Article Review: United We Stand: The Impact Of Buying Groups

This report is based on the comparison between two organizations that deals with the Retail Company that operates hypermarkets. The report consists of a comparison between Canadian business and Indian business. For this project I have chosen Canada’s Walmart and India’s D’mart the Canadian Walmart is the multinational retail corporation.And Indian D’mart deals within India only.

When it comes to warehouse-style club stores, there are really only four names out there: Costco, Sam’s Club, Wal-Mart and BJ’s. This paper will discuss the Costco and BJ’s. The different type of strategies being utilized by each company, the purpose of the financial statements, their Vertical & Horizontal analysis, how each financial rations ties into the two company’s strategies, Solvency & Performance for each company, a SWOT analysis of each company and finally if the expectations of the stakeholders of each company are being met.

The purpose of this term paper is to discuss the similarities and differences between Talbots Inc. ("Talbots") and Chico's FAS Inc. ("Chico's"). This paper will detail the nature of each company's respective business, past financial performance, and expected future outlook. The paper is divided into two sections. The first section will discuss each company's history, business structure, and future plans independently from each other. The second section will discuss several important financial ratios and provide a detailed analysis comparing the two companies. By the end of this analysis, the reader will have a better understanding of these two retailers and the industry in which they operate.

The case about “The Club Wars” is a study about an establishment which is known by name Sam’s Club. This company was formed in 1976 which operates through an airport hangar converted into a price club in San Diego. By 2002 more than 1000 stores were opened and operated worldwide. These clubs offered their members the lowest possible price and the best merchandise purchasing experience. More companies were coming into the warehouse retail market in the late of 20th century, but two most dominating companies were Sam’s Club and Costco. The target of the companies was to offer the lowest possible prices of supply chain and best deals on the products to their members.

Personally I worked for a video game company called FuncoLand which was purchased by a company called Babbages, which merged with Electronics Boutique. After the merger the name of the company was changed to GameStop which is now the largest video game retailer in the United States. The thing that makes this important to this paper is that when FuncoLand was purchased by Babbages the supply chain changed. The change in the supply chain meant that all orders must be relooked at to insure the same profit levels for products that GameStop enjoyed.

The companies that were chosen for a company analysis include Macy’s, Kohl’s, and Burlington. Since the retail industry has been lagging behind lately, these companies will help determine the prospective financial investment in the retail industry. As Macy’s as our primary company, we chose Kohl’s and Burlington to be the two comparative companies. These companies are comparable due to the same SIC code of 5311 in the subgroup of department stores. These companies offer similar products and services with little differentiation between the three.

Costco Wholesale Corporation (Costco), with its subsidiaries operates membership warehouses that offer its members low prices on a limited selection of branded and selected private-label products in a range of merchandise categories.

From the point of view of the external environment, the effectiveness of organization would gain much more support when the company do the business with their consumers and suppliers, due to the company has provided a wonderful environment for the employees (Businessweek, 2007). Obviously, when the company’s reputations has been known and improved because

US faced a major recession during the year 2007 and this created a major pre-recession impact and post-recession impact on various retail stores. Customers started looking on for deals in retail market as they had less money to spend. The following document is all about the growth of four major retail giants namely the Kohl’s, Target, Walmart, and Macy’s whose growth over the period 2003 – 2013 are compared and contrasted. Walmart was the only company to increase in sales from the all the above companies as they targeted the lower end customers.

In 2010, Costco, Sam's Club and BJ's Wholesale Club were principle competitors in a nearly $125 billion discount warehouse and wholesale club industry. These companies dramatically changed the competitive landscape of retail by offering bargain-priced, broad selection merchandise to the masses through annual memberships. Major and local supermarkets, drugstores, department stores and the like have found it hard to compete with the substantially lower operating costs, advertising expenditures, overhead costs, and volume discounts offered by wholesale clubs. In addition, rapid inventory turnover affords wholesale discount clubs more cash on hand to finance higher percentages of inventory and secure better payment terms from suppliers than competing companies. Thus, chief competition has been within industry. All three warehouses employ a low-cost provider strategy; however, each has also developed ways of differentiating operating tactics and marketing strategies to improve the overall bottom line of the company.

In this paper I will discuss Macy’s Incorporated by analyzing their business level strategies to determine which I think is the most important to their long term success and if I think it is a good choice. I will analyze their corporate level strategies to determine which I think is the most important and whether or not I believe it is a good choice. I will analyze the competitive environment to determine the corporations’ most significant competitor and compare the two companies’ strategies at each level and evaluate which company I think is most likely to succeed in the long term. Once the

The recognized giants in today’s discount retail market are Wal-Mart, Sears, Roebuck and Company, and Target, and this paper compares Wal-Mart and Target. As the competition stiffens to capture market niches, these two organizations are heading for a showdown. This work demonstrates distinctive differences in company culture, promotion within the organization, lofty goal setting, and leadership styles between these two organizations. Although this paper shows a definite competitive advantage for the Wal-Mart organization, it will also demonstrate that Target

Gauri, D. K., Pauler, J. G., & Trivedi, M. (2009). Benchmarking performance in retail chains: an integrated approach. Marketing Science, 28(3), 502+. https://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.liberty.edu:2048/ps/i.do?idGAL

According to this case, and concerning about the strategy that Best Buy has created, retailers can similarly create a retailer-led product strategy to leverage their customer knowledge for product differentiation and to understand what the needs of the customers are; they must discover what satisfies the customer and what not. In addition, the retailer can seek for news partnerships, new stores, new countries and new categories and services in order to increase their net sales and their share market. It’s very important invest in marketing study aiming to discover what the other companies are doing. Besides, with the time, the smaller retailer can increase significantly even more than the

Various heads of these departments alongside a board and an assigned president then made decisions for the organization thereby adding a ‘visible hand’ to the affairs of the organization leading the enterprise in a set direction. Another point to be taken under consideration here is that an industrial enterprise, in addition to the functional units, also expanded in other ways. There were defensive expansion trends i.e. horizontal or vertical expansion, and the offensive ones, i.e. geographical and product diversification. Further evolution in the industrial enterprise led to performance monitoring measures i.e. inclusion of a long-term and innovative corporate strategy with middle and the top management being the sole decision makers. However, with labor intensive industries i.e. printing or textiles, they don`t offer a competitive advantage for the integrated enterprises (Chandler & Montgomery 1979: 71). Therefore, in these cases, mass retailers tend to dominate with large purchasing units while eliminating other intermediaries.