Cyber Monday/Black Friday

I feel like these days of shopping are overrated. Yes, the deals on Black Friday are great, but if people just wait a few more weeks the same deals are most of the time available. I do not think there is much of a reason to go shopping in the middle of the night besides the fact that it can be fun. However, I do agree that if someone is looking for one specific item for the holidays, this is a great time to target in on the best deals for this one thing. Most of the time a lot of the products are not available so people should shop quickly.

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Google
            Human resources throughout Google are giving people many opportunities. In the job analysis, openings include professions in software engineering, real estate & workplace services, developer relations, and technical infrastructure (etc...).
             I find it interesting that many of the jobs available are Software engineering positions. This is because there are so many different responsibilities within this one job such as developing effective test strategies and building next-generation web applications. 

5 Student Tips

While Viewing other students stock tips, I discovered that it would be best to invest in Google. This is because lately stocks have rose and I believe the price, although expensive, is worth investing into in order to make profit.

Stock Tip

1. Kellogg Company

2. $61.76

3. K

4. 52 week high: $69.50
    52 week low: $55.69

5. The Kellogg Company is involved with manufacturing and marketing convenience foods and cereals. This includes cookies, crackers, pastries, frozen snacks and frozen vegetables.

6. I would recommend this company because there is a steady increase in stock price in which I purchased 349 originally at a lower cost. This allowed me to earn more profit after the stock prices grew. I would suggest investing in a company similar to this.

7. Non-Cyclical Consumer Goods & Services

3 Companies

Honest Tea: They strive to create a healthier, more organic tea, but with that, an honest company with helpful employees. Honest Tea values diversity in their workplace and their relationship with customers.

Burt's Bees: This company claims to have a "triple bottom line," which is people, profit, planet. They quote, "you can't have one without the other two." Burt's Bees care about the environment and prove it through their natural and responsible packaging.

Whole Foods: Their business claims to sell the highest quality foods and "evaluate quality in terms of nutrition, freshness, appearance, and taste." Whole Foods works to put products on their shelves with the best possible prices and they even have a list of Quality Standards.

The Dilemma: Questions for Discussion

1. What are the roles of supply, demand, and competition in this scenario?
-An example of supply and demand in this scenario is that local customers cannot go to another pharmacy, because the nearest one is 40 miles away. They demand the goods from either of these two pharmacies.
-The competition part of this is that the owner of the other pharmacy wants to buy "my" pharmacy and will raise the profits of it by 10 percent allowing us to earn much more money.


2. What are the underlying ethical issues?
- We would be forcing customers to go to this one expensive pharmacy, because they have nowhere else to go.


3. What would you do if you were actually faced with this issue?
- I would combine businesses, but not raise the prices, because my previous customers would have to shop at the new pharmacy now so I would still be making the same profit as before, if not more.