sam's Clubs were then launched in 1984, which was followed by the opening of the original supercenter in 1988. The original neighborhood market was launched in 1999. In ...

Abstract

E commerce is one of the most recent consumer dynamics that has called for a change in the marketing plans and strategies for most of the consumer based merchants and manufacturers. This paper focuses on the consumer access and knowledge of shopping online for grocery in US and challenges this particular area of ecommerce experiences within the retail market in the United States. Recent statistics show that 6 billion and 6.5 Billion US dollars were spent on online grocery shopping in 2012 and 2013 respectively. The large sales volume was highly attributed to the after sale deliveries by the ...

The canvas model

The canvas model refers to an ideal business model which is comprised of 9 major items, which touch on different aspects of business (Wirtz, 2010). The firsts aspect here, as pointed out by Wirtz (2010) are key partnerships. These refer to alliances that an enterprise creates to help in its normal operations. At Blue Buddies, the manufacturing of most accessories is outsourced, meaning that the manufacturing firms in the Far East come up as the key partners. The second aspect is the customer segments. The segments refer to the different categories of customers that a company targets . At Blue ...

Report of Hudson’s Bay Company

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Introduction

Founded in 1670 in Canada, Hudson Bay Company (HBC) is the oldest firm in North America, operating in the retail segment across Canada, United States, Germany or Belgium (HBC official website, n.d.). With a long tradition in the fur market, the company adapted to socio-dynamic changes that marked clients’ loss of interest in fur, and adjusted to more modern requests, entering the general retailing business, currently operating in luxury fashion, after acquiring brands such as SAKS Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor, but also owning department store (GAMERIA Kaufhof, Galeria INNO, Sportarena), off-price stores (Designer Depot) or furniture, appliances ...

Business Model Canvas: Blue Buddies

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Basics

An ideal business model comprises of 9 building blocks which describe the specific parts of the business (Wirtz, 2010). Key Partners: These are the alliances created by a business to help in its operations (Wirtz, 2010). At Blue Buddies, they do not manufacture most accessories. Instead, they source them from the far east. Customer Segments: The company serves different customer segments. Segmentation at Blue Buddies is by demographics, personality, and behavior.

Value Proposition: Involves giving the different segments a product that is useful to them (Lindic & Marques da Silva, 2011).

Channels: Include communication, distribution, and sales channels utilized by Blue Buddies to cater to their customers. Customer Relationships: Involves how Blue Buddies relate with each customer ...

INTRODUCTION

Samsung as an innovative company maintains its leadership position in the TV market at global level. In 2014, it earned 1st position in relation to global TV market share (28.3%) across all product lines of flat-panel TV. In 2015, the company secured the leadership position by offering a range of innovative products like UHD, Curved and ultra-large-size TVs, and SUHD TV. The product (Samsung TV) is chosen because of the innovation the company has made in relation to the product. The company to increase the growth of the TV product lines as well as customer satisfaction collaborated with the ...

Assignment 2

Strengths Neiman Marcus has a strong American luxury brand portfolio. Its strong customer loyalty adds up to its strengths. The company’s market sustainability is enhanced by its recession-resistant clients who have considerably high discretionary spending (Leslie, 2016). Besides, the organization has conspicuous, eye-catching multi-channel retail formats thereby attracting a large group of the upper middle class and the upper class. The organization’s departmental stores are located in upscale areas where the target customers including the celebrities and the wealthy class can access them.

Weaknesses

The store’s marketing and global exposure are relatively low compared with the standards ...

H&M Does it surprise you that the second largest clothing retailer is only selling in stores in 54 countries plus an additional 10 countries online? Why do you think it is not covering more of the world's countries?

during its life cycle, as H&M has been introducing new products like home line (2006) and is now planning to introduce sportswear, which may quickly make H&M a leader in the field thanks to advantages that H&M can boast of in the sportswear category. Moreover, Zara is quite slow in introducing their sportswear category, which gives to H&M the possibility to ...

Introduction

Apple Inc. is an American company, headquartered in Cupertino, California, and was founded in the year 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. The company produces hardware and software products including smartphones, personal computers, tablet computers, media players, iCloud and iOS operating systems. The current paper is aimed to enlighten the SWOT analysis of the company in order to incorporate the self-assessment to fit within the organization.

Strengths

According to Forbes (2016), Apple has the highest brand value of $145.3 billion, due to which it is the most recognized brand in the world. Apple Inc. has the competitive ...

Trend

A key trend is facing the global retail market regarding shifting demographics. Although the baby boomers have been the key generation that defined the retail market, they are ageing and being replaced by the Generation Y households (PWC 3).

