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Strategic Analysis of Wal-Mart & Toyota

Memorandum

Date: 03/31/2008

To: Teresa Coates

From: Vivek Singh Bhadoriya

Subject: Strategic Analysis


The first Wal-Mart was open in Rogers, Arkansas in 1962. Wall-Mart is the largest retailer in the world with about $1 billion in sales in a mere 17 years becoming the first company to achieve this mark. At the end of 2006, Wall-Mart had around 2 million employees, 179 million customers a year and 6775 stores all across the globe (CIO, 2006).

Wall- mart has been known to provide the best services to its customers at a very low price although the big player applies pressure on the suppliers to give them every day low prices. Due to this low pricing strategy of wall mart, it has hardly any competitor in the merchandise and groceries category. The low price strategy has led to the lay off of various employees and close of US plants in order to outsource to other countries. Wal-Mart is known for continuous improvement......

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