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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"wal mart"”.
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Wal-Mart, Magazine Street, and Retail Competition
… potential mega-store is a 200,000 square foot Wal-Mart Supercenter that is part of the retail component of the St. Thomas housing re-development. The focus of this project is the retail competition that might be generated by this mega-store. Businesses were studied and placed into categories as …
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Wal Mart: New stratedy in urban scale for American downtowns
Wal Mart, which contains nation's largest private employers (1.2 million workers), sellers of retail goods($280 billion), and owner of corporate real estate(911 million square feet), is now locally and globally getting more dominant. Its simple but straight forward strategy is enough to make …
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Entry of Wal-Mart into South Africa : a stakeholder management perspective
… management during entry of a retailer, Wal-Mart, into an emerging market, South Africa, in order to draw lessons that could be of use to other MNEs seeking to enter similar emerging markets. The method used for the study was a qualitative archival analysis that relied on publicly …
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Meeting the RFID mandate : options for Wal-Mart suppliers and evaluation methodology
Various retailers like Wal-Mart, Target, and Albertsons have announced their mandates asking their top suppliers to become RFID enabled beginning 2005. Meeting the mandate has become a sort of cost of doing business with Wal-Mart for suppliers. The objective of this thesis is to look for ways of …
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Revealing natural processes to the contemporary observer : Wal-Mart & stormwater runoff management
… seemingly disparate activities, specifically a Wal-Mart development and a department of natural resources complex. Issues of stormwater management and quality are explored through a water management system in a proposed commercial/retail development for the Wal-Mart corporation. A Wisconsin …
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Framework for the study of governance in the supply networks : Wal-mart : "Enlightened Despot" model
… The second objective is to study the case of Wal-Mart as a generally recognized governance best practice. The main focus will be on (i) the relation between the company's pricing strategy and its supply chain strategy, (ii) the enforcement of investments in supply chain technology throughout …
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Competition law : the legal precedent of the Wal-Mart case on competition law development in Namibia
… paper is based on the decision of the Wal-Mart cases in respect to competition law, mergers and acquisition in Namibia. Owing to the fact that Namibian law is mostly derived from South African law, the exploration and analysis will be based on both Wal-Mart cases in Namibia and South …
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Should India open foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail : a case study using the Wal-Mart effect
… (FDI), by large international retailers like Wal-Mart, on the fate of small retailers. Interestingly, both these questions have been on the table of policy makers in India for more than 15 years and the Government has so far only allowed some FDI in 'single-brand' retailing and 'wholesale …
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MACROECONOMIC ASPECTS OF COMMODITY PRICE DYNAMICS
… My second chapter examines the role played by Wal-Mart in price convergence among US cities. Despite the fact that market structure is an important determinant of price convergence and that US retail architecture has been changed over the past two decades by the expansion of big box stores and …
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An analysis of current supply chain best practices in the retail industry with case studies of Wal-Mart and Amazon.com
… the retail industry and analyzes case studies of Wal-Mart and Amazon.com to illustrate retail supply chain best practices. Topics covered in each case study include supply chain strategy and business strategy linkage, operating models, supply chain design, replenishment and distribution processes, …
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RFID : ROI opportunities after the sunk cost
… options exist to satisfy the RFID mandate by Wal-Mart--tag cases at the exit doors, tag all cases at the supplier's warehouse docks, tag a certain section of the warehouse, etc. The big question is how to prevent Wal-Mart suppliers from treating the cost of EPC standard-adoption from just …
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Globalisation, value chains and firm-level catch-up in developing countries : the cases of Boeing, Wal-Mart and Coca-Cola in China
… countries through the case studies of Boeing, Wal-Mart and Coca-Cola and the impact of their activities in China. The case studies investigate the strategies of these fi1111S, the resulting value chain structures, and the patterns and impact of their activities in China. Data is collected from …
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An Architectural Alternative to the Big Box
Wal-Mart has plans to open a store in the town of Blacksburg, Virginia. The fact that there is already a Wal-Mart store, in the town of Christiansburg, just four miles away from the proposed location makes this idea ridiculous for some. A large group of Blacksburg residents are opposed to the idea …
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Essays on local labor markets
… The first chapter explores the effect of Wal-Mart expansion on local retail employment. The phenomenal expansion of Wal-Mart provides a clean case for studying the labor-market effects of increased efficiency. I estimate the effect of Wal-Mart entry on retail employment at the county …
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Dichotomy of Product Packaging/ Product Design in U.S. Trade Dress Law and Its Implications for Developing Countries
… dramatically as a result of the Supreme Court's Wal-Mart decision in 2000. The Wal-Mart Court held that, in detem1ining legal protection for a trade dress, different standards should be applied depending on whether the trade dress is product packaging or product design. However, this dichotomy …
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Reducing inventory by simplifying forecasting and using point of sale data
… sale data generated by two of their customers, (Wal-Mart and Target), to predict the orders of all of Gillette's customers combined. The thesis also examines the impact on forecasts of shortening and simplifying the demand planning process. By improving the forecast of orders from their …
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KIVA.ORG'S PERSUASIVE APPEAL: A BURKEAN ANALYSIS OF CHARITY PERSUASION
… to Cisco, Google, Intel, Ernst & Young and Wal-Mart. Considering that many nonprofit organizations (NPOs) fail within their first year, Kiva's success deserves careful attention to the rhetorical strategies that it uses to convince so many people and corporations to give.
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Is there a role for public interest provisions in South African competition law?
The recent Wal-Mart/Massmart merger decision by the Competition Tribunal has highlighted the delicate role that the South African Competition Authorities (the Competition Commission, Competition Tribunal and the Competition Appeal Court) play between balancing public interest provisions and …
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Logistics barriers for multinational corporations doing business in China
… firms have encountered in China. Dell and Wal-Mart are selected as case studies. The thesis analyzes their operating strategies and solutions to various problems they encountered in China and makes some recommendations.
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Gestión de inventario colaborativo en una empresa de consumo masivo
… fue popularizado a fines de los ‘80s por Wal-Mart y Procter & Gamble. Actualmente es aplicada por muchas empresas, más habitualmente entre empresas de consumo masivo y sus respectivos clientes. El objetivo del presente trabajo es: • Evaluar si la metodología de implementación de VMI es …
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