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For example if you take Black Friday sale on 2009, Amazon isn't a huge threat to Walmart, accounting for just 3.3 percent of retail sales. Nonetheless, while online sales currently make up less than 5 percent of all retail sales, analysts expect that to rise up to 15-20 percent over the next decade.

​New entrants must also consider how well existing companies have mastered the art of converting combining customer and third party seller data together, and converting it into useful information for future customers. Customers are able to see previous customer reviews and seller ratings without even meeting the seller. The transparency of sellers, provide customers with the comfort of knowing what type of seller they are dealing with before a transaction even occurs. New entrants to the industry would not be able to provide potential customers with the same transparency seller transparency that an existing seller would be able to (eBay, 2010).

5. (TCO 1) You own a hardware store in the small town where you live. A big-box, multiline competitor has just opened. You see the following as your advantages of maintaining

Retail industry sector encompasses companies and individuals that are engaged in selling products to consumers. As the biggest economy in the world, retail industry in the U.S. is one of the biggest industries in the world with total sales of nearly $5 trillion in 2016 as per www.census.gov. National retail foundation’s report mentions retail industry as the largest private sector employer in the United states with about 15 million people working in the industry. Retail industry in the united states comprises brick and mortar stores and a growing e-commerce sector.

Accordingly, to reach the scale of revenue required would mean increasing the number of transactions per month a few folds from 2,000 to 8,000 transactions. Moreover this would require not only increase in the marketing of the existing 2,000 products listed on the store, but a significant increase in the breadth of product offerings. If the number of vendors was not going to increase the current process might continue be manageable, nevertheless one of the Store’s strategies is to limit the number of products from each vendor to only 20, hence requiring an increase in the number of vendors fourfold which is relative to the increase in revenue.

Services, Customer focus, Growth platforms, and Globalization. Immelt implemented a six part growth process, shown in Figure 3 below.

5. (TCO 1) You own a hardware store in the small town where you live. A big-box, multiline competitor has just opened. You see the following as your advantages of maintaining your market share

Higher value can attract more customers or increase the profit margin for the value add benefit.

The retail industry has always been a large portion of the U.S. economy. In 2012, the industry had nearly one million stores and accounted for four trillion dollars in revenue. An estimated two-thirds of the U.S. GDP

1. In the last five years the growth in sales for the company has been around 10% per annum, except for the 1997, the growth was 18.78%. In the case, nothing is mentioned that company has made any drastic changes in its strategy to grow faster. In such a scenario, projected a consistent growth of 20% per annum for the next 5 years is too optimistic.

The facility is collaborating closely with the patient?s optometrists who serve as the primary care doctors. If a surgery is necessitated, the doctor of optometry (OD) will then direct the patients to the expertise of the eye surgeons of PCLI to address specialized treatments. In Spokane alone, they have built a strong network of about 150 family optometrists. For a period of time, PCLI has managed their operations with eleven satellite clinics, seven surgeons, several surgical assistants, patient counselors and a resident physician at every clinic (Swayne, et al., 2013). However, due to continued growth in the industry with significant market potential, stiffer competition is slowly escalating. In fact, intense rivalry from other laser eye surgery centers in Canada as well as other larger laser eye care centers in the nation who are charging less for Lasik eye surgery are becoming a huge challenge for PCLI. The facility is very much aware that there is an enormous possibility that they will lose a huge number of patients to the aforementioned competitors. With that, there is an intense pressure to reduce overhead costs to survive in a competitive landscape. It is imperative for the facility to reevaluate its market efforts and its services operations process and focus on new management strategy, capacity utilization, cost control and marketing

It would only make sense that the company is paying attention to what their customers need, want, and think. If the company is up for it, they will create a loyal customer and a good sector in the marketplace in regards to their products.

However, there are numerous economies of scale. Large retailers own most of the market share and power this industry. As mentioned previously the 50 largest companies own 65% of the market share. The main reasons for this is that there are several economies of scale and absolute cost advantages for the larger firms. This is one of the reasons there have been numerous mergers and acquisitions in the past two decades, which have formed large conglomerates.

A comparable industry I have determined would be the movie sales and rental industry. The pricing of my items also will need to be compared to other larger retailers to ensure I am remaining within the industry average selling price, and the industry trade price.

customers, which should have allowed Timken to better serve existing clients at a lower cost