Analysis: 1. The transformation of Walmart from 2017 to 2018, and the financial risks in the...

Analysis: 1. The transformation of Walmart from 2017 to 2018, and the financial risks in the future year. 2. How to deal with the problem that Walmart's transformation of e-commerce could not be noticed by all customers.

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Actually Walmart has aquired one of the most trending E-commerce business organisation Flipkart.

Walmart is more popular all over the world than the Flipkart.

The risks are as follows:

1)The Chance of being not noticed by the customers that its branding name is Walmart

2)They have to advertise in such a way that it is marketed by Walmart.

3) people also get used to it when it is advertised by walmart.

4)Moreover advertising in the social Networking sites helps a lot in bringing awareness among the people

5)They can also get awareness by advertising the same in the way of press meets and So on.....

Financial Risks are as follows;

In the future years of its investment in Flipkart it maynot get profits due to other trending websites like Amazon

And Moreover due to extravagant discounts given by the e-commerce websites especially during the festival seasons(which are more in a country like India) it may get into the losses which as a whole may loose its reputation

On a final note it will a challenging game to the walmart by investing the amount in E-Commerce Business Organisations

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