the following appeared in a memo from the owner of a chain of cheese stores located throughout the United States.
"For many years all the stores in our chain have stocked a wide variety of both domestic and imported cheeses. Last year, however, all of the five best-selling cheeses at our newest store were domestic cheddar cheeses from Wisconsin. Furthermore, a recent survey by Cheeses of the World magazine indicates an increasing preference for domestic cheeses among its subscribers. Since our company can reduce expenses by limiting inventory, the best way to improve profits in all of our stores is to discontinue stocking many of our varieties of imported cheese and concentrate primarily on domestic cheeses."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
In this memoranda, the owner of cheese stores assumes that limiting the stocks to only best selling goods might bring them more profits. He took this idea by analyzing recent sales pattern and the survey done by a reputed magazine. However, before executing these changes in the business, the owner has to answer the three following questions.
Firstly, the owner is planning to discontinue the stock of existing varieties of cheese because of the rising sales of domestic cheese. But taking this decision, he might make the business limited to only one portion of the customers. Demands of varieties in cheese had always been observed. Such as different pizzas, kinds of pastas and other dishes require different kinds of cheese. Only cheddar cheese isn’t used all the time. So confining the stock only to domestic cheddar cheese, the store might lose its other portion of customers who actually need varieties.
Secondly, the owner might be giving emphasis on the survey done by the World magazine. However the survey has been only done with its subscribers where the bigger portion of people might not be present. For example, restaurants have the demand of varieties of cheeses in their dishes. So it should be kept in mind too as a business grows by attracting different sorts of buyers. Thus the owner might have to think again before relying completely on a minimal survey.
Lastly, the author assumes that limiting inventory might reduce further cost which might improve profits. But inventory is an essential part of a business and discontinuing it might hamper its profit even more. Without performing proper inventory the owner may not have a clear idea of his stock and sold products and he might not be able to calculate revenues properly. For example, if 150 quantities are in stock and 50 quantities are sold in a day then they will have 100 quantities left and thus they might have to think about restocking items but without regular inventory item restocking might become inscrutable.
These mentioned facts make the whole argument highly suspect. If either of them has merit then the conclusion drawn by the owner might not hold water. So the owner might have to think again before executing these future plans for his business otherwise he might face unfortunate loss rather than profits.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 386 350
No. of Characters: 1886 1500
No. of Different Words: 202 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.432 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.886 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.385 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 136 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.381 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.208 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.762 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.323 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.323 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.117 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 4, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
In this memoranda, the owner of cheese stores a...
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Line 3, column 10, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... who actually need varieties. Secondly, the owner might be giving emphasis on th...
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Line 3, column 88, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
... the survey done by the World magazine. However the survey has been only done with its...
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Line 3, column 106, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...y the World magazine. However the survey has been only done with its subscribers ...
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Line 3, column 381, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...y attracting different sorts of buyers. Thus the owner might have to think again bef...
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Line 4, column 418, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...mple, if 150 quantities are in stock and 50 quantities are sold in a day then the...
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Line 5, column 63, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...make the whole argument highly suspect. If either of them has merit then the concl...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, then, thus, as to, for example, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1931.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 385.0 441.139720559 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01558441558 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4296068528 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47058457857 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522077922078 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 597.6 705.55239521 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.7601017755 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.9523809524 119.503703932 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3333333333 23.324526521 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.61904761905 5.70786347227 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.146314759824 0.218282227539 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0509519489959 0.0743258471296 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0521824461855 0.0701772020484 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0878321396235 0.128457276422 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0399512779719 0.0628817314937 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.3799401198 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.93 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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