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Analyze Wal-Mart's strategic choices at the business, functional, corporate and global levels. Choose one strategic choice, and identify which level it addresses. Later on in the discussion, consider whether the strategic choices are in sync with their generic strategy as described by Porter (Porter's Value Chain).

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Analyze Wal-Mart's strategic choices at the business, functional, corporate and global levels.

Analyze Wal-Mart's strategic choices at the business, functional, corporate and global levels. Choose one strategic choice, and identify which level it addresses. Later on in the discussion, consider whether the strategic choices are in sync with their generic strategy as described by Porter (Porter's Value Chain).

The strategic choices at the business level are those that provide value to customers to gain competitive advantage. Wal-Mart has the choice of providing high quality and premium brand products and charging premium prices. It also has the strategic choice of providing premium quality products and delivering value to its customers. It also has the choice of delivering high quality products at low prices and delivering value to its customers. At business level Wal-Mart has been able to deliver high and moderate quality products at relatively lower prices.

The strategic choices at functional levels for Wal-Mart are the company can pay advance and finance the production ...

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