Hi Kristy's Department Store Case Study

Urban Outfitters is a popular clothing and accessory store that was founded in 1970, and generates success from the type of merchandise it retails, as well as through the contemporary culture and ethos that it promotes to its customers. The store has stated that it is targeted towards a specific audience that ranges from eighteen to thirty years old, who are well “educated, [and] urban-minded” (“Urban Outfitters”). Urban Outfitters offers a specific shopping experience that is unique to its store, because it focuses on a well-defined audience that is attracted by its modern environment and trendy clothes. Many individuals are unconsciously lured into the store first by the placement of the store itself, then by what the consumer can see in the front windows, and lastly by the specific and well thought out placement of the store’s merchandise. It is evident that the theories regarding retail geography defined by Paco Underhill, including the stores location, the decompression zone, the invariant right, destination items, the

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An organization that comes to mind would be Saks Fifth Avenue. That company made so many changes that your head would spin. I was a supervisor at their call center and I remember that they wanted the associates to learn the five step buying process. So they put them as well as management through a training course that taught the five step process as well as abruptly teaching them a new system that they expected them to basically learn in that day and implement it the next day. Upper management did a great job teaching their supervisors and team leaders because we got adequate training however for the associates they were pretty much thrown out to wolves and expected to know all the material. See upper management failed to clarify disconfirming

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.

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JCPenny was founded in April 1902 by James Cash Penny. The objective of JC Pennys is simple, to provide products to meet each and everyone’s’ needs. The stores have switch to promoting their house brands more than promoting brands that a shopper can get elsewhere. By promoting their house brands, JCPennys feels like they can increase sales because a shopper would have to go to Pennys to get those brands. The company is endorsing what they refer to as the omnichannel. This is the cohesiveness between stores and online to increase the ease of shopping for the consumer. Now the financial objectives are as follows,” the company provided financial performance estimates for the 2017-2019 period, as follows: Compounded annual comparable sales growth anticipated to be 3.0 %; Gross margin is expected to improve 75-100 basis points; Additional SG&A expense leverage of 215-240 basis points; Net income is expected to be between $450-500M by 2019; Earnings per share of $1.40-1.55 by 2019.” (JCPenny, 2016) I know that the company has tried many times to create a new image because they are struggling to meet the demand of the modern shopper. These latest objectives I

On July 07, 2016, AP closed an internal merchandise case theft at the Bay Sherbrooke store for a value of $429.99. On Monday July 4, 2016, AP saw the associate taking a men’s shirt and bringing it to the jewelry counter and concealed the merchandise in a jewelry cabinet. Next day AP checked for the merchandise but it was no longer present. On Wednesday AP did a live surveillance and saw the associate bringing ladies wear merchandise to her counter, removed the hard tags, and put the merchandise into another retailer (Simmons) bag. During her lunch break she took the Simmons bags and left the store with without paying for the merchandise in the bag. AP did the parcel check and discovered the merchandise and the associate admitted immediately

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Critically analyze the organization from the systems approach. You should consider the inputs, transformation and output elements of the operation and consider how the system creates value.

American Apparel, is an American multi-national clothing manufacturer, distributor and retailer since 1988based in Los Angeles, California. Dov Charney, a Canadian business man was a founder and former CEO of the company. He was involved in nearly every part of the business process from design and manufacturing to marketing. The Ernst & Young named Charney Entrepreneur of the Year in 2004. He was also termed "Man of the Year" by various fashion

Smart phones are allowing customers to shop with their phones inside stores; credit cards are accepted via phones vs. cash registers. Technology brings online shopping vs. in store shopping. And, advertising is popping up on smart phones as electronic messages as customers shop based on their location. Service is defiantly the key to keep a customer coming into a department store.

The Family Store is a chain of 10 regional convenience stores owned and managed by three brothers, Garrett, George, and Gavin VanDoer. They have been in business for over 25 years together. The entire senior executive, management team, and even store managers are all family members. The senior executive includes Garrett, the president and major shareholder, Garrett’s daughter Marielle is senior vice president of finance and Gavin’s son Frankie is senior vice president of marketing and retail sales (Sniderman, Bulmash, Nelson, & Quick, 2006, p.192). This paper will discuss the present barriers to effective communication, non-defensive feedback from employee and customer surveys to senior executives, examples of

This work is an introduction to the fashion industry of Pakistan which has made quite a lot of progress in just a few years. Ten to fifteen years from now, this industry was still unknown to actually exist to the masses. Later with the formation of fashion councils and education centers under the enthusiastic few who wanted to make a difference and promulgate this very institution of fashion, did the very fashion industry took its concrete contour from the old tailor culture that formerly existed. Today it is one of the most progressing industries in the country.