Case Study : Pet Food Warehouse

This report provides a financial quarterly trend analysis for Petsmart, Inc. The U.S.-based company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty retailer of products, services, and solutions for pets in North America. The company offers consumables, which include pet food, treats, and litter; and hardgoods, such as pet supplies and other goods comprising collars, leashes, health care supplies, grooming and beauty aids, toys, apparel, and pet beds and carriers, as well as aquariums and habitats, accessories,

In 2007 the CARE fund ensures that animals who have been turned down or considered untreatable by other shelters receive the proper medical care that they need. The temporary Foster Program is made available as a means for temporary housing for animals whose’ owners may be in homeless shelters. In case of a hurricane, flood, the Disaster Response Program was designed to rescues animals at danger due to a natural disaster. The Be a Lifesaver program was established in and sent staff members to Louisiana and Mississippi to save the animals after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. The VBSPCA is also involved in the preservation of wildlife, and approximately 2,000 orphaned and injured wildlife are received at the shelter annually. Their Wildlife Program includes a network of licensed wildlife rehabilitators, wildlife transporters/rescuers, and referral line volunteers (http://vbspca.com). The VSBPA is also partnered with PetSmart, which is the largest pet retailer of goods and services that pets need. Their vision is to provide Total Lifetime Care to every pet, every parent, every

Walmart faced strong entrenched competition in Canada and Europe. In these developed countries, they couldn’t gain critical mass through internal growth, so they had to acquire companies that have been in the market already. They acquired Woolco, a money losing operation, applied many of the American business practices, and within a few years, the Canadian operations were successful. They have 317 stores, and they account for more than 35 percent of the Canadian discount and department store market. In Europe, Walmart entered Germany by acquiring the Wertkauf hypermarket chain in 1998 and entered the UK by acquiring the 229-store ASDA group. They the leader and are now losing ground to Tesco. A major problem for Walmart in the European market is overexpansion. Accompanied with the famous “Always low prices” approach, they met large resistance from the competition and regulators. Large price wars began because Walmart was accused of underselling the competition. They struggled to build a strong competitive base in German losing more than $1 billion. They were unable to create a competitive advantage, so they sold their operations to a competitor, Metro. They also faced problems in Korea, so

Walmart Corporation was open in 1962 by Sam Walton. The first Walmart was open in Roger, Arkansas to save money or better people life and live a better. Walmart has over 8,800 stores sites in 15 countries with 2.2million employees worldwide. Bentonville, Arkansas has the headquarters and distribution center of Walmart. The discount departs stores are known as the original stores.

The Wal-Mart company was established on July 2, 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas (History Timeline). The company was based on the vision of Sam Walton, who believed in giving his customers the lowest prices, anytime, anywhere. By 1967 the Walton family owned 27 different stores, and in 1969 they officially incorporated, becoming Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Just a year later in 1970 Wal-Mart went National, proving the wide spread appeal of Sam Walton's beliefs (History). This same year Wal-Mart became a publicly traded company, with its first shares priced at 16.50. A short year later the company was listed in The New York Stock Exchange (History Timeline). The 80's were a major success for this company. In 1983 the first Sams Club opened, this was and still is a store that sells product in bulk to small businesses and individuals. In 1988 the first Wal-Mart Super center opened. The Super center combined a full scale supermarket with general merchandise to create one stop shopping convenience (History). In 1992 the company suffered a hard hit when Sam Walton passed away at the age of 74. Although they lost the man at the heart of the company they were determined to carry on with his vision, and so they did. In 1996 they opened their first stores in China (History Timeline). By 2002 they reach the top of the Fortune 500 ranking of Americas largest companies. In 2012 Wal-Mart celebrated 50 successful years of business. Today the company employs 2.2 million associates worldwide and serves

PetSmart has been in operation since 1987 with a mission to serve pet owners, termed "pet parents" by the company across multiple product and service platforms (PetSmart.com.PetSmart Corporate: Company Overview. 2012). PetSmart's goal is to capture an ever increasing share of the dynamic pet market, which has 62% of households in the United States owning a pet, equating to more than 71 million homes" (PetSmart.com. Investor Relations. Annual Report. 2010); by providing pet owners differentiated choices and value across key categories: "food and treats, supplies and

Petco originally known as UPCO was started in 1965 as a mail-order veterinary supply business in San Diego, California. The name changed from UPCO to Petco in the late 1970s and began to expand their business. Their first store was established in Tigard, Oregon in 1980. Latter in the late 1980s the company had a major growth in retail when Petco acquired two pet supply chains, WellPoint and the Pet Department allowing them to expand their products. This allowed them to triple there store numbers from forty to one hundred and thirty expanding from Oregon to Washington and Texas. After that their store in Santa Monica California started selling fish and many other animals soon followed.

