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In what ways does Trader Joe's demonstrate the importance of each responsibility in the management process—planning, organizing, leading, and controlling?

Sam’s Club products will be issued directly to consumers; however, the products will be distributed through TAGG Logistics distributes and fulfills, which is a diversity of bulk products distributed to Sam’s Club stores nationally. TAGG Logistics works with each specific client to guarantee EDI standards and shipping making sure all necessities are met using a planned distribution system. TAGG, uses knowledge and awareness of Sam’s Club’s routing guide and receiving procedures to guarantee all product labeling and documentation is appropriate and all advanced shipping notifications (ASNs), pallet configurations, and/or delivery appointments are accurate ("Sam's Club Order Fulfillment & Distribution | TAGG Logistics").

Wal-Mart is an American multinational retail corporation and one of the leading discount department retail stores (Wikipedia). It is the highest- grossing company in the United States (Fortune 2008a), and is by far one of the most successful companies worldwide. Wal-Mart offers a place to buy the majority of our goods under one roof like electronics, furniture, clothing, pharmacy, sports, food, books etc. Wal-Mart sells good at lower price than the others and this is even shown by its slogan “save money, live better”.  It drives out smaller and sometimes even the expensive stores out of business due to its lower prices. Wal-Mart provides jobs for thousands of

Cooper, D., & Schindler, P. (2012). Business research methods (Twelfth ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Irwin.

The Association of Retail technology standards, the technology standards division of the National Retail Federation, declared the expansion of a few noticeable organizations to its developing membership. ARTS, the chief retail technology association with members situated the world over, was built up in 1993 to create instructive materials, best practices and innovation principles to empower fast and successful organization of IT inside of retail. Driving retailers who have joined ARTS as of late incorporate Cost-co Wholesale, one of the biggest retailers in the nation, working as a chain of distribution centers offering selective stock and gloating 592 U.S and world-wide store areas. (Allen, 2011)

There are a lot of restaurants in Arizona but the most American restaurants I would eat it every day is IN-N-OUT. This restaurant doesn’t exist in all of the states in the US. There are few and you can find this restaurant in states such as Arizona, California and most of the locations are in California and also you can find this restaurant in Texas. IN-N-OUT is an American restaurant and the decoration of the American style atmosphere such as the tables are in red and the chairs are made from steel or aluminum. If anyone entered this restaurant, he will know that this restaurant is American from the decoration and the clothes of the waiters. IN-N-OUT isn’t an expensive restaurant, everyone can eat from it even the people that don’t have that

Today’s consumer has multiple options to fill their shopping needs. They have the option to shop at online retailers, big box and mass merchant stores, department stores, smaller chain stores, individual kiosk, and other local or international convenient stores to fill their shopping needs. Regardless of the retailer that a consumer chooses, all retailers aim to satisfy their shoppers’ needs and strive to be the best in the business. In order to adequately and successfully do this, retailers must develop a firm mission, vision, and have core values for how they will operate as a retailer to meet the frequently changing demands of its consumer base.

Applebee’s in Mobile, Alabama is quite the popular chain restaurant. This venue has an extensive menu and even has late night discounts on food. Televisions are strategically placed so that patrons can watch different games when seated at the bar. This Applebee’s is open every day for lunch and dinner. It is also kid friendly.

Taco Bell's Success Did Taco Bell’s success result from a top down or bottom-up approach to change? What situations drove this change, and what leadership approach did John Martin use? What was the old (previous) leadership style and what was its limitation? • Taco Bell’s success resulted from a top down approach to change. Along with the new organizational structure came the job position of Market Manager.

In order to make this concept real, Staples has to build competitive advantage through finding the right management team who are experienced in this area, looking for the right location to open their stores in order to be close to the target customers, deciding on how many staffs needed in a store to be effective, establishing a distribution channel where suppliers will cooperate according to their operations, choosing the selection of the product required and the amount inventory to keep, managing costs and be efficient all the time, and communicating their value to the target customers. A key organizational capability that Staples realizes instantly is to have an information system that can help them to manage the process better in place, which greatly contributes to increase Staples' efficiency. Such system is able to help Staples to get the right merchandise mix in order to be profitable through monitoring customers' needs, and attain low cost structure by making sure that the inventories turnover accordingly. In sum, Staples is successful in building most of its intangible and tangible asset and develop organizational capability

The Spanish retail chain Zara has unique supply chain management practices that enable it to gain a competitive advantage over other fashion retailers in the industry. Zara’s rapid response time enables the firm to quickly respond to changing fashions while deliberately under producing products. This strategy, which is supported by competencies in logistic management, design and information systems, allows the company to maintain less inventory and higher profit margins and is a key factor to Zara’s success. The firm should continue to add value by seeking new opportunities to expand in the retail market and maintain their sustainable growth.

In-N-Out has a great customer satisfaction. They provide great quality throughout the restaurant by not changing their venue and supporting what the customers want. The quality the In-N-Out is that the “food is fresh, burgers are made from 100 percent pure beef and that there are no additives, fillers, or preservatives” (P.523 Appendix 1 Case). Customers feel as they are eating “the best burger they’ve ever had” and are feeling an at home vibe, since it’s a family owned restaurant. So overall In-N-Out provides great quality.

The market environment consists of both the macro environment and the micro environment. On macro environment the firm need to follow it and they can’t to control it. It consist variety of external factors that is economic, social, political, legal and technological. In the macro environment the firm should analyze national political issues, culture and climate, key macroeconomic conditions, health and indicators (such as economic growth, inflation, unemployment, etc.), social trends/attitudes, and the nature of technology's impact on its society and the business processes within the society. The microenvironment refers to the internal environment of the company such as consumer/customer, Supplier, competitors, the media (public) and in

Local Need: The customers that the store will target are the local residents and the Lheidli T'enneh First Nation members. The area has no other such convenience store in an 8 block radius, local residents’ grocery needs being filled by Overwaitea Foods, Safeway, or PGA Food Market, all in the town of Prince George.

Consumers have many choices when deciding where to purchase their goods. While retailer managers are deciding how to win the consumer’s business and increase revenue, they are also constantly trying to figure out ways to reduce costs. Technology helps retail managers improve areas of inventory and supply chain management as well as customer satisfaction and loss prevention (Green, 2002). This paper explains how technology