Relevance to retail

The ageing of the baby boomers is increasing the retailers’ focus on a young generation defined by vitality. The generation is technologically savvy, hence taxing the retailers to adapt formats and channels to their needs and abilities (Oracle 3). In that respect, the traditional retailing that involve physical stores is being challenged to adapt better ways such as online platforms ...

Rocket science retailing is the act of blending the traditional forecasting systems with technology prowess. A flexible supply chain is generated from the high-tech forecasting system. The data so generated should help retailers deeply understand the needs of their customers and how to respond to them in a timely manner (Raman et al, p.1). Rocket science retailing fix that the retailer have to keep a larger stock of slow moving items over a smaller stock of fast moving items. Early sales of products is essential for making predictions. Larger stock enables adjustments of price and availability of items that ...

Introduction

The decision to either shop online or offline depends on the consumer preferences based on a variety of factors. The challenge to the online industry is to ensure that the supply chain is satisfying the demand chain, therefore, enhancing its efficiency. The amount consumers who are willing to pay for the services depend on how they become satisfied with the services that are provided for by the offline or the online industry. Since the online industry in a recent development, it has to apply new selling and branding techniques to convince consumers to buy from them. Proper considerations have ...

Introduction

A multicultural organization is an organization characterized with a workforce of people from diverse social and cultural backgrounds. The workforce includes people from diverse religious, ethnic, racial and gender backgrounds, including those from minority social cultural backgrounds at all levels and in all departments of the organization (Wang & Chan, 2009). Virtual organizations are organizations primarily supported by technology such as World Wide Web, Internet, telecommunications, EDI, e-mails, videoconferencing and groupware. Organizations have been encouraged to become virtual to derive benefits that include lower overhead, lower labor costs, increased employee morale, more project options and flexibility (Wang & Chan, 2009). The ...

Executive Summary

A strategic analysis of Amazon is employed in this document in order to highlight the major problems that must be considered by the management. The company is considered a leader in electronic retailing globally, however facing a stiff competition from its counterparts as bricks and mortar companies as they are emerging in the contemporary corporate setting and establishing their online presence. Amazon is engaged in finding ways to adequately address the contemporary challenges in the global marketplace in order to maintain its competitive position and subsequently attain a greater share of profits from the international market.

Introduction

Amazon is deemed ...

Industry: Online Retailing in China

Driving forces of change The innovation and technological advancements are considered as the major drivers of change in the retail industry of China. Furthermore, the preferences of the consumers in China are also found as the driving force of change in the retailing in China. The technological advancement is resulted in the trend of online retailing that is increasing day by day and the competition for the offline retailers is increasing (Lam, Li & Gong, 2013).

Relevant economic trends & forecasts

The online retail market of China has become the leading in the top markets of the world. The online industry of retailing in China ...

A Tale of Two Markets: NYC Subway Line

Executive summary of the case The case, “A Tale of Two Markets: NYC Subway Line” speaks about the various business establishment strategies applied by Lynne Lambert during her pursuit to establish her brand NYC Subway Line and the line of products used the New York Lifestyle based positioning. The case describes how Lynne tried to channel across the conventional distribution system of the apparel retail markets and tried to develop retail sales for her products in two different markets, the gift retail, and the apparel retail markets. The case study provides an elaborate detail of the competition, costing, distribution, ...

Opportunities and Risks of Investing in India

Background Information on Indian Business Environment In India, the political setup is governed by stable democratic environment. Eighty percent of its population belongs to the Hindu community. The economy has been posting a growth at a stable rate of seven percent. On an average, starting a new business consumes approximately twenty five to thirty days. Average tariff rate in India is seven percent. The government, when it comes to procurement, give enormous preferences and favours to local firms. Foreign participation is limited and the financial sector of India is dominated by state-owned institutions. Investment climate in India is trader ...

Company Background

Alibaba Company was founded by a former Chinese English teacher, Jack Ma, together with other eighteen partners, in 1999. Way back from its founding, the corporation was sustained by a belief that, within the global and the domestic economy, the internet would allow upcoming businesses to influence technology and business innovations to compete fully and develop. Since the unveiling of the company's first website which assisted entrepreneurs, exporters and manufacturers carry out international sales and marketing processes, the company has taken the lead in mobile and online commerce. In contemporary e-commerce marketing, the corporation and its associates manage and ...

