Family Dollar was established in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1959 by a 21 year old entrepreneur named Leon Levine. He was interested in operating a low-overhead, self-service retail store. Levine’s main goal was to offer a variety of high quality merchandise to customers for under $2.00 (Family Dollar: History). If everything in the store wasn’t a dollar to begin with why did he name the store Family DOLLAR? The fact is that any person can be influenced in a different way just by the way someone words a sentence or phrase. A prime example of this is a Family Dollar store. The problem is that Family Dollar doesn’t sale everything in their store for a dollar, like a Dollar Tree does. Dollar Tree is seen to be one of the very few true
Our group performed an analysis of Dollar General’s external and internal environment, which included a Porters Five Forces breakdown. Those findings as well as analysis on the company’s financial statements formed the basis for our recommendations. We considered several alternative growth strategies for Dollar General to implement. Those strategies are, international expansion, continued domestic expansion, internal improvements, extending services, and taking the company private. We concluded that the most beneficial direction for the company is to go private thereby relieving pressure to meet short-term objectives. We also believe that Dollar General can
Pam and Susan’s is a chain of discount department stores. There are currently 250 stores, mostly located throughout the South. As the company has grown and wants to expand, Pam and Susan’s is in the search of the most profitable location for the new stores. Store locations decisions are based upon estimates of sales potential. The company is currently considering two sites A and B for the next store opening. Using the information gathered on demographics and economic trading zones, size, composition and sales of the 250 existing stores we will built a regression model to provide the best estimate of sales from the two sites and recommend the most profitable one for the next store opening.
The youth of Ramona has a significant impact on the town. With town shops closing every Friday night to cheer on the Ramona Bulldawgs, there is no uncertainty that Ramona is just one big family community that welcomes visitors with a keen smile.
“Most cities our size have a 2% sales tax, if we raised it to 2% then it would put us even with all the other cities in the area,” said Million. “Individually I don’t think that would have a great impact on the individual citizens.”
Thank you for your post. The reason I chose to include the cases are to show how the issue of a business owner refusing sexuality is becoming popular, and is being argued in court more. Many business owners are actually fine with giving their services to one of the opposite sex, however when that service is extended that goes against their beliefs, values, or morals then they have a problem with providing. Such as the case that I mentioned above, the State of Washington v. Arlene’s Flowers, where the florist served the couple many times but when asked provide a service for their wedding she refused as it goes against her faith. How do you propose we find a solution for this issue?
You (The Reader), may be asking yourself “How will the citizens of America transact to the populace $0.01 to $0.04?”. Which is an excellent question with an exceeded amount of answers. However, the correct answer is; you'll not, you round to the nearest $0.05, $0.10, or $1.00. Since prices went up the government could lower tax rate in your city in effect of your paying that tiny bit extra money would balance out the lowered tax rate. If America did not exclude the
On 02-01-2017 at approximately 0210 hours, I contacted Justin Gipson at Harper and Ida Street as the result of a traffic stop (running a red light at Business Highway 67 and Highway PP). An operator check through dispatch revealed and confirmed an outstanding warrant through the Poplar Bluff Municipal Court on Justin.
Pete’s Thriftway and its employees are required to stock and dispense “morning after” pills which are against the family’s moral code. As a part of a complete argument, the family states that according to the Due Process Clause of the Constitution the pharmacy should be able to decline dispensing the drugs and refer the patients to another pharmacy.
There are several attended audiences for this specific picture. The one audience is the businessmen that are putting up the signs; they see the kind of community it is, and they see where their businesses are about to be operating at. They probably feel positive about this action because they probably feel as if they are improving the economy of this specific area. The workers for the businessmen are the next people this sign is attended for, they can see what they’re taking down and what they about to be constructing to ‘improve’ the surrounding area. They probably do not display any type of emotion because this is their job to take down, and reconstruct new buildings all the time. The workers will probably do not think about how these luxury condos will affect the nearby families. However, on the side note they are probably okay with doing this job because it is helping them support their own families. The locals are another audience that is attended for this picture, they will be able to connect with this because they will know what’s going on in their community. This action is going to affect the rest of their lives and it will make them think about if they need to find a new home out of the community or try to stay and keep up with newly growing economy. This can affect their lives because they might not have the resources to move so then if the surrounding property taxes, mortgage, and other housing costs go up
1971 to over 800 stores located in 46 states and Puerto Rico. This industry is
Macy’s has been around for 100 years, currently operating over 700 stores nationwide, and exploring the idea of expanding globally. A company that has that much experience, assets, and capitals are not likely to be bankrupted. With that being said, the current path and strategy that Macy’s is taking now is slowly killing the company. Their revenue stream has been decreasing to be multiple reasons, controllable and non-controllable. Macy’s should redesign their strategy to reach new markets because their current one is not responding to them as much. As many selections as there are in Macy’s, I think that they should try and carry more at a cheaper rate to encourage the loyal customers for that brand to go to Macy’s. I think the lead time for
With respect to my staffing adjustments, those changes were aimed at increasing revenue. Increasing customer satisfaction and the rate at which they were served provided the coffee shop with increased revenues from more sales.
Red Robin is totally in on the Christmas spirit of giving. As a gimmick and gift to their patrons, the restaurant chain gave away free burgers to people who are fortunate enough to have Christmas-y names. Anyone named Christopher, Christine, Nicole, and Nicholas are all in on the giveaway which happened on Thursday, Fox 9 reported. The gift-giving was effective for only one day.
higher initial rate decreasing with increased sales is desirable. Our target tax rate is 5%,