INTEREST RISK32 SOLVENCY RISK33 COMPETITORS ANALYSIS34 SWOT ANALYSIS37 RECOMMENDATIONS38 BIBLIOGRAPHY39 INTRODUCTION Walmart Stores‚ Inc. (WMT) is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large discount department stores and a chain of warehouse stores. Walmart operates more than 8‚692 retail units across three business segments of retail stores worldwide that offer a wide array of general merchandise including groceries‚ apparel‚ electronics‚ and small appliances. In addition
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Wal-Mart Stores has successfully been operated as a discount store according to their "Everyday Low Price" philosophy since 1970. Exhibit 1 shows analysis of Wal-Mart’s relative costs of 1984. In order to compare in terms of the discount industry‚ we can use the record of Wal-Mart without Sam’s. The gross margin of Wal-Mart was lower than that of the discount industry. The income of Wal-Mart‚ however‚ was larger than that of the discount industry because the selling general and administration expenses
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Sears‚ Roebuck and Co. vs Wal-Mart Stores Case Background Sears‚ Roebuck and Co. Wal-Mart Stores Started as a company dealing in catalogue sales Diversification into 3 types of business – Retail‚ Service and Credit Retail store types – Full line stores‚ Auto stores‚ Home and lifestyle stores Started as a franchisee type variety store Primarily Retail business – Discount stores‚ Supercenters‚ Sam’s club warehouses Focus on price conscious consumers Comparison of Retail Strategy
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Cash Discount on Sales Cash discount is the discount offered by seller for paying cash early. Cash discount is only offered on credit sales where the customers do not pay at the time of sale but promise to pay latter. There are two methods of accounting for sales that offer cash discounts; the gross method and the net method. These two methods are explained with the help of the following example: Example Suppose Company A sells certain goods at a price of $4‚400 with terms of payment
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Case Study „Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc.“ MLA1 International Business and Management Introduction Wal-Mart is one of the world’s largest companies and is operating in discount retailing. Its first stores were opened in 1962 in small towns because Wal-Mart’s founder Sam Walton who died in 1992 had the idea that these towns were large enough to support one discount retailer‚ but not two. The main reason for Wal-Mart’s leading position in the market has always been based on its ability to offer products
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INTRODUCTION Dollar General is an aggressive‚ competitor in the deep discount retail industry. Recent annual sales figures totaling $6.9 billion across 29 states (close to 7‚000 stores) has placed the chain at the top of the dollar store category of discount retailers‚ surpassing chains Family Dollar‚ Fred’s and Dollar Tree. The company also competes aggressively with chains such as Wal-Mart‚ Kmart‚ CVS and Rite Aid. The store currently offers a product line of general merchandise that includes
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“What I Heard at the Discount Department Store” ─David Budbill Q: How soon do you understand that a character‚ other than the poet‚ speaks this poem? What is her tone and how do you know it? In David Budbill’s poem‚ “What I Heard at the Discount Department Store”‚ it is evident by line six that someone other than the poet speaks this poem. The poem starts off in first person. The character is an angry mother “dealing” with her young child in a discount department store. Stop
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Case 1: Pelican Stores Pelican stores‚ a division of National Clothing‚ is a chain of women’s apparel stores operating throughout the country. The chain recently ran a promotion in which discount coupons were sent to customers of other National Clothing stores. Data collected for sample of 100 in-store credit card transactions at Pelican Stores during one day while the promotion was running are contained in the file named “data pelican stores. The propriety card method of payment refers to charges
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Dollar Tree Inc. is a chain of discount variety stores that sells an assortment of items for $1 or less. Dollar Tree Inc. uses a point-of-sale inventory scanning system. A point-of-sale inventory system is a fully automated‚ computerized inventory reordering system. The system collects daily merchandise sales and other transactions to prepare sales and inventory reports. The information that is obtained provides information on product sales allowing stores to order the products customers want
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Walton‚ Wal-Mart has grown to be the largest discount retail chain in the world. Wal-Mart currently has over 6‚500 thousand stores in 14 different countries‚ 1.8 million plus associates and nets sales this last quarter of over 85 billion dollars‚ an increase of 8.3 percent (walmart.com). The only other corporation larger than Wal-Mart to date is Exxon Mobile. So how does Wal-Mart keep their competitive advantage and sustain their position in discount retailing?Historically Wal-Mart main competitive
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