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Wal-Mart
Operations
Wal-Mart's has grown to be one of the most powerful organizations in the world and its biggest assets is it powerful retail brand name. The company has branded itself as the low cost leader in their industry and consumer perceive the brand as offering value for money, convenience and a wide range of products all in one store (Marketing Teacher, N.d.). Although Wal-Mart does not produce many goods internally, it offers a retail service that connects suppliers from all over the world with consumers via its network of retail outlets. Wal-Mart is known for its dedication to providing retail goods the lowest prices possible to consumers in their industry. Wal-Mart has some of the most sophisticated supply chains and distribution networks available and the company creates value through quantities of supply.
Supply and Demand
There are many factors that influence Wal-Mart's ability to achieve equilibrium in supply and demand. Some of the most recent issues that is affecting the sales that the company will be able to achieve in the current quarter will...
The delays in income tax refunds as well as higher gas prices both affect their consumer bases level of disposable income while the payroll tax increase causes the company to incur additional expenses. However, since Wal-Mart is the low cost leader in the market, during macroeconomic problems the company can see an increase in many of the goods that it sells. This is primarily due to the fact that cash strapped consumers will gravitate to Wal-Mart's low cost position.
There are many issues that can affect the company's retail supply levels as well. Since the company's supply chain consists of somewhere around the neighborhood of a hundred thousand suppliers or more the company has a significant amount of exposure to regional issues. For example, one issue that Wal-Mart has been dealing with lately is a fire that occurred in a Bangladesh factory that was owned by a subcontractor of Wal-Mart who was manufacturing private label clothing for the company (Raza, 2013). This fire killed over one…
Works Cited
Hsu, T. (2013, February 21). Wal-Mart: Tax refund delay, high gas prices to flatten sales. Retrieved from LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-walmart-profit-flat-sales-20130221,0,5846500.story
Marketing Teacher. (N.d.). SWOT Analysis of Wal-Mart. Retrieved from Marketing Teacher: http://marketingteacher.com/SWOT/walmart-SWOT.html#
Raza, P. (2013, January 13). Walmart in supply chain crackdown after Bangladesh factory fire. Retrieved from The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9821366/Walmart-in-supply-chain-crackdown-after-Bangladesh-factory-fire.html
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