...[pic] By: Edwin Majano PART I Company Overview Big Lots Inc. is one of the nation’s largest and most successful broad line closeout retailers that exist today. Facing adversity and changing trends, the company has remained stable and has continued to strive with what the economy has had to offer. With the motto “Brand names at closeout prices!” the company has built its foundation by acting on what they stand for. With its well organized business plan, Big Lots continues to make improvements for its customers as well as employers. As the years progress, the company has been able to monitor what demands are wanted and how to supply it in a manner that brings in the most profit. Success can only be measured by researching the techniques in which a company such as Big Lots has successfully implemented, to which most strategies are much more simple than what people think. The company exposes its main goal by simply stating its mission statement. Big Lots mission is “To be the best at saving our customers money by creating excitement with brand name closeouts and bargains though a unique shopping experience." With that being said, Big Lots has positioned itself to be better stabilized in regards to the competitive standpoint by demonstrating to its customers that their main goal is to make shopping the least expensive. As the company strives, more and more strategies are established on a daily basis. In order to grasp how the company maintains a well rounded...
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...all of this was a quick fix the revenue never stayed constant but continued to drop. The store stayed in the original idea but never moved forward with the changes of times. Toys where out dated and there was lack of organization. KB Toys’ KB Toys started out as a candy wholesaler in 1922 (KB Toys, nd).Toys was not what the Kaufman Brothers, KB, where looking for however when a debt could not be paid by a client Kaufman Brothers inherited a wholesale toy company during the 1940s (KB Toys, nd). KB Toys changed their name a few times through out the company’s life span. Kay-Bee Toy & Hobby Stores was the first name to take life and sale items at discount prices. By 1977 the store had changed focus to just toys and it was such a big success the name was changed to Kay-Bee Toy and Hobby Shops, Inc. (KB Toys, nd). In 1981 the company is purchased by Melville Corporation and is a division known as Kay-Bee Toy Stores (KB Toys, nd). By 1996 the chains of stores are sold to Consolidated Stores Corporation (KB Toys, nd). Once Consolidated bought Kay-Bee the image of the company needed to be enhanced, thus the KB logo was created (KB Toys, nd). KB toys had a great idea with providing toys at a discounted price. This idea kept KB Toys in business for 86 years (The Washington Times, December 12, 2008). Wal-Mart also had the same idea to provide toys for a discount price, because of Wal-Marts buying power KB Toys was not able to compete and decided to close the doors in 2008 (The...
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...families. To rate the entire experience, observations were made in the following categories: |Reservation |Parking/Location |Service |Ambience |Food |Ticket Time | Objective of the research: The objective of the research is to observe & rate the following: • Performance, attitudes and behavior of customer-facing staff at various levels • Required standards in and around the restaurant premises • Quality & presentation of food served • Efficiency of service delivery timing Findings: Parameters mentioned are rated at a metric of 4-1; 4 being excellent; 3 being Good; 2 being average & 1 being bad. 1. Reservation Call [pic] 2. Parking Lot/Location [pic] 3. Host/Server [pic] 4. Decor/Ambience [pic] Overall décor & ambience was comfortable & relaxing. The interiors & restrooms were clean. 5. Food Preparation [pic] The food was prepared & served well. The menu was limited but priced competitively. 6. Ticket times [pic] We had to wait for 5 minutes for our table. There was a bit of delay in food & bill delivery as the restaurant is low on staff. |Advantage of Observation over survey |Limitations of Observation over survey | |Overcomes issues of validity, bias etc |Subjectivity of observer | |Useful when difficult for the subject...
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...[pic] Spring 2012 Sustainability in the Built Environment CIV 405 Section 1 Case study: ADU campus sustainability |Name |ID | |Ahmad A. A. Inshasi |1002534 | |Hasan Haytham Al Sadeq |1007151 | |Abdallah Talal Al Mansour |1013397 | |Umar M. Farooq Mirza |1002586 | |Mohamed E. S. Shaat |1005410 | Submitted On: 07 -06 - 2012 Submitted To: Dr. Yasemin Nielsen Abstract Nowadays, sustainability is all about how to help our environment to help us and the next generation who has the right to live a good and safe life with the availability of resources needed. Sustainability concepts should be applied in all our aspects of life because they help us to live a healthier life. This case study is discussing and analyzing whether the campus of ADU is sustainable or it is not and it covers the...
