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How Retailers Can Strengthen Sustainability With Data-Driven Pricing Strategies

Retail TouchPoints

These insights are a powerful way to gauge consumer demand for sustainable products with current and past sales data, identify the most profitable promotional strategies, and minimize markdowns and waste from the start. Businesses can then better predict and measure markdown results while dynamically updating markdown plans.

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Good, better, best: How Myer is winning during the ‘shift to thrift’

Inside Retail

From essentials – at the supermarket and the petrol pump, in the mortgage and in the power bills – to the not-so-essentials, such as the local café, the fashion boutique, the travel agent and the new car dealer. Tread carefully because markdowns will bite hard if you misjudge stock weights.

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How Woolies is using 2D barcodes to increase sales and transparency

Inside Retail

At Woolworths, we plan to build on the potential of these barcodes to offer customers valuable information on provenance, quality and sustainability. Major US supermarket Walmart also did a pilot program using 2D barcodes from GS1 recently. Their journey began in 2017 with just loose produce. “At

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The Future of Retail – Embracing Digital Pricing

Retail Design Solutions

As the traditional yellow discount stickers may soon become a thing of the past, supermarkets are turning to digital price tags and high-tech stickers to provide real-time pricing updates. Currently, UK supermarkets and food retailers are responsible for approximately 300,000 tonnes of wasted food each year.

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7 Price Planning Tips to Maximize Retail Profits (2020)

Retalon

Price planning is one of the most difficult (and often misunderstood) elements of retailing strategies. But emulating successful retailers in price planning isn’t enough. Standard price planning strategies (competition pricing, cost-plus, high-low, EDLP, etc.) What does this mean for price planning?