Petsmart is a specialty retailer of pet products and services. They provide food and products, and offer services such as grooming, boarding, doggie day damp, day care, training and adoptions. The company employs about 53,000 associates and operates 1,477 stores in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada. (Company Information, 2010). Petsmart also does their part in the area of sustainability. The following will discuss what the company is doing in the areas of social sustainability and environmental sustainability. Then will discuss how their mission statement and website tie into their sustainability efforts. And finally, the following will give suggestions on how to improvement their sustainability effort.

NCM has never owned a facility to store donated commodity; they have always relied on the donor to house the commodity to be donated. Fawn Grove Church of the Nazarene used the church building until a 108,000 square foot warehouse was built in 2001. NCM contributed funds toward the warehouse, but it was owned by the Fawn Grove Church. The commodity inside the warehouse belonged to NCM, and NCM employed a warehouse manager, an office assistant, and a packing assistant to maintain the warehouse and the commodity received. John Borgal, warehouse manager, was responsible for keeping the warehouse storage inventoried and well organized. I was able to visit the warehouse on several occasions and provided John with suggestions for improvement.

The team approach promoted strong corporate culture and a work environment where team members could flourish, build a career, and reach their highest potential. Team members are motivated and inspired by Whole Foods’ strategic vision. The process for bringing in a new team member was thorough and the whole team at a store is involved. Team leaders at each store receive a salary and a possible bonus based on EVA (Economic Value Added), a system Whole Foods used to measure performance. In 2004, 86% of employees said they enjoyed their job and 82% felt empowered to do their best work at Whole Foods Markets. Whole Foods Markets offered gain-sharing programs to reward team members according to the store’s contribution to Whole Foods operating profit (additional 5-7% of team members wages). Whole Foods encouraged stock ownership through three programs: A team member stock option plan (based on job performance and length of time employed at Whole Foods), a team member stock purchase plan (based on purchasing stock at 95% of market price), and a team member 401 (k) plan. To maintain high customer service all team members are continuously evaluated and take place in competitions against other Whole Foods Markets in that region. In 2007, around 750 team members were on the EVA-based incentive compensation program. EVA calculations were used to measure profitability and encouraged and motivated team members to succeed.

It was great speaking with you yesterday at the career fair! You answered nearly all of my questions regarding Petsmart's internship program and application process. As promised, I attached my résumé to this email. Please let me know if there is any more information you need for my application.

Founded in 2006, Pet Store Unlimited is an online retailer of pet supplies and training equipment. They are dedicated to providing pet owners with a one stop shop for all their pet supply needs at affordable prices.

Pestsmart is the largest specilalty pet retailer in the Unites State. It has more than 1160 brick-and-mortar pet stores in the U.S. It is a company that supplies pet accessories and also provides grooming, training, treatment, overnight care, and day care services for pets. The name petsmart suggests that the company keeps ones pet smart and groomed which is one of the services that the company offers. The company ensures the wellbeing of pets that are brought at their stores by taking care of them and ensuring that they are housed in healthy environments when their owners leave them over the night or during the day. PetSmart has some strong competitors that are Petco, Wal-Mart, and Target.

Pet Smart is one of the most successful pet retailers today. PetSmart is smart because it maintains a clear competitive advantage from both a functional and emotional perspective. Many competitors have tried to beat pet smart. Pet Smart has a strong competitive advantage against competitors. PetSmart differentiates from competitors by offering products and services in one store location for pet owners, and satisfying customers’ needs in terms of providing unique, rich, and a wide variety of products for its consumers. Overall, PetSmart has positioned itself as one of the top pet retailers in the current market. PetSmart is also in a unique competitive position since its direct competitors are local pet stores and its in-direct competitors are

As we can see they have poor employees and service, which takes away from the business because people rather not go to a place like that. This becomes a major threat because when you have other stores like Amazon, Wal-Mart, Costco, where there are all the same products sold and maybe even at better prices, people are going to want to go to there. These other major stores definitely attract people because they have low prices and keep up with people’s demands. Wal-Mart is even known to match competitors prices and Amazon usually always offers free shipping and low prices. When you see other stores that do better you go to them. You choose places where you are most