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My summary Google vs. wal-mart

Kroze

Kroze

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Bigger is not always better as Google continue to show the world how to run a successful business. Founded in 1999, Google has more than quadruple its stock value from a respectable $85 initial public offering and reign the number 1 spot on Fortune magazine?s best company to work for. On the flip side, the retail behemoth Wal-Mart has been on a downward spiral since CEO Lee Scott took over in January of 2000. Since Lee Scott took over in 2000, Wal-Mart?s stock price has plummeted 22 percent. So what went right and wrong between the Google and Wal-Mart? It seems that Google follow the philosophy of; if you take care of the people, they will take care of you. Google spoiled all of their employees with ridiculous amount of fringe benefits. Wal-Mart on the other hand took a different approach; cut cost at every way imaginable to maximize the bottom line, even at the expense of employees? wages and benefits. While the employees at Google enjoyed staying till 3 a.m. debating over some engineering esoteric algorithmic conundrum, Wal-Mart is settling a $78 million dollars class action lawsuit filed by their own employees for denying breaks and forcing them to work off the clock.
 
Does Walmart give it's services out for free to countless millions in the hopes of grabbing up enough to make a [in this case SERIOUS] profit?

To head up the eventual onslaught:

Google is made up of great minds and their business is in intelligence and data management and delivery.

Walmart is made up of lower-class drones that peddle the cheapest crap the world can produce in massive quantities and at the lowest prices.


All I would say is that one is in an industry that is completely about Quality of service where people only care about you while the Quality of service is high, while the other is in an industry that is completely about volume transfer and lowest price of consumer goods that people only care about while volumes are high and the prices are low.


 
Originally posted by: amdforever2
The businesses are too different to be compared like that.
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i don't know what to write so that's how it's going to be. the professor wanted 1 summary covering both of them.


But please fix my grammars 🙁
 
Google search used to pull up useful results, now it is all advertizing driven crap. What is so great about that?

 
Originally posted by: Kroze
Originally posted by: amdforever2
The businesses are too different to be compared like that.
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i don't know what to write so that's how it's going to be. the professor wanted 1 summary covering both of them.


But please fix my grammars 🙁
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Do your own homework.
 
Originally posted by: doze
Google search used to pull up useful results, now it is all advertizing driven crap. What is so great about that?
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I know, but I've found that other search engines are beyond hope. At least if you know how to use Google it is still awesome.
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Does Walmart give it's services out for free to countless millions in the hopes of grabbing up enough to make a [in this case SERIOUS] profit?

To head up the eventual onslaught:

Google is made up of great minds and their business is in intelligence and data management and delivery.

Walmart is made up of lower-class drones that peddle the cheapest crap the world can produce in massive quantities and at the lowest prices.


All I would say is that one is in an industry that is completely about Quality of service where people only care about you while the Quality of service is high, while the other is in an industry that is completely about volume transfer and lowest price of consumer goods that people only care about while volumes are high and the prices are low.
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like i said, i have to cover both of them in a short summary and that's how the summary's going to be. wal-mart is also losing their business motto of always low prices because they have been taking a larger profit for each items sold. from 22% in 1999 to 25% last year. they're losing their vision of selling in quantity and start to get greedy by taking a bigger profit for each item sold.

 
Originally posted by: Kroze
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Does Walmart give it's services out for free to countless millions in the hopes of grabbing up enough to make a [in this case SERIOUS] profit?

To head up the eventual onslaught:

Google is made up of great minds and their business is in intelligence and data management and delivery.

Walmart is made up of lower-class drones that peddle the cheapest crap the world can produce in massive quantities and at the lowest prices.


All I would say is that one is in an industry that is completely about Quality of service where people only care about you while the Quality of service is high, while the other is in an industry that is completely about volume transfer and lowest price of consumer goods that people only care about while volumes are high and the prices are low.
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like i said, i have to cover both of them in a short summary and that's how the summary's going to be. wal-mart is also losing their business motto of always low prices because they have been taking a larger profit for each items sold. from 22% in 1999 to 25% last year. they're losing their vision of selling in quantity and start to get greedy by taking a bigger profit for each item sold.
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1. do your own damn homework. I am simply disagreeing on your method of comparison and how rigid and relative it is.

2. Walmart quality? the only product they sell is an image of low prices and friendly service. I don't know about you but I sometimes feel like telling the welcome guy to fvk off when they get in my face and wouldn't give a damn if they were there at all relative to the cheap prices. That said, I barely ever buy at walmart because that places messes with my mind. Everyone seems too 'greedy' in there and I feel like I do at buffets, like a pig in a sty eating my feed.

3. Google sells itself. Walmart sells the products of others, over which it doesn't necessarily have complete aesthetic and quality control (what type of ingredients they use in soy milk or the packaging on crayon boxes etc....the presentational stuff. ) since they sell a bunch of cheap crap.
 
I'm sure a comparison like yours might fly in class, but logically, there are too many omitted factors that prove the statement to be a consolidation of information respective only to the earnings and losses of a company without respect to their industry, products, services etc.

You know, how they ACTUALLY MAKE THEIR MONEY


BTW< check out that run on..she's a bute.
 
Ugh Walmart. I wish it would go away but unfortunately there are too many money strapped people in this world to shop elsewhere when they can save a buck or two at that disgusting store.
 
Are you implying that if Wal-Mart treated its workers better, "staying till 3 a.m. debating over some engineering esoteric algorithmic conundrum" would become "staying till 3 a.m. debating over which dog food to put on the endcap of the aisle"??
 
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