Hope Medicals owner, Shiva Aruguman, was considering entering the online pharmacy market. Hope Medicals was a local pharmacy in Madurai, India’s Tamil Nadu state, and Aruguman was at a strategic crossroads—he had to decide whether to expand into the online pharmacy market. With the challenges (financial and non-financial) of integrating the “brick” and “click” modes of his pharmacy business, Aruguman had to conduct an analysis based on capital budgeting .....more