At present, the most important goal for Wal-Mart is to maintain their current net sales growth of approximately 12 percent per year. As the world’s largest company, Wal-mart’s own vast size serves as the main impediment to achieving this goal.Furthermore, Wal-mart may have saturated the market in the United States thereby limiting its ability to expand domestically. The best solution for achieving the above goal is to expand into international markets that have large population centers.
Increasing net sales at 12 percent per year is the most important goal because it offers Wal-Mart and its shareholders the highest probability of maintaining or increasing their return on equity. Alternatively, return on equity could possibly be improved by increasing the overall efficiency of the organization by reducing operating costs or cost of goods sold. However, by demanding concessions from suppliers and requiring them to use Retail Link Wal-Mart is already an industry leader in reducing......
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