...Name: Nikunj Patel Course(sect.): COMM 1133(05) Teacher: Keith Hobbs Date: 26th Nov 2014 Impact of e-commerce on traditional bricks and mortar retailers 21’st century has brought tremendous development of information technology ,and brought innovative and unique ideas to the whole world. Adoption of information technology ,internet and computer network have transformed the mode of operation of many business. E-Commerce has become the market trend of the century, it has came up with a unique way of business strategy, particularly in terms of pricing, convenience and product availability that draws consumer attention to buy products/goods online rather than through traditional bricks and mortar retailers. Taking about the most important factor that attracts consumer towards e-commerce is low pricing. Online stores only need to manage inventory in a warehouse, one store can serve all consumers. This allows them to focus on price , as their fundamental operating costs are typically lower. Hence online sites puts daily deals and offer cheaper pricing on products. “Most admit ,offline discounts can hardly eve match what’s on offer online”(Anonymus,2014,Retailers stumble as traffic heads to e-commerce sites, paragraph 3).Apart from that ,online sites have now started their own brands. ”So instead of taking clothes from, say Calvin Klein and selling them over the web, companies are now making their own clothes. This allows them to match traditional competitors...
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...The first little pig built his house out of straw because it was the easiest thing to do. The second little pig built his house out of sticks. This was a little bit stronger than a straw house. The third little pig built his house out of bricks. One night the big bad wolf, who dearly loved to eat fat little piggies, came along and saw the first little pig in his house of straw. He said "Let me in, Let me in, little pig or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in!" "Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin", said the little pig. But of course the wolf did blow the house in and ate the first little pig. The wolf then came to the house of sticks. "Let me in ,Let me in little pig or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in" "Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin", said the little pig. But the wolf blew that house in too, and ate the second little pig. The wolf then came to the house of bricks. " Let me in , let me in" cried the wolf "Or I'll huff and I'll puff till I blow your house in" "Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin" said the pigs. Well, the wolf huffed and puffed but he could not blow down that brick house. But the wolf was a sly old wolf and he climbed up on the roof to look for a way into the brick house. The little pig saw the wolf climb up on the roof and lit a roaring fire in the fireplace and placed on it a large kettle of water. When the wolf finally found the hole in the chimney he crawled down and KERSPLASH right into that...
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...shapes of beautiful curves. Aluminium being the lightest and durable is more in use these days. However they are only best used for level ground without much undulation, and their sharp top edge can easily cut bare feet. So, the top should be rounded off after installation. Log edging Log and Bamboo edging can be laid by keeping logs that are well seasoned upright and driven into the ground like piles. Combined with gravel backing, they not only help to retain the lawn soil that may be on the ground or raised, but also gives a seaside appearance to the garden. They can be modified or cut on the top portion to give a wavy appearance, and coloured varyingly to create pleasing looks. Brick and concrete block edging Bricks are widely available cheap and choice for landscape edging in many regions. Brick and block edging can be done in several ways. They can be laid as pavers over a bed of sand, pushed together tightly so that no turf can pass through the gaps. Pavers provide wide border that keeps grass out of the garden yet allows the flowers to spill over them. They do not get mowed over...
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...pray for her health to regain. The wind blew hard, and the rain poured, but the last leaf still remained, dangling bravely on the thin, wet branch. Meanwhile, Mr. Behrman, an old painter, poses for Sue’s new sketch. He always talked about his newest masterpiece, but he never manages to finish them all the way. Lesson or Moral of the Story: Never give up nor lose hope. Always have faith in yourself, in your family, and in the almighty God above. that we should always help our loved ones even if we have to face the worst things too. Imagery: There was only a bare, dreary yard to be seen, and the blank side of the brick house twenty feet away. An old, old ivy vine, gnarled and decayed at the roots, climbed half way up the brick wall. The cold breath of autumn had stricken its leaves from the vine until its skeleton branches clung, almost bare, to the crumbling bricks. Symbolism: The last leaf symbolizes life and death. Before winter came, the tree was full of green, luscious leaves. And as time passes by, the leaves decayed and fell. The last leaf remained strong, just like Johnsy, and it only fell when it knew it was Mr. Behrman’s time to go. Conclusion: In the...