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...SOGO: A FRESHMAN'S ARCHITECTURAL CRITIQUE 03/11/2014 0 COMMENTS The hotel industry is one growing business in the Philippines, among others. It was made, primarily, to provide accommodations, shelter, food and other services to tourists and travellers. Eventually, hotels have adapted to the progression of society, adding new features and functions to attract more customers, yet, in recent times, hotels have started to become different than usual, changing its function into something very sensitive. Hotel Sogo serves as an example. Hotel Sogo is a four-star hotel that was established in 1992. Today, it has a total of 32 branches nationwide, but the critique will focus on the North Edsa branch. The Hotel Sogo - North EDSA Branch is located behind Trinoma Mall. Standing beside many commercial establishments an MRT Station, and a major road, the Red-colored building catches the attention of many. Its facade is boxy, simple and plain. It was colored mainly in red, with accents of yellow, probably to attract more attention. Assuming that a viewer is standing a few meters from its facade, having the chance to view the whole building will be difficult because of many telephone and electric wires and the MRT tracks obstructing the view from that point. At the left of the facade is a driveway that leads to the basement parking. The entrance also served as the exit way, which makes it difficult for cars going down to go up if another car is moving out. The parking had...
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...REGENT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BY VWAMHI LONGJI INFORMATION SYSTEM SCIENCE 00220113 DECLARATION * I declare that this research has not previously been accepted in substance for any degree and is not being concurrently submitted in candidature for any degree. * This thesis is the result of my own investigations, except where otherwise stated, and that other sources are duly acknowledged by footnotes giving explicit references and that a bibliography is appended. * I hereby give my consent for the thesis, if accepted, to be available for photocopying and for inter-library loan, and for the title and summary to be made available to outside organizations. The candidate then provides his/her full name as listed on the records of Regent University. The official name of the candidate’s supervisor should also be listed on this page together with spaces for signatures of the student and supervisor. STUDENT: VWAMHI LONGJI SUPERVISOR: SETH ALORNYO TABLE OF CONTENT CHAPTER ONE- INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND 1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT 1.3 AIM OF STUDY 1.4 OBJECTIVE OF STUDY 1.5 BENEFITS OF STUDY 1.6 SCOPE 1.7 LIMITATION OF STUDY CHAPTER ONE 1.1 BACKGROUND The increase in urban development in West Africa, has led to a rise in the number of urban cities within the region. The development has brought about large migration as more and more people within West...
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...employees to view the eclipse in the parking lot. Staff should meet in the lot at ten to eleven, when I will deliver a short speech introducing the eclipse, and giving some background information. Safety goggles will be made available at a small cost. Memo from Manager to Department Head: Today at ten to eleven, all staff should meet in the car park. This will be followed by a total eclipse of the sun, which will appear for two minutes. For a moderate cost, this will be made safe with goggles. The CEO will deliver a short speech beforehand to give us all some information. This not something that can be seen everyday. Memo from Dept. Head to Floor Manager: The CEO will today deliver a short speech to make the sun disappear for two minutes in the form of an eclipse. This is something that cannot be seen every day, so staff will meet in the car park at ten or eleven. This will be safe, if you pay a moderate cost. Memo from Floor Manager to Supervisor: Ten or eleven staff are to go to the car park, where the CEO will eclipse the sun for two minutes. This doesn’t happen every day. It will be safe, and as usual it will cost you. Memo from Supervisor to Staff: Some staff will go to the car park today to see the CEO disappear. It is a pity, this doesn’t happen everyday. A classic example of "miscommunication"..... About a century or two ago, the Pope decided that all the Sikhs had to leave Italy. Naturally there was a big uproar from the Sikh community. So the Pope...
