PART 1 PLEASE RESPOND IN 275 WORDS

Managing Inventory

•Describe a retail business with which you are familiar and determine the most suitable means of inventory control. Provide specific examples to support your response.

•For the same business, discuss what innovative steps you could take to deter employee theft and/or shoplifting

ORIGINAL WORK, NO PLAGIARISM, 1 REFERENCE

PART 2 PLEASE RESPOND AND COMENT TO THIS DISCUSSION NO LESS THE 175 WORDS BASE ON 1 CREDIBLE RESORCE

Describe a retail business with which you are familiar and determine the most suitable means of inventory control. Provide specific examples to support your response.

I was just in K-mart yesterday and I was searching for a toddler car seat for my 1 year old daughter. I became infatuated with this Minnie Mouse car seat, but when I brought it to the checkout counter, the clerk told me it was the display item and they do not sell display items. So as i went back to search for the car seat in a box, there weren’t any! The car seat was on display but none were available, not even stocked in the back. I think K-mart can function properly if they engage the JIT inventory system just as Wal-Mart! It will make it easier to stock an item every time and item is sold to keep up with the demand for that product.

•For the same business, discuss what innovative steps you could take to deter employee theft and/or shoplifting.

I think that Wal-Malt should install mobile cameras on the aisles! The traditional security cameras have proven to be a failure, shop lifters hardly ever get caught these days, especially with the quality of the video on these "high cost" cameras! Wal-Mart should hire employees just for this monitoring system, they are to watch the cameras at all times and if they catch a shop lifter on the camera, immediate protocol should be implemented!

ORIGINAL WORK, NO PLAGIARISM, 1 REFERENCE