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...Types of bricks: My title for today is Types of bricks that normally used in construction .I believe that everyone of us also know what is bricks right? But do you all know there are many types of bricks? Bricks are normally solid or hollow in shape. All types of bricks can used for construction or some decorative function. Bricks are one of the longest lasting and strongest material used in construction throughout history. Bricks are stacked together by using mortar to make a permanent structure in a building. For example the wall of a building. Today I will present about 3 types of bricks that normally used in construction.There are mud bricks, burned bricks and cement bricks.Without wasting time, let me start my first point , mud bricks. Mud bricks are made by mixture of sticky clay and sand. The mixture will press into a mould. Then , the mud will left to dry slowly under the sun .This process will taking around 25 days. After that, the bricks are ready to use. The mud bricks are very economical and sound environmentally. These bricks are made by using natural materials and require so little of energy to produce. They are sun dried and simply manufactured.These bricks also very good in fire resistance. A standard mud brick wall can last 4 hours of fire hitting. The uses of mud bricks. They are used for construction and build. They are suitable used for construction of fire rated walls within buildings. The Great Mosque of Djenne in Mali is one of the building built by...
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...William Dillard founded Dillard’s Inc. in 1938 as a small store in his wife’s hometown. Mr. Dillard opened the store after working many summers in the retail industry and college. He also completed the management training course at Sears Roebuck and Company prior to the opening Dillard’s. His first store was located in Austin Texas. Over the years technology has been innovated and transformed how consumers shop. There are several different ways that the e-business can affect Dillard’s Inc., both internally and externally. Dillard’s Inc. has many advantages and disadvantages when dealing with e- business. Dillard’s Inc. is a store that sells clothing and many other household items. Most consumers love to shop whether it is online or in a brick and mortar location. There are advantages, limitations, and risks of using the Internet for the business activities. Advantages One advantage of Dillard’s, being that it is an e-business is that consumers can shop online and not have to leave their home. Another advantage is that it removes location and availability limitations for customers. In store there are hours of operation, which will limit the times when consumers can purchase items. Being an e-business allows consumers to make purchases when and where they like. There are often more products available online than in the store because local stores usually have limited storage. Reducing time and money spent is another advantage as an e-business can operate at a fraction of the...
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...Ceramics is one of the most ancient industries on the planet. Once humans discovered that clay could be dug up and formed into objects by first mixing with water and then firing, the industry was born. As early as 24,000 BC, animal and human figurines were made from clay and other materials, then fired in kilns partially dug into the ground. Almost 10,000 years later, as settled communities were established, tiles were manufactured in Mesopotamia and India. The first use of functional pottery vessels for storing water and food is thought to be around 9000 or 10,000 BC. Clay bricks were also made around the same time. Glass was believed to be discovered in Egypt around 8000 BC, when overheating of kilns produced a colored glaze on the pottery. Experts estimate that it was not until 1500 BC that glass was produced independently of ceramics and fashioned into separate items. Fast forward to the Middle Ages, when the metal industry was in its infancy. Furnaces at that time for melting the metal were constructed of natural materials. When synthetic materials with better resistance to high temperatures (called refractories) were developed in the 16th century, the industrial revolution was born. These refractories created the necessary conditions for melting metals and glass on an industrial scale, as well as for the manufacture of coke, cement, chemicals, and ceramics. Another major development occurred in the second half of the 19th century, when ceramic materials for electrical...
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...Grandma’s House My Grandmother’s house was a place that made me feel happy. It had many hiding places and I always found new fun things to do. Grandma’s house was like a home away from home. There was always good food to eat, lots of toys to play with and I could play dress up with grandma’s old clothes. I was the only child, so having something to do at my house was always a problem. At grandma’s house things never got old. There was never a dull moment in that house. The house was pretty old so it had a lot of hidden rooms and doors. Some of these doors lead to nowhere. I remember opening a door on the third floor that had just a brick wall behind it. I still wonder what that room use to be and why it was bricked up. Every time I found a new door id run to my grandma and ask her for a key to open it. She would smile and hand me a key ring full of keys and tell me I’d have to find which key it was. I would be there all day trying each key tell I opened the door. Rainy days where the best at grandma’s house. We would play games together. Grandma would hand me a sheet of paper and tell me to count all the windows and doors in the house. Each time I’d get a different number. I just don’t understand it! We would go out into the garden and I would name all the different bugs I saw. If I got to close to some of them I would get bitten but that never stopped me from going back the next day. Grandma’s house was always an adventure. I was always full and happy when I was...
