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Opportunities: Walmart can venture into other countries and form a global relationship with other companies. The retailer could learn from other companies and offer home delivery for their internet sales. Walmart could also venture into the convenience store market to save consumers money. Threats: Threats that Walmart face includes the resistance of smaller local vendors that dislike the large retailer coming into their town and taking the business. Competition from similar businesses is also likely

young staff * Certain new rules and regulation when it comes to customer service. * To take over, merge with, or form strategic alliances with other global retailers, focusing on specific markets. Example – bharti- Wal-Mart in India. * The stores currently only trade in a relative small number of countries. Therefore there are tremendous opportunities for future business in expanding consumer markets. *    According to me there are very few threats to Wal-Mart but I have mentioned the

company in the retail in the world. The company was much larger than its competitors in the United States - Sears Roebuck, Kmart, JC Penney and Nordstrom combined. In 2002, Wal-Mart operates more than 3,500 discount stores, Supercenters and Sam's Clubs in United States and over 1,170 stores in major countries around the world. The company also sells products online via the website, www.walmart.com. Wal-Mart is one of the largest private employers in the world, with the use of force about 1.28 million

high among Japanese consumers. “Toshifumi Suzuki, Chairman and CEO of Seven & I Holding” Established in 1974 as a small licensee of 7-Eleven, Inc., Seven-Eleven Japan grew to become the leading convenience store in Japan by 2005 in terms of operating income and number of stores. They emphasize on fresh merchandise, innovative inventory management techniques, and numerous technological improvements. They growth

Suppliers: Relied on independent third parties to manufacture the majority of their clothing. Mainly located in Asia, the Middle East, and South America Supplier Bargaining Power: Strong Rivalry among Competing Sellers: Gap Inc., TJX Companies, Ross Stores, Abercrombie and Fitch. Rivalry: Strong New Entrants: Uniqlo from Japan, H&M from Sweden, Zara from Spain (focused on youth 18-24). Extremely slim profit margins Threat: Weak Takeaways: * Not very attractive because of slim profit

the rest of the music industry? Sales of records have plunged and ITunes along with illegal music downloading is to blame. Garrett 4 The IPod has given a new meaning to the world “stealing”. Years ago, stealing music meant physically going to the store and stealing the record. In this day in age, it is hard to control people from stealing music on the Internet. File sharing and Digital Media make downloading music illegally more widespread. Artists, along with many other people in the music industry

upscale specialty food store located in the San Diego metropolitan area” (Kudler Fine Foods, 2011) that needs to enhance its marketing

cope with the stress in her life by preparing gourmet meals and shopping for gourmet items. With no upscale gourmet food stores in her area she decided to open her own. She left her very successful day job and started a chain of Kudler Fine Food Stores. Kudler Fine Foods is an upscale store with three locations in the San Diego area, each in high-end shopping centers. The stores offer a fine selection of baked goods, pastries, fresh produce, meats, seafood, packaged goods, cheeses, and other specialty

way they would look on your computer. Technology has also changed the way we use our phones such as what we put on and are able to store. Many users did not like the fact that when they put things on their phone and then switched to a new one they would lose everything they had previously had and had to start all over again. With the Apple products, users can store and backup their information at any time on a new device within the apple family. Technology within Apple continues to amaze their

problem is that advertising and growth can lead to an end of the “quirkiness” that is currently Trader Joe’s strongest attribute. Already, a bit of authenticity from the original stores has slipped away from expansion. A former employee, as shown in the case study, said “In the early days we never tried to be a neighborhood store.”1 There is no question that trying to incorporate more traditional advertising and thus, competing with large grocery retailers is the wrong direction for the company. More