Walmart essay 4

Walmart has a tremendous product line which includes general merchandise, apparel, toys, domestics, grocery, fabrics & notions, stationery & books, cellular phones & service plan contracts, shoes, housewares, hardware, electronics Wal-Mart study Case#1 1. What threats and challenges is Wal-Mart currently facing?

Over all, the Walmart strategies were including: multiple store segments, lower daily prices, lots of name-brand merchandise, reduce operating costs, emphasized customers satisfied service, wide selection products, disciplined expansion into new geographic markets, and using acquisition to enter foreign market (Walmart Store Inc., 2010).

As we know, the mission statement for Walmart is “every day low price.” In order to insist their mission, Walmart implemented three approaches in the market. First, it increased the local purchasing in order to reduce the purchasing costs and also suit consumers’ needs in different places.

Walmart as Rational Organization: The first article that I read was entitled, “Walmart’s entire business model is crumbling” by Lutz. This article is about how Walmart is doing as a business which isn’t that good.