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Best Practices for Selling on Amazon You May Be Missing

Retail TouchPoints

Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Pricing (MSRP) and Minimum Advertised Pricing (MAP) aren’t enforced by Amazon. It’s up to the brand or its agency to manage what your pricing policies will be and how you prevent being undercut by resellers on Amazon. Neatness counts at Amazon. Keep things tidy.

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Analysis: The many faces of social commerce in China

Inside Retail

The KAWS x Uniqlo collection when released usually sells out on the same day with product showing up on Taobao hours later selling sometimes 100x its retail price earlier that morning. With borders shut daigous and P2P accounts on Taobao have anchored into selling us everything from apparel to infant milk formula.

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What is a Unilateral Pricing Policy?

Wiser

UPPs give manufacturers a means of controlling the retail price of their products without a violation of antitrust law for possible anti-competitive behavior. Let’s look at how UPPs came about, how online retail impacted the need for UPPs, and the differences between this policy and a minimum advertised price policy.

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Exclusive Q&A: EY Defines 5 Post-Pandemic Consumer Segments

Retail TouchPoints

Two years later, as consumers adapted to shutdowns designed to stem the spread of COVID-19, EY recognized that the speed of consumer transformation had greatly accelerated and that new research was needed, explained Jeff Orschell, EY’s Americas Retail Leader and Global Account Leader, in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Five Steps to Achieving a Perfect Retail Plan

Retail Smart Guys

On top of that, retail pricing must be realistic, catering to people with diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. Also, marketing and advertising have to be solid to ensure the promotion of your products. A robust retail plan is not what it all takes. Performance Analysis.

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Guide to Omnichannel Pricing

Wiser

In the current retail landscape you have to admit that omnichannel retailers typically have a leg-up, compared to their single channel competitors. But one aspect of this unified retail experience that gets tricky is omnichannel pricing. A uniform pricing strategy nearly goes out the door when it comes to distributors.

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Category Managers. The kind of people the world needs more of.

Shopper Intelligence

Buyer vs National Account Manager. The Buyer deeply involved in the minutiae of operating a category for a retailer: pricing, stock, availability, promotions (see how we track these metrics ), a million daily hassles plus the pressure of hitting profit targets, and performance reviewed by the week, day or even hour.