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A Comprehensive Financial Analysis Of Retail And Wholesale Food Chains, Aaron Fitzgerald Dallas Ii

Honor’s College Freeman Research Journal

This Financial Analysis Report serves as a financial instrument taking an introspective view into two dynamic companies in the retail and grocery industry. Both Kroger and Costco Wholesale have consistently managed to maintain a reputable career as two large industrial organizations. These two companies have had a magnitude of success by their way of operations in such a competitive market. First, looking at each company's history and way of operations we discovered different strategies utilized between Kroger and Costco. Kroger, a supermarket chain centralizes on effective manufacturing and processing of foods sold in their various supermarkets. They experienced a 6.35% …

Retail Employee Motivation And Performance, Angela Michelle Addair

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Retail industry leaders seek effective strategies to improve employee motivation to increase levels of workforce productivity. The purpose of this single case study was to explore the strategies successful retail industry leaders used to motivate their employees to achieve higher levels of workforce productivity. The conceptual framework for the study was Vroom's expectancy theory of motivation. The research participants consisted of 2 retail store managers from the same retail store located in southeastern mid-Atlantic region of the United States who successfully motivated their employees. Data collection consisted of semistructured interviews, direct observation, and review of company documents. Data analysis included …

Dinámica Financiera De Las Empresas Del Sector Retail Y Su Relación Con La Macroeconomía Colombiana En Los Últimos Años, Diana Carolina Vargas Rubio, Yoni Eduardo Ortiz Rojas, Maria Paula Marín Fino

Finanzas y Comercio Internacional

En esta investigación se evalúa el comportamiento financiero de las empresas del sector retail y su relación con la situación económica en Colombia en los últimos años. Para ello se realiza un análisis económico y financiero del sector, un diagnóstico de la situación financiera de un grupo de empresas seleccionadas y la estimación de las principales relaciones entre el comportamiento del sector y la macroeconomía en Colombia en el periodo de 2008 a 2017. Se empleó una metodología de tipo cuantitativa correlacional a través del análisis financiero, donde se incluyeron indicadores de liquidez, rentabilidad, apalancamiento y endeudamiento, junto al análisis …

Understanding The Retail Investor: Technical And Fundamental Analysis, Ben Davis

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.

International Expansion In The Retail Industry: A Multi-Case Study On Strategic Expansionary Variables, Patrick Conaty

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.

Food Waste At Retail, Erin G. Killeen Davis

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Food waste at retail represents forgone sales and embodies store management and disposal costs. Fresh produce is the largest contributing sector to food waste at retail and bulky, seasonal products are an added challenge when stores experience a high waste event. In order to improve, retailers need to better understand the costs of food waste, as well as how management strategies can impact these costs.

Using pumpkins as an example of bulky, seasonal products, a twofold research project was conducted to better understand contributors to, and costs of food waste at the retail level. In part one, using data from …

Re-Opening A Dan’S Pet Supply Store In Hemet, California, Jeffrey Z. Harrison

Agribusiness

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine if Dan’s Feed & Seed should re-open a pet supply store in the town of Hemet, California. The goal was to satisfy three objectives including if Dan’s Feed & Seed could compete in the current market, if there was a demand in Hemet, California, and if Dan’s could be profitable within a two year period. Dan’s proved to be able to compete with the competition by having lower prices with two out of three competitors and could compete with the remaining competitor by providing high quality, name brand dog food that …

Does The Reit Tale Wag The Dog? The Relationship Between Tenant Ownership And The Volatility Of Retail Reit Stock Returns, Dana G. Staley

CMC Senior Theses

This paper will assess the relationship between tenant characteristics and public REIT volatility. Specifically, we focus on the retail REIT subset of the industry. Given that retail REITs are one the most transparent asset classes, they provide an interesting landscape for evaluating the relationship between the firm and the customers, or in this case, the tenants. Specifically, we assess how major tenant ownership, public or private equity owned, impacts the volatility of the REIT’s stock price using 2010 data on 30 retail REITs. Controlling for tenant credit quality, leverage, ROE, book-to-market, size, age, region and property focus, we find that …