Marketing Research Report for Primark

Introduction The aim this report is to select a clothing retailer and conduct a marketing research for providing the store an opportunity to improve their sales through improving their strategies. For the achievement of the objective, the organization that has been selected as a target fashion retailing business is Primark.

Fashion retail industry overview

Industry analysis is important for organizations; it allows organizations to understand their weaknesses and strengths and provide the chance to realize the gap and capitalize on those gaps. The retailing section of the United Kingdom is an indispensable part of the economy of the UK and fashion is amongst ...

Trend

Mobile shopping is an emerging trend in the retail industry. It involves the use of mobile applications by both customers and retailers to transact the business of buying and selling goods respectively.

Relevance to the Retail Industry

The use of mobile sites to carry out business transaction is relevant to retail industry in that both retailers and customers are being involved in a business transaction using the mobile sites. Therefore, this is an e-commerce transaction in which customer visit retailers mobile sites and do shop without the need to visit the retail stores physically. In most cases, the customers use mobile phone applications offered ...

Introduction

Amazon.com is an American e-commerce and computing company headquartered in Seattle, Washington (Dixit and Sinha, 88). Notably, it is the largest Internet-based retailer in U.S and cloud infrastructure services (IaaS) provider in the world. It deals with a range of products, such as downloads and streaming of MP3, audiobook, software as well as video games among other things. Additionally, it sells furniture and toys as well as produce electronics such as Fire tablets, phones and TV among other consumer products. The founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos has seen the company he founded in 1994 grow in both sales and ...

Zara

Introduction and Background The case of Zara, a famous fashion clothing manufacturer, has been considered with the focus on inventory management and lean operations. The major aim of lean manufacturing (Just-In-Time) is to reduce the cost through having control over inventory and reducing waste. Zara is a fast fashion retailer and fashion changes rapidly. Therefore, it is difficult to estimate the demand for products. Hence, Zara procures the material in bulk and cut the clothes into pieces. However, when fashion changes and demand for any specific design rise, the retailer prepares the dresses on demand (Just-In-Time). In this way, ...

Executive Summary

The possible opportunities of offering educational solutions in the Indian education market are numerous. For this reason, the company plans to enter this market to exploit these opportunities. Specifically, it will sell tablets to the learners to facilitate their learning. The brand consciousness among the Indian consumers is high. The company will, thus, sell high-quality, state-of-the-art tablets to attract the target customers. It will distribute these products through the retailers and online. Additionally, the company will use mobile device advertising and internet advertising to market its products. It will utilize online interactive promotion games and penetration pricing strategy to ...

Management Information System

Introduction The paper is intended to examine the management information systems (MIS) of the companies in the world to understand that the companies are using information system and related disadvantages of using management information system. For this purpose, the study is going to conduct the comparative study of the management information system of two different organizations. The organizations selected for the comparison include Zara and Benetton. Both of these companies are related to fashion industry where, Zara is based in the UK, and Benetton is based in Italy (Pirone, 2010).

Zara and Benetton both are involved in using management ...

Trend

Shopping going social is a recent trend in retail business which involves the use of the social media to between an investor and his or her consumers to transact business.

Relevance to Retailing

Shopping via the social media involves the investor convincing willing consumers to buy the goods. In most cases, the retailer or an investor will display the products or the services he or she offers via his Twitter or Facebook page then comments about them. On the other hand, the followers interested in the products and services displayed in the social media contacts the retailer via the same media and ...

Background

LEGO Group is a Danish, family business. Typical of family enterprises, growth is substantial in early company lifecycle phases, only to plummet – rapidly – few years later. The specific causes for LEGO Group's rapid decline in sales (and hence market share) fall into five strategic areas: (1) macroeconomic variables, (2) brand identity, (3) supply chain management, (4) retailing strategy, and (5) product design & development. As shown in every growth indicator, most notably company's cash flows over 1995 – 2004, LEGO Group has witnessed not only sharp decline in sales growth but also, sadly enough for company's owners and executives, a risk ...

Introduction

The international management is the modern concerns of the companies with the increase in globalization and internationalization. It is an important part of international business. The management in international business includes the similar management aspects include planning, organizing, leading and controlling of multicultural areas of the business (Rozkwitalska & Gdanska, 2009). BUMET International Inc. has recently changed its management for Asian region that includes Japan, Korea, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The executive management has to consider the differences in the culture of these countries before practicing the management. For this purpose, it is important to compare different cultures ...

