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Purpose Statement: To try to persuade this audience to boycott Black Friday. Thesis statement: Black Friday has turned a family holiday shopping tradition into a bizarre corporate greed competition that has resulted in unnecessary violence, and is now taking over a nationally recognized holiday. Introduction Attention Getter: Black Friday! The BEST deal! Or, is it really worth it? More importantly, why should we boycott it? Overview of Main Points: Today I’m going to talk about Black Friday. I’m

working class. The different customer segments divide the marketing strategies of these two retailing business. For example, it affects the price making and merchandise selecting in stores. 2. A discount retailer who is strictly based on low price, Wal-Mart's "everyday low price" philosophy is running their stores quite successfully. In addition, Contrasts with other small company and retailing business, Wal-mart uses a strategy of odd number pricing. This strategy has been tested and has proven

AutoZone is not immune to economic downturn. In addition, when there is less money in the marketplace in general, all suffer, even AutoZone, since consumers need money to buy auto parts. If the company takes its eye off the ball with respect to its center retail operation, it risks ceding ground to its rivals. AutoZone has responded to changes in its macro environment by doing lots of things. One of the most notable changes is its commercial industry that caters to repair shops they buy items in

introduction of the iPod, hitting $320 million in June of 2005 (Robbins & Judge, 2009). In general, every successful Apple product has benefited brand recognition and perception and invigorated the sales of other product lines, even those not directly related to it. By the end of 2005, Apple had sold approximately 22 million iPod units and more than half a billion individual song downloads through its music store, iTunes (George & Jones, 2008). Weaknesses Generally, there is also a potential downside

the country scrambling to find new ways to gain competitive advantages and improve their chances of survival. Companies large and small are facing tough times, and Grocery America is no exception. This large and well-known chain of retail grocery stores has been in business for nearly 25 years but now finds itself struggling to stay afloat. Currently the number five grocery retailer in the country, the company will have to find a way to climb to the lead position in its market to remain in business

Dollar Tree is company that operates in the discount retail industry. Dollar Tree has a significant history of acquiring competitors in order to expand its operations (Parnell, 2014). This growth strategy has resulted in satisfactory performance in the past, but the company is now approaching the point that industry concentration may alert unwanted attention from anti-trust regulators. It is therefore unclear how Dollar Tree can continue its massive growth through further horizontal integration.

June 6, 2007 Zara Case Study Summary Zara is a clothing retail store for women, men and children, concentrating sixty percent of their effort to the women clothing market. Besides retailing, Zara also designs, produces, and ships their lines of clothing to their Zara stores. Zara 's corporate concept is to offer fashionable, trendy, designs at a reasonable price. The key to their corporate success is to offer the latest trends and fashions before their competitors. They believe that

"Coexistence and Co-prosperity" with society. Seven-Eleven Japan will continue to develop our convenience store franchise business based on our fundamental philosophies of "Modernizing and revitalizing small and medium-sized retail stores" and "Coexistence and Co-prosperity". Our special business characteristics are the foundation of our efforts to build better relationships with our stores while focusing on management support for our partner franchisees, as well as with local communities surrounding

Kroger vs. Publix Analysis General Overview: Kroger and Publix Supermarkets are both dominating competitors in the grocery store market. Providing customers with low prices, unbeatable deals and a unique quality of products is what both companies strive for. The purpose of this report is to present our analysis of two competing companies within the same industry. Through research we have explored, analyzed and applied our learnings of information systems through comparing the websites, social media

transformation. Sheetz was founded in 1952 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and began to spread out as primarily convenience stores. In 1972 the company had expanded to seven to fourteen stores, and a year later Sheetz added gasoline pumps. It was in 1995 that Sheetz began to introduce touchscreen ordering and their food and beverage products, offering high quality food at a gas convenience store (“Our History”). Conversely, Wawa began in 1964 and was a food market, and added more food products throughout the