Case Study: Dollar General

Dollar Tree is now the largest U.S. Discount chain, due to its recent acquisition of its rival, Family Dollar in 2015 (Much, 2016). To maintain its position and remain successful, Dollar Tree “needs to get a better performance from its Family Dollar Store outlets, which were struggling prior to the merger" (Much, 2016, para. 2). Merging with Family Dollar now enhances Dollar Tree’s range of customers, new markets, market shares, financial performance, and improve growth prospects (Much, 2016). Additionally, this acquisition anticipates generating significant synergy opportunities and free cash flow to pay off debts (Guiler, 2015, para. 13 & 14).

Kroger would like to be included in the ACD for Anchorage. Which is currently in their Kroger-TeamCo and Kroger – TeamCo STEP portfolio. A little background on the Kroger/TeamCo relationship: Kroger, recently submitted a full redemption request to TeamCo (TeamCo is a FoF and the majority of their business is with Kroger). As a result, TeamCo has started the liquidation process and will no longer exist as of January 2018. However, the anchorage position in the TeamCo portfolios have always been in Kroger’s name, so there will not be a need for a transfer of ownership or beneficial ownership. Kroger is still needs to figure out if they will redeem, maintain or add to the position. In the meantime, they would like to be included to

Chick fil A does not have anything out side of the U.S most of their product come from local farms or provider so that they can keep everithyng fresh. The company tries to open or buy factories or farms to make their own products one example is a factory to make their cups and similar items for all their restaurants, the location of the factory is not know by the manager. Their drinks are from coke company and is their mainly outsouce product but Antonio explain that because of their menu mainly compose by chicken they have an easier transition to world market because chicken is easy to get and does not go against religion. If they manage to go globally maybe some of the factories for cups will be outsource but chicken will always stay local

Christi, I agree that Chic-fil-a is a company that you can go to any location and receive same customer service of a polite, smiling face to represent the company. Chic-fil-a mission is provide a positive influence on all who come in contact with them (CFA Properties, Inc., 2016). This positive customer service is what keeps me coming back along with the fact that the team members shows an interested in making sure their customers are satisfied and the warm welcome. Team member ask for your name when placing an order on the inside and your name is called when your order is ready. The team members always greet you with, “how may I serve your” and end with “it was my pleasure to serve you”. I normally go to Chic-fil-A on my lunch and there

This drug war does not involve gangs or cartels. It's not the bloods and crips fighting for territory or street corner marijuana sales. There were no drive-bys or retaliatory hits. Yet, this drug deal is going to have repercussions for all Americans...if it is found to be legal.

As a Costco Wholesale consultant we are looking to expand our company in a foreign market. Costco wholesale first opened in 1976 under the name of Price Club who was originally serving to small businesses. Our company provides a wide rang of merchandise ( food, electronics, clothing, etc.) and the convenience to have a exclusive member service. Later on the company decided that they could achieve greater sells by serving to a selected audience of non-business members therefore the first Costco warehouse was opened in 1983 in Seattle. Our operation is simple we like to keep costs down and let our members save. Since our company has been expanding globally we have been looking for the next country that we would like to open our company in. The

Costco: the big box wholesale retail store. Costco has been around for almost 50 years, offering bulk products at wholesale prices. As most families have adaptive to being small, large or blended, there is always something that wholesale stores have that is worth buying in bulk. You have the option of buying detergent, paper products or even food in bulk. Now a day, some of the “big box” stores even offer hot foods, clothing and furniture.

The fact that Costco has one of the most efficient market supply chains in the world whereby it facilitates the movement of merchandise from the manufacturer to store shelves with the least amount of physical effort and labor is another reason that makes Costco so successful. As of 2016 Costco inventory turnover ratio sits at 12.94. Inventory turnover ratio for 2016: Sales / inventory; Costco Net sales for 2016 was $116,073,000 and inventory for 2016 was $8,969,000 which comes out $116,073,000 / $8,969,000 = 12.94. Which means that Costco is able to turn over its entire inventory roughly about 13 times a year. This process of eliminating the need for breaking down pallets and repacking it for different stores is where Costco excels at and that’s good news for Costco bottom line. Wulfraat (2014).

Kroger, a grocery store that is slowing evolving into a Walmart or Target was started up by Barney Kroger. Barney used his life savings that consisted of $372 to open the very first Kroger store in downtown Cincinnati. Barney lived by his motto “Be particular. Never sell anything you would not want yourself “. Kroger has an established business ethics and they also have core values set in place. To help support their employees they also have an established labor union along with other strongly supported policies. Kroger was able to achieve its growth by merging with other successful companies.

I have just recently inherited this General Mills Micros Simphony Legacy Hosting renewal (9790453, 5ZNTK), do you happen to know any background information regarding this renewal? Looks like we need to convert this renewal from managed hosting to sass.

Walgreens got into the trouble when it wagers a deal with Theranson Inc. Theranos made a “Tiny sample blood testing device” which was never tested and validated. Walgreens blindly believed Theranson Inc. to keep off other market competitors. Even though there were many doubts, Walgreens still signed a contract with Theranos which it cannot back off. Finally, during FDA inspection, the truth revealed. Now, federal agency's action to push Theranos for corrective actions is the only hope for Walgreens to save themselves if they break the contract with Theranos.

The payment processing landscape at Walgreens has evolved over the years to meet the growing number of businesses need and to support the increasing number of payment methods accepted (e.g. VISACheckout, MasterPass, Apple Pay). With this, there was a need to enhance the existing data security measures for credit and debit card transactions during capture, in-transit, or storage within any Walgreen’s systems, as well as to prepare for future business demand and upcoming payment industry changes to ensure that customer data is secure while also ensuring business processes are not hindered or inhibited.

Costco Wholesale Corporation (Costco) is a retail membership warehouse chain which was founded by Jim Sinegal and Jeff Brotman in 1983. Headquartered out of Issaquah, Washington, Costco has grown in to one of the largest wholesale giants in the industry. The company’s business model was to generate high sales volumes and rapid inventory turnover by offering members low prices on a limited selection of nationally branded and selected private-label products in a wide range of merchandise categories (Gamble & Thompson Jr., 2009, p. 217). This

Smart phones are allowing customers to shop with their phones inside stores; credit cards are accepted via phones vs. cash registers. Technology brings online shopping vs. in store shopping. And, advertising is popping up on smart phones as electronic messages as customers shop based on their location. Service is defiantly the key to keep a customer coming into a department store.

Over the last four years, I’ve delt a great deal with RFID supply chains, and have seen first hand the positive advancements that are made with them. If given the opportunity to lead this project with your company, I believe I can close the gap between Intel and it’s competitors.