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The Data Dilemma with Retail Pricing and How to Untangle it

Retail TouchPoints

Many of your retail peers found themselves with the dilemma of missing data — from the lack of customer data, transaction history for certain items or timeframes or sales broken out by sales type (regular/base, promotion and markdown). This is your starting point and your job is to build up and improve it.

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2023: Ring in Retail Profits by Stopping Automated Threats

Retail TouchPoints

Specifically, bot operators continue to siphon retailer profits with increasingly sophisticated automated threats — including account takeover, web and API scraping and more. According to the 2022 State of Bot Mitigation Report , nearly 70% of companies using anti-bot solutions lost revenue to bot-driven account fraud.

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Digital Shelf Analytics: 9 Real-World Use Cases for Pricing Data

Wiser

One of its standout features is its capacity to provide competitive pricing and promotions intelligence. Competitive pricing is a crucial element for anyone in retail. With DSI, brands gain near real-time visibility into competitor pricing strategies. Swift action prevented further revenue loss.

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The Dropship Dilemma: Why and How Retailers Need to Evolve Dropship Strategies

Retail TouchPoints

There are nuances based on type of retailer, existing ecommerce strategy and whether the products are first-party only or also include third-party fulfillment. One customer we worked with had been managing over 100 third-party fulfillment relationships following a traditional dropship approach.

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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. Make it a point to manage your own catalog of products.

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

Shopper Intelligence

Category Managers. Sometimes being in Category Management might feel like being a United Nations peacekeeper, a global summit negotiator, or like you dropped into an episode of Game of Thrones. (We We have a whole booklet of cartoons about life as a Category Manager! (We Retailer vs Supplier. Promotions are good.

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What is Price Management and Optimization?

Retalon

Price optimization and price management are terms that often are used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing. When used properly, both price management and price optimization can substantially affect a retailer’s profitability. What is price optimization?