The Big Store

confectionery store within easy walking distance from their home and named their business enterprise the W. P. Swanson Confectionery.2 Although they continued to farm, their lives changed with the acquisition, which substantially increased an already demanding workload. With business acquaintances William began using the mature, yet still informal, form of his name, Bill, a practice that evolved into the norm over time. Nevertheless, childhood family and friends continued to call him Willie for the rest of his life, a practice that Bill seemed to sanction. Bill divided his time between the farm and the store, where he handled the management duties of finance, purchasing, and customer relations. Besides running the household, Clara clerked at the confectionery and even opened up an eatery, serving home cooked meals in the rear of the store. Although Anton’s advanced years probably slowed him down, blest with good health in his early sixties, he continued to toil alongside Willie, assisting with the farm work.3 The W. P. Swanson Confectionery occupied the main floor of a wood framed commercial building owned by John Jarchow, which stood in an advantageous location on West Railroad Avenue between the State Bank of Harris, across a street to the north, and the Harris Post Office, to the immediate south. Furthermore, the recently built Harris Cooperative Creamery stood north of the bank and beyond that the Harris Feed Mill.4 Adjacent to and south of the post office,…

positive that it will see a turnaround. Even with many locations closing, Sears Holdings still has an expanse of physical locations, including both Sears stores and Kmart stores. Both…

goal; is simply to improve customer service by shortening checkout lines and better meeting the need of shoppers. To assist in the development of its computerized scheduling system in all of its stores, Wal-Mart requests that its associates submit “personal availability” forms. Language on the form instructs associates that “Limiting your personal availability may restrict the number of hours you are scheduled.” Anecdotal evidence suggests that some workers have indeed seen their hours cut and…

A typical Walmart worker gets paid between $9 and $15 and hour. Most of the workers tend to be inexperienced or have a low level of skill. Many of the students that graduated from college start at $15 an hour or more. It wouldn’t be fair for Walmart employers that barely start working there to get paid that much for just putting products on the shelves and organizing them. If the employees at Walmart want to get paid more they can start by having a career that is going to help them out…

Operating & Capital Leases Big 5 Sporting Good’s reasons for leasing its stores: 1. To conserve cash: By taking a lease rather than paying the entire cost of an asset upfront, Big 5 only pay relatively small monthly payments. 2. Tax deductible: Store leases payment are structured to be a deductible expense. However, if one purchases the asset, one has to capitalize and depreciate the asset which slows the recovery of costs. 3. Better Asset to Liability ratio: Recording liability is not…

The first way will be via-internet. The internet will allow anyone to purchase the device. Internet purchasing is limiting the market even more. This limits it to people who are actually looking for the item plus people who have internet excess. This is not a productive way to market our item. Marketing in superstores is the other way of marketing that was discussed. Supercenter, like Target, is a great place to house TrackIt. It offers a name brand location and sells similar items. Marketing…

Costco is one of America's largest membership warehouse stores. In fact in 2016 they received 2.35 billion dollars in net income. According to The Motley Fool in 2015 there were up to 44.6 million paid members, but 81.3 million total card holders. We were tasked to learn more about Costco and their customers. Luckily with us being in Consumer Insights we were able to go to Costco over the weekend and get some great observations in. Since it is a membership club most of Costco's customers are in…

The following is an analysis on The Clorox Company. I am currently a fund manager for a well-known investment banking house in New York. I have been tasked with investing/managing a $300 million dollar fund. The type of fund I am managing is a pension/retirement fund. This fund is a long term with low risk of loss of capital and requires a return of five percent per annum. As the fund manager, I will invest $25 million dollars in The Clorox Company which is a long term low risk investment. “The…

proposition: provide high-quality house ware goods [in a] value-priced market” (Doede & Nickman-Retana, 2010, p. 45). LNT’s first store was in “West Orange, New Jersey at Approximately 7,500 square feet” (Doede & Nickman-Retana, 2010, p. 52). LNT experienced a transaction of “55 LNT chains in 14 states being sold to Melville Corp.” two years after the transaction in 1983, Founder and CEO Eugene Kalkin leaves LNT (Doede & Nickman-Retana, 2010, p. 52). As a result of Kalkin’s leaving LNT hired…

consumers everyday like “appliances, automative (and) baby…(etc)” (Walmart). The services Walmart offers to customers are: “pharmacy, portrait studio (and) smartstyle hair salon… (etc)” (Walmart). Both retail and services are convenient also affordable for consumers. Walmart wants customers to buy products at affordable prices, they do this through their ad match program. This program allows customers to pay the lowest price for products by; comparing the price of a product at Walmart to the…