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The Data Dilemma with Retail Pricing and How to Untangle it

Retail TouchPoints

You will be pleased to find new pricing strategies and the different ways that data can be used to give you a competitive edge. He formerly led pricing strategy at Kirkland’s, Academy Sports + Outdoors and Safeway, where he was hands-on with AI-based analytical tools, retail strategy and change management.

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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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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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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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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?

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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. The supermarket shelf.

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The Step-Up in Ecommerce Sneaker Fraud

Retail TouchPoints

With top companies releasing limited “drops” of desired products, limited-edition sneakers can sell for hundreds or thousands of dollars over their original retail price. They account for about one-third of legitimate transactions and around half of fraudulent transactions.

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