"Não tentes competir com a China no custo, ou com a Walmart no preço"A Walmart é um autêntico paradigma do sucesso baseado na eficiência, baseado em rapar o tacho até ao limite. Quando os membros da tríade (políticos, académicos e paineleiros) falam em aumentar a produtividade e a eficiência, têm quase sempre na mente o modelo de negócio da Walmart baseado na eficiência e na escala.
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O modelo da Walmart tem-lhe trazido sucesso. Contudo, até esse modelo tem os seus limites, como se pode ver em "Walmart Memo Orders Stores to Improve Grocery Performance":
"The dairy section in the Walmart supercenter here, just across the border from Queens, was sparsely stocked. Some gallon jugs of milk were dented, others soiled with what looked like dirt. The meat aisle had run out of ground beef patties and strip steak, and residue streaked some shelves.O eficientismo funciona até deixar de funcionar.
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The disarray and out-of-stock items at just one store appear to be examples of wider problems that Walmart is pressing store managers to address.
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Some retail analysts say these problems stem from Walmart’s failure to have enough employees in its stores to do the many chores needed, like marking down aging items, rotating milk or getting needed goods from the back room to stock shelves.
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“Labor hours have been cut so thin, that they don’t have the people to do many activities,”"