How would you respond to the two discussion posts made by Elmer and Aimee? What do you agree or disagree with about their posts? what opinions and information would you like to add in your response about their posts? Write a response for each post. Both responses should be 200 words. Your response should start off with hello (person's Name)

Elmer

Best Buy Co. Inc Annual Report

To stay ahead, a two-year plan is in place on the GAAP operating income targets. Despite the previous challenges in 2012, shareholders were impacted in a positive way as a result of multiple front moving forward positively. Customer experience were evaluated for customer for improvement of customer service. The customers who shopped online were able to take advantage of the price match policy caused in increase in the Net Promoter Score by at least 1,500 points and to date, that score has doubled.

Today the revenue is 17% and the sales are 6.5 billion thanks to online sales. To broaden the horizons and try something new, there are advisors were introduced. These are in home advisors for the convenience of the customers where customers can receive consultation on technology. This was very successful that an additional 500 advisors were added and over 100,000 customers received this service in their homes.

The tech 24-hour support brought in more members which brought in over a million more members. To add to the strategy by tapping into the health services. If the needs of the people are met, the results are a healthy relationship. The focus is the senior citizens and helping them continue to live in their homes if they can.

The employees have been invested in which is why they are enthused to exercise their talents. Employees receive the top of the line training. The savings for last year were repurposed. As the business grows there will be other vendors to further enhance the business.

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Aimee

Walmarts 2019 Annual Report

Walmart is a retail and wholesale business. Walmart supplies assortment of merchandise at low prices. The category that Walmart falls under would be merchandising. What does it mean by merchandising? Merchandising is the marketing and promotion of a product, good, or service within a distribution chain. In this Consolidated Statements of Income, it shows the last three years of Walmart's revenues and what the common share is worth. The net sales have been increasing every year for the past three years.In 2018 the net sales increased 14,444 and in 2019 the net sales increased 14,568. So, in the past three years Walmart net sales increased 29, 012.Memberships increased only by 26 in 2018 and were down 506 in 2019.

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Fiscal Years Ended January 31, 2018 2017 2019 510,329 $ 4,076 514,405 495,761 $ 4,582 500,343 481,317 4,556 485,873 385,301 107,147 21,957 373,396 106,510 20,437 361,256 101,853 22,764 (Amounts in millions, except per share data) Revenues: Net sales Membership and other income Total revenues Costs and expenses: Cost of sales Operating, selling, general and administrative expenses Operating income Interest: Debt Capital lease and financing obligations Interest income Interest, net Loss on extinguishment of debt Other (gains) and losses Income before income taxes Provision for income taxes Consolidated net income Consolidated net income attributable to noncontrolling interest Consolidated net income attributable to Walmart 1,975 371 (217) 2,129 1,978 352 (152) 2,178 3,136 2,044 323 (100) 2,267 8,368 11,460 4,281 7,179 (509) 6,670 $ 15,123 4,600 10,523 (661) 9.862 $ 20,497 6,204 14,293 (650) 13.643 Net income per common share: Basic net income per common share attributable to Walmart Diluted net income per common share attributable to Walmart $ 2.28 $ 2.26 3.29 3.28 4.40 4.38 Weighted-average common shares outstanding: Basic Diluted 2,929 2,945 2,995 3,010 3,101 3,112 Dividends declared per common share 2.08 $ 2.04 $ 2.00