Exam 7: Amazoncom: an Empire Stretching From Cardboard Box to Kindle to Cloud

A) Plant machinery
B) Retail locations
C) Goodwill
D) Cash
E) Office furniture

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A) customer focus.
B) cost cutting.
C) the focus on making immediate supplier payments.
D) internal leadership.
E) technology advancements.

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A) customer focus.
B) cost cutting.
C) the focus on making immediate supplier payments.
D) internal leadership.
E) technology advancements.

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A) Allows the firm to cut out some of the costs that would otherwise go to a branded supplier.
B) Gives Amazon even more negotiating leverage with suppliers.
C) Allows Amazon products revealed on site and in the firm's product search results to eliminate costly advertising and other awareness-building spending that many rival products invest in.
D) Reduces reliance on well-known suppliers that otherwise sell commodity products.
E) All of the above

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A) He focused more on Amazon's quarterly results.
B) He postponed profit harvesting.
C) He reduced warehousing capacity.
D) He consciously ignored cloud computing platforms.
E) He built e-commerce operations only for Amazon's customers in the United States.

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A) A department store gets a cut on the selling price of a product, which is set by the product's manufacturer.
B) A retail store purchases merchandise from a manufacturer and sells the merchandise at whatever prices it wishes to charge.
C) The government of a country sets the minimum price for certain agricultural products to cover the costs incurred by the farmers.
D) A manufacturer and a retailer work in a collaborative manner to decide the price of the final product.
E) The government of a country sets the maximum price for a certain product that retailers cannot exceed.

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A) Autonomous robots are in charge of building an order from a warehouse's inventory without any human intervention.
B) Amazon's items that produce the most sales volume are stocked on shelves, alphabetically, to speed selection and packing.
C) Amazon's systems stamp names and addresses on boxes so they can be filled by pickers directly from shelves.
D) When stacking shelves in its warehouses, Amazon ensures that no two similar products sit next to each other.
E) Amazon's items that are heavily discounted and about to be written off as 'unsellable inventory' are dropped in an area called 'mass land' in one last-ditch effort to move under-performing warehouse stock.

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A) An individual, who owns a Kindle, cannot purchase books provided by non-Amazon publishers.
B) The Kindle is only about digitally reading books and not about linking customers to other physical products offered by Amazon.
C) By the holiday season of the product's second year, the number of Kindles sold began to decline steadily.
D) Amazon doesn't look to make money directly from Kindle hardware sales.
E) Amazon today sells fewer electronic books overall than their print counterparts.

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A) the firm was losing money and competing against established, well known, offline brands who were going online.
B) Amazon was too short-term focused.
C) the firm was based in Seattle, rather than Silicon Valley.
D) Amazon sales were not increasing.
E) all of the above.

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