Group Properties Group Description Instructions 1. Read the Costco case (at the end of Chapter 1) and some of the additional sources listed below. Please feel free to also search for and read other sources. 1. • Campos, “Why Costco is Beating Wal-Mart,” USA Today, 2 December 2013, https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2013/12/02/why-costco-is-beating-wal-mart/3691555/ • CNBC, “The Costco Craze: Inside the Warehouse Giant,” 9 April 2012, https://www.cnbc.com/the-costco-craze-inside-the-warehouse-giant/ • “Costco Doesn't Make Any Money Selling You Groceries — Here's How It Actually Rakes In Billions of Dollars Every Year,” Money, 7 October 2019, https://money.com/costco-doesnt-make-much-money-selling-you-groceries-heres-how-it-really-earns-billions-a-year/#:~:text=But%20Costco%20doesn't%20rake,of%20money%20in%20the%20process • N. Meyersohn, “Five things to know about Costco’s $4.99 rotisserie chickens,” CNN Business, 14 October 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/13/business/costco-rotisserie-chicken-facts/index.html • B. Stone, “Costco CEO Craig Jelinek Leads the Cheapest, Happiest Company in the World,” Bloomberg Business, 6 June 2013, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-06-06/costco-ceo-craig-jelinek-leads-the-cheapest-happiest-company-in-the-world 2. Make a “Strategy Evolution” post • Select one of the “Strategy Evolution” items (a – c) that has not yet been selected. To see which items have been selected, please read the discussion posts. • Address the item in a discussion post. • Use the following title for your post - Strategy Evolution - (letter you have selected) Strategy Evolution a. What part of Costco’s strategy was emergent? Briefly justify your answer. b. What part of Costco’s strategy was non-realized? Briefly justify your answer. c. What part of Costco’s strategy was deliberate? Briefly justify your answer. Attached Documents-Costco Case Textbook Screenshots