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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Walmart"”.
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Investigating challenges brought about the Walmart/Massmart merger in South Africa
Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management Sciences in Business Administration, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2021.
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Efficiency comparison of online and offline markets: evidence from the two largest U.S. retailers
… between the two largest retailers, Amazon and Walmart. The results clearly indicate that the online market is more efficient than the offline market. Comparing the online prices between the multichannel retailer Walmart and the pure online retailer Amazon we find that for 64.5% of the …
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The Big Box Bill of Rights
… Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. The ascendance of Walmart and similar big box developers during the latter part of the twentieth century instigated a profound transformation of Bentonville's city fabric, one that paralleled a larger makeover of the suburban landscape in North America. This thesis …
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Dr. StrangeBox or : how I learned to stop worrying and love urban big box retail
… of five case studies, consisting of Target and Walmart stores built since 2008 in Chicago and Washington, D.C. An examination of the range of these new urban Big Box typologies was conducted to assess the current state of this phenomenon and attempt to understand and project its impacts on …
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Business innovation and regulatory enforcement: case studies of the big box retail industry and enforcement of RCRA
… using the comparison of two Big Box firms, Walmart Stores, Inc. and Target Corporation, nationally and for the following states with opposing enforcement strategies: Arizona, Kentucky, Missouri, and Texas. The data used was obtained from third-party federal or firm-maintained sources. …
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Future of grocery retail shopping : challenges and opportunities in e-commerce grocery shopping
… from offline brick-and-mortar stores such as Walmart and Kroger to online e-retailers such as Amazon, Peapod, FreshDirect, and Instacart. Ecommerce grocery retailers have invested heavily in technology, warehouses, and transportation fleets. However, as of 2016, e-commerce grocery sales still …
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Understanding the shift from permanent employment to contract work among retail workers who accepted voluntary retrenchment packages in 2017
… sector when the Multinational Corporation (MNC) Walmart entered South African retail industry through the Walmart/Massmart Merger in 2011. Retail companies such as Pick n Pay (PnP) adopted workplace-restructuring strategies to maintain a competitive edge in the retail sector. This study draws …
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Ironman: The Gordon Haller Story
… competition. He is now a programmer analyst for Walmart, living with his wife in Bella Vista, Arkansas. This 26-minute film includes interviews with Haller as well as his wife, a friend and the director of development at the American Diabetes Association where he volunteers. The documentary film …
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Towards an automatic predictive question formulation
… 1077 prediction problems automatically for the Walmart Store Sales Forecasting dataset found on Kaggle[16], and built models that attempted to solve them, for which we produced 235 AUC scores. The web application also allowed us to collect 157 ratings from humans on the meaningfulness of …
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Agenda-Building in Local Land-Use Issues: Blacksburg Versus the Big Box
… intensified when town residents discovered a Walmart store might be included in a new retail development project. Local interest groups quickly formed, establishing different perspectives concerning the issue, while a Blacksburg Town Council member introduced an ordinance that would give the …
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The Effects of Crystal Bridges in Downtown Revitalization of Bentonville, Arkansas in The Last Decade
… and the structure of the city has changed. Walmart is the driving economic factor in the city, but Crystal Bridges is providing Bentonville with an identity. The data from the Downtown vitality report and the U.S. Census data suggests that Bentonville has the largest number of people living …
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ESSAYS IN EMPIRICAL CORPORATE FINANCE
… portfolio, family owners, such as the Waltons of Walmart, hold large fractions of their wealth in a single stock. To explain this decision, we build a unique model of ambiguity aversion wherein the family’s information advantage in their firm allows them to more accurately estimate value-at-risk …
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Sensing materiality's rhetorical force: building a deeper understanding of the rhetorical entanglements of materiality, embodiment, and power
… embodied rhetorical analyses of two spaces—a Walmart Supercenter and a Regal Nail Salon—and explore the various ways in which these elements intertwine to structures spaces for the emergence of the Agentic Hand, Hand as Feminized Object, and the Subversive Agentic Hand. In order to more fully …
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Dynamic, data-driven decision-making in revenue management
… a related assortment planning problem faced by Walmart Online Grocery, where before checkout, customers are recommended "add-on" items that are complementary to their current shopping cart (Chapter 3). Third, we derive inventory-dependent priceskimming policies for the single-leg RM problem, …
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Two Essays on Consumer Responses to (Un)Ethical Brand Behavior
… U.S. companies such as Amazon, Apple, and Walmart unveiled a new policy. The chief executives argued that businesses have a greater purpose than maximizing profit. Companies should “build long-term value” by “investing in our employees” and “supporting the communities in which we work” …
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Big box, no more quick fixes : a historical account of consumption, retail and discount shopping typologies
… real estate owner and good's provider is WalMart. A company's whose name has become synonymous with greed and a glutinous American lifestyle, where the size of our waists, waste and debt has become as swollen and distended as our sprawling retail landscape. Any serious remedy to this …
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Cost Comparison of Foods Purchased for an All-Organic Diet and a Conventional, Non-Organic Diet
… conventional counterparts at a lower price (Walmart Supercenter), moderate price (Food City) and higher price (The Fresh Market) grocery venues in Kingsport, TN. Product price and package size in ounces or fluid ounces were collected. Cost per ounce was calculated for analysis. A repeated …
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Pathfinder – an online shopping assistant driven by data mining
Online Shopping is a household phrase that has been extremely successful in easing the lives of many people across the globe. Online shoppers spend ample amounts of time and money in buying products that they receive at their doorstep in a matter of a few days or, in some cases, a few hours. …
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The impact of food geography on consumer and producer welfare
… the most severe food desert in the county. I use Walmart Neighborhood Market (WNM) as an example of a low-cost grocery store because WNM offers prices that are 10%-15% lower than an average grocery store, which may be particularly appealing to low-income consumers and is expanding fast in the U.S. …