is published and produced by Matt Thommes - an independent publishing enthusiast, mobile blogger, content creator, informative writer, web developer from Chicago.
Never one to conform, Matt intends to promote the effect the web has on our lives, in an effort to intensify, instruct, and clarify all that is happening around us.
I find that "corporate overload," resulting from the current branding and franchising methods, by certain large organizations, has created a "tight choakhold on America."
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# (1 of 1): Shell » imdz.com
4 days, 1 hour after the fact. (Tue 29 Jun 2004, 8:12 PM CST)
Just to let you know that there is a lot of planning that goes into where a company will place their next store. If the market in a particular area will not support another store, then they will not place it. When a store opens, they survey the area for traffic and survey people in that area about the possbility of a store opening. These are just a few things they do. Despit the fact that some may feel coporate america is money sucking, they too have a business to run like just like anyone else and if they position a store in an over crowded area, the store will not do so well and fail. Also another little tip, dont get sick to fast of stores popping up, becuase with in the next few years you will see more stores leaving their traditional mall settings to go to areas such as village crossing. Oh, and by the way Home Depot is spread out a lot more than other stores and you and i both only know of 2 stores at all that are anywhere close to our houses. Coporate america is also responding to the needs of the consumer wanting more convience, mutiple things in one area, less driving less trips all over the place, consumers want to have everything in one place, that is why walmarts with grocery stores and same with kmarts do well. You can get your grocerys and undies in the same place. Technology too has now forced these stores to offer a wide variety, you can buy anythin on the web and they need to compete with that. In conclusion, as a marketer and further coporate american, what is happening is to meet the demands and needs of the consumer, and everything is done with a great amount of research prior to actually breaking ground.