Sam's Club

Friday. These daily promotion have helped increase the number of returning customers, which has strengthened customer loyalty, in turn boosted overall sales. Mentos Monday: The first daily promotion takes place on Mondays. It features one of the most popular products that the store sells, Mentos. During this event customers are incentivized to purchase Mentos with a raffle ticket. Whenever a customer buys a pack of Mentos on “Mentos Monday”, they get to write their name on a ticket. A ticket is…

The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace Located in middle of an African coconut plantation, the world largest basilica of the world seems to be the monument towering the horizon. This article written by Tim McDonnel will give an insight on the history and describe the edifice. From the first paragraph, we can clearly see the purpose of the author to show the location of the largest church in the world and some details about what make it so special. He began by giving a description of the landscape…

JCPenny is a retail store that sells clothing, shoes, jewelry, houseware, and much more. JCPenny is a publicly traded stock, meaning anyone can purchase their stock. When JCPenny was first founded in 1902, it was very popular among Americans and was succeeding. They had opened more than 2,000 stores by 1973, 19 of them being outlet stores. Their business continued to grow until 2010, they then began to fall into a depression. In 2011, JCPenny announced that they would be closing all of their…

In the essay Sebastian Mallaby persuades readers that the retail giant, Wal-Mart isn’t the evil empire that people claim. Although he acknowledges the company isn’t saintly, they provide workers with basic healthcare coverage and income for its employees. I both agree and disagree with some of Mallaby’s assertions about Wal-Mart. is taking a pretty hard beating from its critics but on the other hand I question his claims and statistics. Mallaby claims “the average Wal-Mart customer earns thirty…

Wal-Mart has promised the lowest prices compared to their competitors since Sam Walton founded it in 1962. Since then, Wal-Mart has become a multi-billion dollar international corporation with over 2 million employees. Wal-Mart has made over $16 billion dollars this year alone, adding to a total of over $450 billion dollars in revenue with over 11,000 locations worldwide. Due to the company’s huge success, the Walton family is now part of the wealthiest one percent of the Earth’s population.…

IPPE1 rotation at sam’s club pharmacy, I had another good opportunity to meet customers in the store by providing free blood pressure measurement and medication counseling. The sole purpose of the service was to give awareness about high blood pressure, healthy living and patient medication adherence. On the other hand, we also provide information about the services provided by the pharmacy. I had a chance to talk with more than 10 customers who doesn’t fill medication at Sam's club pharmacy…

try out a new but similar place. But the question remained: could it replace my favorite place? II. Thesis Statement: Costco vs Sam’s Club. Show Preview of Main Points slide here (#2) III. Preview of Main Points: Three key features that distinguish Costco and Sam’s Club. A. The membership B. The products C. The employees Transition: Let’s talk money as I take you to my…

get in touch with the products. Supermarkets provide a wide variety of different products. When a new product is about to enter into the market, marketers place small kiosks offering small samples to customers in stores. I have seen, for instance, Sam’s Club and Shoprite use this kind of strategy to get customers involved with their products by testing them. Finally, another major point discussed by the author in chapter fifteen is checkouts. For some of us shopping is fun until we have to…

According to Forbes Magazine, emerging competitors, such as amazon.com, take advantage of the ease associated with shopping at home, while Sam’s Club uses the expansive influence of Wal-Mart to balance Costco’s exemplary membership expansion, which grows at a rate of about 10% per year (Trefis Team, 2014). With these factors taken into consideration, it is becoming increasingly relevant for…

decide? This case is based on Mr. Cortez, who worked for Sam's Club from 1986 to 2003. Mr. Cortez sued Sam's Club for discrimination in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, alleging that the company failed to promote him to general manager as he requested for several years. Mr. Cortez also argued that although he was qualified, even more qualified than other younger employees that were promoted, Sam's Club constantly ignored and denied him the opportunity to be…