Profit Margins for Zara, Gap, and H&M

Individual Case Analysis: Zara: An Integrated Store and Online Model (A) -2020.
This case study is in the course module.
Grade: This assignment is 30% of your final grade.
Assignment: To prepare for the business challenge and team deliverables you will will complete an individual analysis of a case study focused on the retail industry. There are important strategies and applicable concepts in this case study that will help you and your teammates navigate through the business challenge.
Pages: 8 pages max, 12-point Times New Roman font - single-spaced. The page count excludes the cover page, reference page, and appendix.
Case Study Prep: In preparation for this assignment, read the questions below and then skim the case once to get an overview. Afterward, re-read the case more carefully for details so that you can answer the questions completely in detail.
The purpose of the case is to understand the key issues while eliminating any extraneous details. Like real business situations, the cases give you more information than you need. You need to understand what information is relevant for a given context.
Make sure you are not using any outside material to help you with this case. Use only the facts given in this case and the additionally reading Blurring the Lines between Physical and Digital Spaces: Business Model Innovation in Retailing by Milan Jocevski. Do not surf the web for outside answers, look at other sources, or share your work/collaborate with other students in the course. This is an independent assignment and as the honor code applies suspected similarity in work will be referred to the Academic Integrity Committee (AIC).
Failure to adhere to APA guidelines will result in an automatic 10-points deduction.
Some of these questions, like in real business situations do not have clear answers but require you to develop a position and argument that can be defended to defend your position. However, there are answers that are better reasoned than other answers.
Make sure that you can FACTUALLY defend your answers using facts from the case.
In marketing, we use quantitative proof if available in the case to make a case. Therefore, cite facts from the case to draw conclusions and recommendations. This means you're required to use APA in-text citation and referencing in your submission. Incorrect APA use or a Turn It In similarity score of 15% or higher will be flagged and reviewed for plagiarism by the Academic Integrity Committee (AIC).
Case Questions:
1)Compare the profit margins for Zara, Gap, and H&M. What can explain some of the differences?
2)Should Zara continue to aggregate smaller stores in an urban area into one flagship store (for example, in Bilbao, replacing four stores with one flagship store)? Why or why not?
3)Under what conditions should Zara fill online orders from stores rather than from online distribution centers (DCs)? That is, what criteria would you use to decide whether you fill an order from an online DC or from a store?
4)Should Zara replicate the integrated store and online DC model in other markets? Why or why not?
5)Would you advise Zara’s competitors to invest in similar RFID technology?
6)THIS QUESTION IS FOR MIM-DD STUDENTS ONLY:
In Change Management, Professor Anthony taught the strategy Force Field Analysis (FFA). Please answer question 2 and then apply (FFA).
Please use the link provided to make a FFA visual. You can choose any of the models provided. Once complete please PDF the file. You will add this as an appendix to your paper. This visual should be aligned with your thoughts in the above question: https://online(dot)visual-paradigm(dot)com/diagrams/features/force-field-analysis-template/ Links to an external site.