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Motivation for the Study Identifying the global opportunity and need for online retail business, the research paper has been developed to respond to the particular study of e-retailing. Continuous changes in the behavior of the customer’s in the massive Chinese market, it is essential to make note of how technology and the internet have influenced consumers and retailers interaction. Transforming online retail market in China has indeed encouraged the retail businesses to come and set up e-commerce business to exploit the massive target demographics profile utilizing online retailing. As knowledgeable social customers have spent significant time on internet ...

Industry: Online Retailing in China

Industry: Online Retailing in China

Background

Despite the concerns about China’s decelerating economy, the country has remarkable ratings in the online retailing industry. According to McHugh (2015), a recent report released by Forrester Research established that online sales in China amounted to about $307 billion in 2013. In 2014, the Chinese e-commerce giant, Alibaba Group, generated approximately $25 billion dollars in the largest initial public offer (IPO) in the world’s history (McHugh, 2015). According to Fung Business Intelligence Centre (2013), online retailing is rapidly transforming China’s commercial landscape. Fung Business Intelligence Centre (2013) further notes that consumers ...

Introduction

The recent trends have had a major impact on the UK (United Kingdom) petroleum retail market. The trend impact has been on the number of petrol filling stations (PFS). The UK Petroleum Industry has undergone major changes since 1970. The changes impacted a decline of PFS with a closure of more than seventy-five percent of PFS and a further decline of twenty-nine percent in 2011 although there has been some reduction in the decline in last five years (Study of the UK Petroleum Retail Market., 2012). Independent dealers had a lot of pressure from the hypermarkets, and this has ...

Globalization is the key phenomenon of the last decade. The recession that the world encountered have made many companies guarded when it comes to entering new markets for business, however, emerging markets are the focus of global multinational businesses to enter, India is one of the major emerging power of the global economy and a key focus of brands (Bremmer). Under Armour, the no.2 sportswear brand in US, is entering the Indian market to carve a niche in the sports category of a sports mad country and will compete with primarily Nike and Adidas for a share of the ...

This paper is about the significant trends that are Macy’s strategy to stay competitive in the retailing industry. The technology advancement gave way to one of its marketing strategy which is omnichannel selling. It describes the state of the company and the challenges it is facing with its strong competitors. It also talks about the job cuttings and store closing and how it affects their creditors and the competition to the other retailing industries. The start of the year 2016 is not looking so good for Macy’s. There are series of announcement of store closures and job ...

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Introduction For managers to efficiently perform the many tasks they have been assigned, the managers should work under pressure and with a sense of getting tasks done within a stated deadline. The store managers should also have full involvement in retail trade and the human resource. Additionally, the store managers should have high multitasking abilities, not to mention a good command of authority and interpersonal skills (Madaan, 2009). Store managers in the COLES supermarkets contribute largely to the organization’s goals in that they administer a retail association's staff, client address issues and plan and organize sales, marketing, and ...

International Business

Introduction Globalization has led to major changes in the ways businesses reach out to their customers. With increased competition, firms have to be innovative and continue meeting consumer needs and expectations in a timely manner. Global firms have no choice but to work towards creating a brand that is able to attract more customers and retain the already acquired ones in the global markets. The grocery retail industry is growing as firms strive to reach out to untapped markets to be able to expand their scope and shift away from saturated markets. This implies investing financial resources in advertisements ...

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Introduction Zappos operates as an online retailing enterprise whose mission focuses on providing unmatched customer service as far as shoe retailing is concerned. The company has its techniques and methods of recruiting good fit candidates who can easily integrate into the company’s dynamic culture and uphold its values. Of course being employed at Zappos presents employees with similar of opportunity as being at home with family.

Review/Analysis of the Case

Below are the steps of selecting candidates at Zappos. The initial application is made through the company’s website. Successful applicants are subjected to two interviews. The first one can be conducted ...

Abstract

Service Superiority is important in determining the success of any given service providing organization and influences the level of its competitiveness in the market. A bank in the retail market can outdo its competitors through the provision of excellent services. To retain one's consumers; the quality of service provided must be very palatable to the consumers. This study seeks to establish the relationship between service quality and client loyalty in the retail banking sector in the U.K. This will go a long way in assisting bankers to evaluate and improve the quality of customer service to gain their loyalty ...

Global population data

In the realm of marketing, the market trends have taken a new paradigm through the revolutionary changes that that has seen a new dimension by the improving dynamics in technology (Alon & Vianelli, 2013). People are more interested on buying goods online more than doing the same physically. Therefore, this survey depends on the global data provided on table 7-1, to establish a strategy of defining the market price, the volume of the production to meet the market interest, the way the consumers intend to pay for the products, and the types of platforms the company aims to use in ...