Question: Match the items. Question 1 options: External Environment: Economic Immediate Environment: Collaborators External Environment: Technological Intermediate Environment: Consumers Macro Environment: Political / Regulatory / Legal

Match the items.
Question 1 options:
External Environment: Economic
Immediate Environment: Collaborators
External Environment: Technological
Intermediate Environment: Consumers
Macro Environment: Political/Regulatory/Legal
Immediate Environment: Company
External Environment: Social/Cultural
Immediate Environment: Competitor
1.
Fastenal tripled its industrial vending machine contracts in 2013.
2.
Needs quick convenient access to supplies and maintenance items but doesn't want to track and maintain inventory of these minor items.
3.
Fastenal has slowed its pace of opening new stores since the recession in 2009 to a range of 2 percent to 5 percent a year.
4.
Using web-based software, you can track usage by individual as well as job, group and other meaningful data. You only pay for dispensed items, and when stock runs low the local Fastenal store receives an automated alert to come out and refill the machine.
5.
Fastenal partnered with Roush Fenway Racing and Carl Edwards to win seven times during the NASCAR Nationwide Series Schedule.
6.
Grainger introduced a new iPad app to manage inventory with its KeepStock Secure Solution (industrial vending).
7.
Fastenal receives zoning variance to construct $15M automated distribution center in Indianapolis.
8.
Supporting the Green movement - Fastenal introduced Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles in select locations to lower fuel costs and emissions.

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