A Retail Store Sells a Popular Cosmetic Called Devine and the Store

question 61

Essay

A retail store sells a popular cosmetic called Devine and the store manager was given $300,000 by the corporate office to improve store performance any way she thinks best. The "base case" information is a price of $30 per bottle, a contribution margin of 0.50, a customer defection rate of 20%, and a repurchase frequency of 3 times a year. If these improvement funds could be used to either (a) increase the contribution margin to 0.60 or (b) reduce the customer defection rate to 12% or (c) increase the repurchase frequency to 4 times per year, what is the best way to spend these improvement funds? (Assume all other variables remain at the base case level for each of the three improvement options.)
a.What is the value of a loyal customer (VLC) for improvement option (a)?
b.What is the best way to use the $300,000 in improvement funds?

Analyze the impact of downsizing and restructuring on employees.

Identify organizational interventions to support employees through downsizing.

Recognize the immediate and insidious consequences of downsizing and restructuring.

Develop strategies for aligning strategic human resource planning with organizational strategy.

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Definitions:

Easy Entry

A characteristic of market structures where new competitors can easily enter the market without significant barriers or cost.

Constant-Cost Industry

An industry in which the costs of production, including input prices, do not change as the industry's output changes.

Economic Profits

Profits calculated after subtracting both the explicit and implicit costs from total revenues; also known as supernormal profits.

Economic Profits

The difference between total revenue and total costs, including both explicit and implicit costs, representing additional earnings beyond the normal profit level.