EVALUATING FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

Evaluating Financial Performance

Evaluating Financial Performance

About Wal-Mart

Wal-mart Stores, Inc. is a U.S. based multinational company and the largest retailer in the world in terms of sales and number of employees. Its business concept is a convenience store (available in every district), low prices and high volumes.

Sam Walton founded the company in 1962, and in October 31, 1969 the company was incorporated. The listing of the company took place in 1972 on the New York Stock Exchange market. Wal-mart is the biggest private employer and the largest grocery retailer in the United States. It also owns the wholesale stores Sam's Club operating in North America.

About Target

Target Corporation is a chain of department stores, founded in the state of USA in 1962. It is the largest retail company in the United States, behind Wal-Mart, The Home Depot, Kroger, Sears Holdings Corporation and Costco and is listed in 27th position in the 2005 Fortune 500. Target is the third largest music store place in terms of sales and inventory.

Target has over hundred stores in different locations in about 50 states. The company also has plans to enter in the markets of Canada, Western Europe, Japan and Mexico. Until 2004, the company was also well known in the business of clothing retail by the name of Mervyn's.

Economic

Economic components are an issue of anxiety for Wal-Mart and Target since they influence exactly buying behaviour of customers. While the UK Treasury, was announced officially in a recession in 2008, a significant decrease in concern of the types of government help to minimize increase in job losses during the year 2009 (Euromonitor, 2010, p . 1974-1985). As a result, the purchasing power of buyers back into a steady growth, and they are more confident about their economic situation. However, until now, many of the economic importance of a doubt that buyers are likely to spend less on high-quality products, including organic and prepared foods, which negatively affects the cost of sales and margins.

However, the positive edge drop is that customers consume less and consume more on housing, which presents opportunities for grocery retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target to increase its profitability (Guardian, 2010). This should be documented that food is the last thing that customers will be hell again.

Societal

The community study from Britain shows that there is more to the left of the young people living with the "baby boom (Journal of Scotland, 2010). Elderly in the community is disappointing for retailers of food to the elderly tend to consume less. They are less likely to travel to the malls to shop in the evaluation of the younger generation. Although Internet literacy class falls on the age of 65 years within the community, which was out to predict that at the age of the community is in the Internet shopping more convenient. However, there is little supply is recommended to be ineffective and costly.

Technical

Mobile experience has also emerged as a stage for the movement in retail ...