The following appeared in a memorandum from the owner of Movies Galore, a chain of video rental stores.
“In order to reverse the recent decline in our profits, we must reduce operating expenses at movies Galore’s ten video rental stores. Since we are famous for our special bargains, raising our rental prices is not a viable way to improve profits. Last month our store in downtown Marston significantly decreased its operating expenses by closing at 6:00 P.M. rather than 9:00 P.M. and by reducing its stock by eliminating all movies released more than five years ago. Therefore, in order to increase profits without jeopardizing our reputation for offering great movies at low prices, we recommend implementing similar changes in our other nine movies Galore stores.”
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.
The number of sales or video rentals are effected by a lot of factors considering the location of the the Movies galore chain is quite discreet. The owner of the store has recommended the change based on the operating system implemented by one of the other stores which worked out well. The assumptions here taken are that all the other stores share the same attributes which affect the sales. It can be the location, the age of the population in the vicinity or even the leisure hours of individuals etc.
In order to create the desired effect and achieve the predicted result, asking the following questions will form a concrete base for success of the strategy.
Firstly, the owner needs to find out the number of people who are visiting the store at what time, based on that can he/she decide if the working hours can be cut down or shifted because that factor will affect the overall sales of the rental store as well as keep its reputation intact. If, the peak hours for the maximum number of people visiting the store is after 6:00pm then implementing the given rules might lead to decline in the number of sales.
Secondly, the age of the overall population will describe the kind of movie stock which should be discarded and which should be given on rent. If the major population of the area is above 50 years of age and prefers old movies then eliminating the portion of stocks released more than five years ago can affect the sales immensely in a negative way. In a way, the movies which are more in demand and rented frequently should be given front shelves rather than the ones which are still covered with dust.
Thirdly, the investment in the labour for providing operational services needs to be analyzed. If the payment of the staff working at the rental store differs by a huge amount for some specific duration of the day then that needs to be cut down. It is not necessary that the compensation provided to the staff grows exponentially after 6:00pm as was the case in one of the Movies Galore rental store.
The quality of stock, the people and the location of a store provides a lot of weight to the quality of the store and bolsters its financial bank balance. These attributes are highly asymmetrical and demand a high weightage for interpreting the change in sales of a rental store.
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'first', 'firstly', 'if', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'third', 'thirdly', 'well', 'kind of', 'as well as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.255172413793 0.25644967241 100% => OK
Verbs: 0.151724137931 0.15541462614 98% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0620689655172 0.0836205057962 74% => OK
Adverbs: 0.048275862069 0.0520304965353 93% => OK
Pronouns: 0.00919540229885 0.0272364105082 34% => OK
Prepositions: 0.142528735632 0.125424944231 114% => OK
Participles: 0.0574712643678 0.0416121511921 138% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.439609271 2.79052419416 87% => OK
Infinitives: 0.016091954023 0.026700313972 60% => OK
Particles: 0.00919540229885 0.001811407834 508% => OK
Determiners: 0.165517241379 0.113004496875 146% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0252873563218 0.0255425247493 99% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0183908045977 0.0127820249294 144% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2313.0 2731.13054187 85% => OK
No of words: 411.0 446.07635468 92% => OK
Chars per words: 5.62773722628 6.12365571057 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.57801047555 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.313868613139 0.378187486979 83% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.189781021898 0.287650121315 66% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.131386861314 0.208842608468 63% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0851581508516 0.135150697306 63% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.439609271 2.79052419416 87% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 207.018472906 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.476885644769 0.469332199767 102% => OK
Word variations: 51.8701055431 52.1807786196 99% => OK
How many sentences: 15.0 20.039408867 75% => OK
Sentence length: 27.4 23.2022227129 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.3799754644 57.7814097925 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 154.2 141.986410481 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.4 23.2022227129 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.933333333333 0.724660767414 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.14285714286 117% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 3.58251231527 195% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 46.3781021898 51.9672348444 89% => OK
Elegance: 2.17582417582 1.8405768891 118% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.418821504709 0.441005458295 95% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.186689587088 0.135418324435 138% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0537429790771 0.0829849096947 65% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.774547747449 0.58762219726 132% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.101126787189 0.147661913831 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.233295601103 0.193483328276 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0477733552996 0.0970749176394 49% => The sentences are too close to each other.
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.442727552185 0.42659136922 104% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0299378454891 0.0774707102158 39% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.296161542255 0.312017818177 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0458235204541 0.0698173142475 66% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.33743842365 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.87684729064 58% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.82512315271 83% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 6.46551724138 93% => OK
Negative topic words: 0.0 5.36822660099 0% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 9.0 14.657635468 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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