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...spread throughout the small communities. Most of the housings are apartment complexes or townhouses with a few roadside independent housing. These houses are multifamily dwellings, mostly with brick and wood exteriors, the traditional housing style. The lawns and surroundings are well groomed without any disrepair. They have roadside parking in front of the apartments, and they seem to be very crammed in one specific apartment complex (Avery apartments). There seem to be vacant apartments as evidenced by the “now leasing” board displayed, but there aren’t any houses on sale. There aren’t any open drainage ditches or gutters. There are appropriate streetlights and sidewalks for safety. Open Spaces .5 There is a lot of public open space in the community in the form of little parks for the community children to play on slides, there are benches scattered in the communities for perhaps people to sit outside in good weather while the kids play. The complete neighborhood is lighted. The open spaces seem to be well maintained without...
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...Big State University Parking Services Memorandum To: Parking Garage Patrons On Campus From: Leevem Guessin, Manager Date: July 17, 2001 Re: Parking additions, removals, and closures Over the course of the summer, the parking garage committee has decided to change designated parking spots. Check the table below for the restructured parking areas. These changes allow parking to be more efficient when entering and exiting lots. Washtenaw Closure and Alternative Parking Method The Washtenaw Street Garage will be closed Monday, August 20, 2001 (first day of fall classes), for construction. The temporary parking controls will be installed in the State Street Garage in early July. Parking meters will be set up in the lot north of the Student Union as an alternative parking area. That lot will consist of meters, University vehicle spaces, and handicap parking spaces. Be aware there are no "A" spaces in that location. The Washtenaw lot is expected to reopen on September 19, 2001. Once construction is completed, we will update you on further parking changes. Removal and Additions to Parking Lots When you return to campus the following changes will be made: Additional Spots | Removed Spots | 183 new "B" spaces will be added to the Marfab Street Garage. | All "B" and "C" spaces will be removed from State Street Garage | 360 "C" spaces will be added at Dire Courts lot. | All "C" spaces will be removed from Marfab Street Garage | 100 "C" spaces will be added at Stale Courts...
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...I grabbed my helmet from the shelf. The sun had just risen, glowing through the trees like a flashlight on the damp grass. The car was packed to the top with show clothes, makeup, food, and drinks. We rolled into the parking lot. I slowly opened the door and rose out of the car, the the cool, morning air hitting me like a wave from the ocean. Already horses were being worked in the arenas on longlines. trotting around in circles to warm up their legs, probably getting dizzy. I approach the silver metal trailer, Goldie lifts her head up from her breakfast and looks at me, as if saying, “How are you this early morning?” Goldie tossed her head before returning to her hay. She had the biggest personality ever put inside a horse, and all the horses in the world, no matter how expensive, could never measure up to her. I walk up to her and give her a hug, before grabbing a brush and starting to rub her coat until all the dirt was gone. Next I got her bridle and slipped it over her ears. She didn't even hesitate when I asked to slip the bit in her mouth....
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...Driving Forces | Restraining Forces | 1. Time Period Restriction | Time commitment | 2. Parking Maximum | Environment | Driving Forces * Time Period Restriction Statistically, 80% of the students, staff and lecturers mostly prefer to use their own personal transportation rather than public transportation provided from UCSI University because of the luxury in terms of convenient driving their own car, time consume to reach on time rather than drive further from UCSI (example like parking at Giant and walk to UCSI which takes 10-15 minutes), short distance to walk from car park to classes or office and safety guaranteed from stolen car because a lot of cases in Malaysia where people steal cars without any traces. Although, the capacity of parking spaces are insufficient in UCSI University because of the population of the students, staff and lecturers are getting higher and almost everyone is driving to UCSI and park their car even though it cost them RM4 daily. A good strategic for UCSI Management use to solve this problem is to implement driving forces is the time period restriction. Due to insufficient car park spaces, management could make a strategic plan of time usage for selective parking spaces on the ground floor (from the entrance of UCSI car park and heading to the exit UCSI car park instead of the hilltop). UCSI University has their own IIS system where all information of each students, staff and lecturers will be recorded when they registered themselves...