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...in Pompeii and Ostia). he Roman Architectural Revolution, also known as the Concrete Revolution,[4][5][6] was the widespread use in Roman architecture of the previously little-used architectural forms of the arch, vault, and dome. For the first time in history, their potential was fully exploited in the construction of a wide range of civil engineering structures, public buildings, and military facilities. These included amphitheatres, aqueducts, baths, bridges, circuses, dams, domes,harbours, and temples. A crucial factor in this development, which saw a trend toward monumental architecture, was the invention of Roman concrete (opus caementicium), which led to the liberation of shapes from the dictates of the traditional materials of stone and brick.[7] The Romans...
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...fell by 11.6%. These figures indicate that people are no longer wanting a hard backed book that they are preferring in a more ‘convenient’ form of being able to access them where ever they are on their phones, tablets an e-readers. New entrants from online businesses can pose a significant threat to traditional bricks and mortar business due to the benefits they provide customers and consumers- in terms of lower search cost, greater flexibility and convenience, and lower prices (as a result of lower cost). An example of this is the closing down of HMV/xtravision and the introduction of Spotify and deezer. In the year of 2014 music which was bought in stores decreased by an outstanding 14.2% that was a loss from 32.4 million to 27.8 million (albums) and 12.5 percent, from 356.5 million to 312 million (tracks). Whereas, the downloads from sites such as Spotify and deezer increased of an astonishing 34.7 percent rise, form 25.44 billion streams to 34.28 billion. Businesses most likely to be at risk most likely at risk from the emergence of e-commerce and the subsequent competition from low costs online competitors are likely to be the smaller, traditional bricks and mortar businesses – as they are able to benefit the economies of scale...
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...“Bricks-and-Mortar” vs. “Clicks-and-Mortar”: an Equilibrium Analysis Fernando Bernstein Jing-Sheng Song Xiaona Zheng The Fuqua School of Business The Fuqua School of Business Guanghua School of Management Duke University Duke University Peking University Durham, NC 27708 Durham, NC 27708 Beijing, China 100871 Forthcoming in European Journal of Operational Research The Internet has provided traditional retailers a new means with which to serve customers. Consequently, many “bricks-and-mortar” retailers have transformed to “clicks-and-mortar” by incorporating Internet sales. Examples of companies making such a transition include Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Barnes & Noble, etc. Despite the increasing prevalence of this practice, several fundamental questions remain: (1) Does it pay off to go online? (2) Which is the equilibrium industry structure? (3) What is the implication of this business model for consumers? We study these issues in an oligopoly setting and show that clicks-and-mortar arises as the equilibrium channel structure. However, we find that this equilibrium does not necessarily imply higher profits for the firms: in some cases, rather, it emerges as a strategic necessity. Consumers are generally better off with clicks-and-mortar retailers. If firms align with pure e-tailers to reach the online market, we show that a prisoner’s dilemma-type equilibrium may arise. Keywords: Supply chain management, Game theory, E-commerce, MNL model...
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...Individual Report A Report submitted to Prof. Harsh Mander In partial fulfillment of the requirements of the course Good governance and people living in poverty On October 7th, 2013 By Pakki Lakshman Vivek PGP 12198 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, AHMEDABAD 1. Introduction a. Profile of the family visited Caste – Oad Person met – Govind (12 years) and his family Place – Chiada village near Ahmedabad Work – Nikasi School – Seasonal (Oct – March will not attend school) I visited workers in brick kiln site at Chiada gram panchayat. There I met people from different communities and castes. Brick kiln industry mainly involves three jobs – 1. Paatla 2. Jalai 3. Nikasi. Each work is a Speciality of a particular community. I visited Oad community people who mainly do the third phase of brick making. Most of these labours are migrant labours who work here till season ends and go back to their respective states. Oad community mainly hails from Rajasthan and northern Gujarat. The family whom I interviewed was from Rajasthan. Pics from the site 2. Social status Like other families in this industry Govind’s family is also a group of migrant workers. Although they are supposed to be a Rajput tribe but still they come under lower because of the job they traditionally did. They have no status in Gujarat, in fact only contractor and other families working in the same conditions...
