Ethics and Social Responsibility Sears Auto Center Scandal Managing Business Ethics Text (pp.207 - 210) Ethical Decision-making Issue: Should Sears remove its commission-based compensation scheme? Group Stand: The majority of the group believes that Ellen should be removed from the team. Support for Motion: Rawl’s theory/Egalitarianism The underlying inequality is that car owners are paying for repair services they do not require while Sears benefits by earning higher profits. This
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SEARS‚ ROEBUCK‚ AND CO. THE AUTO CENTER SCANDAL History and Introduction of Sear‚ Roebuck‚ and Co. Sears‚ Roebuck and Co began in the 19th century and sold farm supplies and consumer items as a small mail order company. The first Sears retail store opened up in Chicago on the 2nd February 1925 in the building named the Merchandise. This store had included a soda fountain and an optical shop. The first detached and separate retail store opened up on the 5th October 1925 in a city called Evansville
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SEARS‚ ROEBUCK‚ AND CO.: THE AUTO CENTER SCANDAL Sears‚ Roebuck‚ and Co. began in the late 1800s as a mail-order company that sold farm supplies and other consumer items. Its first retail store opened in the mid-1920s. Responding to changes in American society‚ such as the move from farms to factories and the presence of the automobile in many homes‚ hundreds of retail stores opened over the years. The company expanded rapidly‚ and eventually it diversified to include other businesses: insurance
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SEAR ROEBUCKS SWOT ANALYSIS Author Diane Hughes SEARS HISTORY Richard Sears was agent of the Minneapolis andSt. Louis railway station. He sold lumber and coal to local residents in his spare time. When he received a shipment of unwanted watches he purchased himself and began selling them at a good profit to other station agent up and down the line. In 1886 Sears began the R.W. Sears Watch Company. In 1887 he moved the business to Chicago and put an adin the local paper for a Watchman
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technologically advanced online mega retailers. Retail stores such as BestBuy‚ Sears‚ and Blockbuster are on the verge of going out of the business due to customers’ increasing online purchases from Amazon‚ Overstock‚ and Buy.com. Click stores are able to gain competitive advantage over brick and mortar stores by maintaining low inventory‚ fewer employees‚ and by providing a personalized shopping experience. At one point‚ Sears dominated the full line retail market by providing its customers various mid
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out that Sears did engage in the Elf initiative for two reasons. On the one hand‚ it wanted to acquire new customers and persuade competitors’ customers and on the other hand to build relationships with the existing customers in order to retain them. Having this in mind‚ one could argue that all customers (loyal or not‚ new or existing) will benefit from the Elf program and that all shoppers represent a firmly good and promising target for such an initiative. With the Elf program‚ Sears will be in
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Business and Industry Analysis Business Analysis Sears Roebuck & Co.‚ founded by R. W. Sears in 1886‚ is a multi-line retailer that offers a variety of merchandise and related services. It operates primarily in the United States‚ Puerto Rico‚ and Canada. Sears‚ Roebuck‚ & Co. is ranked fifth in 3 the retail market‚ behind: Wal-mart Stores Inc.‚ Target Corp.‚ Kohl’s Corp‚ and JC Penney Company Inc. In 2003‚ the company was divided into three domestic segments: Retail and Related Services‚ Credit
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Zachary Zarilla Eng 112 The Sears Tower In May of 1973‚ electrical workers sang “she towers so high‚” as the final white beam‚ with over 12‚000 signatures was lifted into the sky to complete the construction of the Sears Tower. The Sears Tower is the tallest building in North America‚ and was the tallest in the world until 1998 when it was surpassed by the Petronas Tower in Malaysia(PBS‚ 2001). When completed in 1973 it was an engineering masterpiece and still is today. In the late 60’s
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1. How do the retailing strategies of Sears and Walmart differ? Company Background-Sears • Founded in 1891‚ operated solely as a catalog business • In 1924‚ expanded into retail stores in shopping mall ▫ Sold a variety of merchandise including apparel‚ cosmetics‚ jewelry‚ electronic‚ household appliances…. • Early 1980s‚ faced with declining market share ▫ Target audience of middle class female shoppers ▫ Slogan ”Come see the softer side of Sears” Company Background-Walmart • Founded in 1962‚ opened
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Moreover‚ I went inside Sears and in the shoe section I saw a child who might have been three or four years playing with an airplane toy on the floor‚ while his mother was trying on shoes. The child move his blue and white airplane back and forth‚ while making an airplane sound. The mother will insist him in Spanish to stand up because the floor was dirty but the child did not care and kept playing. On the other hand‚ went I was at the food court I saw a child (about 4 years old) who was just playing
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