INTEGRATIVE CASE
1
Background of the chosen firm:
The Walmart U.S. is Walmart’s biggest division and is accounting for 331.666 billion
dollars. This is about 65% of the overall sales for the fiscal year 2019. This comprise of 3 retail
formats commonplace for US. These are Neighborhood markets, Discount Stores, Supercenters and
additional small type of formats. Here, the discount stores has been selling various and mainly non-
grocery products. This is though focusing that has changed towards the supercenters including more
number of groceries (Goldstein, 2019).
Discussion on strategic problem:
Firstly, there is the employee treatment and conditions of working. They has been receiving
lawsuits and criticisms various times about their workforces. The poor conditions of working,
inadequate healthcare and low wages are some of the problems criticized publically. Then, there is
the huge san of control. This is largely of extended size and huge span of management leaving then
weak at few sectors. Besides, there are thin profit margins (Ellickson, 2016). For Walmart the
concentration has been on the strategy of cost leadership. This leads to thin margins of profit for
Walmart.

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