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...TRADITIONAL BRICK IS MORE VULNERABLE IN EARTHQUAKE Dr. Ahmad Kamruzzaman Majumder The history of brick making is not known to me but nearly 2050 years ago temple were made of these traditional brick. Nowadays the style of making home is that the cement and sand is kept between two brick but previously it’s a clay that is kept between two brick. In ancient times the styles of roof were also different. It used to be flat tiles but nowadays concrete and steel are used for making the roof. In ancient times the tiles were also made up of clay mud after burning in the fire. Today in Bangladesh the size of brick is 9.5''X4.5''X2.75'' which is seen all over the country. This brick is kept one after another and make the wall. In between two brick the paste of cement and sand is being used as a binding material. The readers might think that all these things are earlier whenever we keep our eyes it is seen. What new to tell. My opinion is that year after year we are doing the same mistake to make our buildings in local construction practice by using those ancient clay brick. What is this mistake and to recover the mistake and doing appropriate work is not concerned by anyone. When I saw that one or two organization understood this problem and try to change the ancient brick use and to do something new and facing lots of criticism then there is no other way except being disappointed. honestly speaking when the use of clay brick started is not known to me but in some places some temples...
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...London Bridge is falling down, Falling down, falling down, London Bridge is falling down, My fair Lady. Build it up with sticks and stones, Sticks and stones, sticks and stones, Build it up with sticks and stones, My fair lady. Sticks and stones will all fall down, All fall down, all fall down, Sticks and stones will all fall down, My fair lady. Build it up with wood and clay, Wood and clay, wood and clay, Build it up with wood and clay, My fair Lady. Wood and clay will wash away, Wash away, wash away, Wood and clay will wash away, My fair Lady. Build it up with bricks and mortar, Bricks and mortar, bricks and mortar, Build it up with bricks and mortar, My fair Lady. Bricks and mortar will not stay, Will not stay, will not stay, Bricks and mortar will not stay, My fair Lady. Build it up with iron and steel, Iron and steel, iron and steel, Build it up with iron and steel, My fair Lady. Iron and steel will bend and bow, Bend and bow, bend and bow, Iron and steel will bend and bow, My fair Lady. Build it up with silver and gold, Silver and gold, silver and gold, Build it up with silver and gold, My fair Lady. Silver and gold will be stolen away, Stolen away, stolen away, Silver and gold will be stolen away, My fair Lady. Set a man to watch all night, Watch all night, watch all night, Set a man to watch all night, My fair Lady. Suppose the man should fall asleep, Fall asleep, fall asleep, Suppose the man should...
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................13 Marketing Plan...............................................................19 Financial Plan……….....................................................27 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Enviro-Mat is a construction company that seek to specialise in the manufacturing of building materials from waste. The main aim of the business is to reduce the amount of land and water pollution at a profit. Environ-Mat is aiming at producing workable bricks from post-consumer used products. Enviro-Mat is owned by four directors Mr Ngonidzashe Utete as the CEO, Miss Lavender Marisa, Miss Epiphania Rwodzi and Mr Noel Jiri as the board of directors. Enviro-Mat will provide a great deal of environmental responsibility by putting in place measures to facilitate that the environmental input of its operations is minimal. It intends to start operation by 1August 2013. The company projects US150000 in sales in year one. The market segments are clearly defined and all are subject to high growth trend. Enviro-Mat seeks to design the first local Polli-bricks from waste. A continuous and mass production method will be adopted by Enviro-Mat. The company maturity is projected to be 6 years as the company is potentially profitable in one year. BUSINESS...
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