The two retail companies picked are Walmart and Costco whose 2017 Financial statement links are provided below: WALMART https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ wmt/financials?query=income- statement COSTCO https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ cost/financials?query=income- statement Both organizations are well known brands and position themselves well with their customer base. Walmart’s value proposition is “We save people money so they can live better”. On the other hand, Costco’s value proposition is “All-in-one convenience and everyday affordability”. Both retailers focus on cost saving for their customers. Looking at their financial statements and by analyzing them a few key areas are evident when comparing the two organization. Looking at the current ratio and quick ratio we can determine the short-term solvency of each organization. The current ratio can be determined by dividing the assets by the liabilities. Walmart’s current ratio sits at 0.86 while Costco’s sits at 0.99. The quick ratio is c
“Marriages are made in heaven”- the old adage still holds sense some believe. Though the phenomenal rise of broken marriages; puts me in doubt. Do God approve broken marriage! Perhaps not; so no more marriages are made in heaven; I infer. Marriages are initiated either by love ( mostly calculated) or by arrangement in this part of our planet. When a marriage takes place as result of love between the bride and groom; well their parents have hardly any role to play. Except arranging and witnessing the marriage and of course wishing the bride would fit in groom's there after. This is true specially for nuclear family and they are parents of groom. Parents of bride enjoys more freedom, as some believe, as for their case it's almost like a take-over. They get their daughter married and get a son in term of son-in-law. Given to the fact when the daughter is economically independent; either earning by herself or has earning from other sources. Her parent expects or sometime covertly demand the service from their son-in-law in the name of duties! Poor boys sometime get entrapped and later seek salvation breaking their marriage. Sometime the reverse is true for the bride as well; though usually such incidents are rare; mostly they take their groom out of his parent’s hold and start a separate family.
You can not deny the laws of nature; this is what going on in the unorthodox developed world for quite sometime. European or American parents hardly expect their son to stay with them after marriage; specially in the developed worlds. Now, this is becoming the norm in Indian urban society too. But still the expectation lingers. This more true in case of arrange marriage. Parents of boys hunt for brides that would be homely being educated and employed . Though the same parents may consider full independence for their married daughters. What a irony; I think,
Anyway my first experience to search the bride for my son is really an eye opener! An ad in my vernacular news paper attracted my attention. The girl is 21 years old and studying M.SC being a 1st class graduate in physics, with 5'.5” height for my 6' tall son appeared interesting. The ad carried a phone number. I rang up. A lady responded and told me she was the mother. I humbly submitted where I am from and what my son is. The rapid fire of queries started , like the name of engineering college, name of company where he serves , whether the college is accredited by AICTE and many more seemed to be in the pipe line. I was rather puzzled as I expected only to exchange of information about family set ups; cultures and background ( may be socio-economic) for opening the negotiations. But her burst of queries in the line of material facts put me at my wits end! It is something like buying goods from hawkers and felt when holy marriages are negotiated with such manners at the beginning , where they will end!
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