I. Introduction
Wal-Mart is a world-wide active American retail trade company and currently the largest retail company in the world. Beginning in 1962, Wal-Mart has made the transition from a small firm in Arkansas to the largest employer with 3, 800 store units in the United States with record revenues today. But nevertheless, since Wal-Mart launched its online branch, it had to suffer from substantial setbacks from competitors such as Amazon.com or Ebay.
The intention of this case study is to evaluate Wal-Marts.com’s profitability of success regarding its situation in 1999.
II. Discussion Questions
II.1 What is the impact of Wal-Mart.com on customer-borne transaction costs?
Wal-Mart’s business philosophy is based on the simple idea, Sam Walton had in mind, when he first founded his business – making the customer No. 1. It is Wal-Mart.com’s goal to bring this culture and philosophy to the Internet.
Wal-Mart.com is very ambitious to combine technology and world-class......
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