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Article Summary \# "Article Title" Article Source Article Date (Articles should be dated within the last 6 months) Article Link: Company Profile: Include a brief profile of the company, including (but not limited to): - Subsidiary of another (parent) organization - Main products/services - Relative number of employees - CEO/President'sName - Headquarters - Revenue - Any other information that may be pertinent based on the article Book Topic: What book topic does the article highlight? Include Chapter and definition (or brief description) of the topic. Article Summary \& Analysis: Summarize the article, integrating the book topic with the article. Also mention how this applies to management. - Costco Wholesale Corporation is an International membership warehouse chain. Costco sells merchandise at lower prices than other stores usually In bulk. - CEO is Craig Jelinek - 788 warehouses woridwide - 101.8 million cardholders - $149.4 billion in annual revenues - 243,000 full and part-time employees worldwide Book Topic Ethics and Social Responsibility: A company's stance on social responsibility is the way its managers and employees vlew their duty or obligation to make decisions that protect, enhance, and promote the : welfare and well-being of stakeholders and soclety as a whole. Summary and Analysis Costco has decided to extend their Special Operating Hours indefinitely amid the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 24th Costco instituted new hours of operations to protect its more vulnerable customers. Seniors and immunocompromised customers have the option to shop between the hours of 9AM and 10AM Monday through Friday. During this time, only people of 60 years old or higher and those who vulnerable are free to shop. Costco was expected to return to normal operating hours on July 13 , however, due to rise in cases costco feels that they need to extend this operating procedure indefinitely. Until further notice, the Special Operating Hours are the new norm and will be instituted - Waimart is a corporation that operates department stores and grocery stores, sometimes together in one building. - Walmart employs 2.2 million people in the U.S. alone - The CEO of Walmart U.S. is Doug McMillion - Bentonville, Arkansas is where Walmart headquarters is located. - 2020 fiscal year revenue: $524 billion Book Topic: Strategic Management: Building Competitive Advantage - the combination of a firm's resources (physical and human) and capabilities (what the firm does well), in order to create along-term sustainable advantage Article Summary and Analysis: Walmart and Walmart CEO Doug MeMillion have just unveiled a new subscription service called Waimart+ to compete with Amazon's Prime. On the surface Walmart+ looks very similar to Prime but one major difference is Walmart+ is built to take advantage of and amplify the fact that it has physical commercial locations, something Amazon does not. Walmart has decided that physicality of a service is as important, if not more important, than just low prices, selection and convenience and that is what Walmart+ is all about. The article points out 11 new services, including inexpensive medical checkups and dental exams, concierge service for seniors and at-risk populations, converting parking lots into drive-in movie theaters, to name a few. All these new services require a physical location. By introducing innovative services, Innovation being one of the building blocks of competitive advantage, Walmart is leveraging the fact that it has 4,753 stores, to offer services that Amazon just cannot