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...found that just a bit of laughter can make the situation one hundred times better. When I lived in Alaska, my family and I faced some of the harshest winters on record. Moving from Maryland where it was odd if we even accumulated a foot of snow during the winter months, we were in for a big change. We moved to Anchorage Alaska in January, right in the middle of the winter. I had never seen so much snow in my life. Because of so much snow accumulation, businesses would constantly have to use giant snowplows to remove all of the snow from the parking lots. After the plows had scraped all the snow off the top of the surface, it was not out of the ordinary for there to be a solid sheet of ice covering the parking lots. Being a new resident of the state, I underestimated at how much ice would actually be throughout the parking lot. When the parking lots were full of ice I always thought that it was the most fun thing in the world to slide across the ice on my feet. I found this fun and all, until one day it took a turn for the worst. We were at the local Wal-Mart and we had just got dumped on with four feet of snow. The snowplows were right in the middle of clearing out the parking lot so they were leaving paths of solid ice, perfect for sliding on. My mom never fancied me sliding across the ice. She would always say...
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...Executive Summary With the number of population increasing in city, where it leads to the increment of vehicles. The sufficient of parking spaces for the cars has become a big challenge for all the businesses. This paper will identify the common problems faced nowadays in the shopping malls in Malaysia. An idea (smartphone application) will be proposed for customers to book parking space before going to the shopping mall, check the availability of parking spaces for certain shopping malls pay the parking and enhance the payment for the parking facilities, to overcome the parking problems. This application will integrate the parking facilities, where drivers can book the parking space, pay the parking fees, avoid from wasting time and petrol in searching optimal parking space. The application is to benefits the drivers to shopping malls and also enhance the service quality of a shopping mall. Contents Title: Integrated Smart Phone Apps for Shopping Mall Parking 3 1.0 Introduction 4 2.0 Problem Statement 5 2.1 Insufficient of parking spaces respond to the growth of population 5 2.2 Distance of parking spaces to the entrance shopping mall 5 2.3 Time consuming in searching parking space 5 2.4 Common issues on the Kiosk machine 6 3.0 Aim 7 3.1 Objective 7 4.0 Research Questions 8 4.1 Domain Questions 8 4.2 Technical questions 8 5.0 Research design 9 5.1 Observation 9 5.1.1 Sample questions for questionnaire 9 5.2 Observation 13 ...
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...Question 1 Due to a shortage of space for surface parking lots, the University is considering the development of a new policy for the re-allocation of all existing parking permits. Briefly describe two reasonable policies that might be considered, the strengths and weaknesses of each, and what data and information you would attempt to obtain as a basis for the evaluation of the various alternatives. Answer: 1. Alternation of vehicles: in Brazil is a practice commonly used, which consists of the relay boards that can drive around the city in this case parking on predetermined days. For example, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday can only park the car with plates ending with numbers between 0 and 5, and on Tuesday and Thursday only plates ending with numbers between 6 and 9. This encourages users to use alternative form of transport such as bus, bicycle, rideshare. • Strengths: - Decreased the cars flow in the parking lot and the traffic of the city. - The current space is sufficient to accommodate the cars in the parking lot of UofR. - Encourages people to use alternative transportation and harm the environment less. • Weaknesses: - Restricts mobility of people because there are places in town that take a long time to take a bus or no bus routes nearby. - Reduces the comfort and practicality - In days of snowfall the locomotion becomes difficult if you have to take a bus. 2. Increasing the rate of parking and offer discounts according to the number of people inside...
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...[pic] La Fiesta Marketing Plan Deanna Huneycutt [pic] La Fiesta, Marketing Plan I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY La Fiesta is an authentic Mexican restaurant located in the small town of Greenwood, population of just under 9,000 people. Opened and owned by Able Gonzales since 1995, it has become a very popular eatery in the town. As with most restaurants, La Fiesta has peak times around lunch and dinner that are much busier than the rest of the day. This causes scheduling challenges for cooks and wait staff. Another challenged faced, although a somewhat positive one, is the lack of parking space during the peak hours. Also, the bottleneck around customers paying out could be eased with some change in procedures or additional equipment. The marketing plan was developed based off a SWOT analysis and focuses on continued growth and customer relations. La Fiesta can gain visibility in the community by being more involved with the school district and expanding into social networking. Another focus of the plan is the efficiency of customer service and ease of congestion inside and outside of the restaurant. Better communication between wait staff and customers is also addressed. Since La Fiesta is a restaurant, it is considered a business-to-customer marketer. II. ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS Open since 1995, La Fiesta has made a strong presence in the town of Greenwood. It was established after another authentic Mexican restaurant...
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