Restaurants are joining hotels, airlines, ride services, and ski areas in the practice of adjusting their prices (paywall) to reflect consumer demand. This type of strategy has been most notable in the form of surge pricing for ride services like Uber and Lyft, but the restaurant version is actually something like the inverse. Instead of prices […]
Anchor Pricing is the concept of making a product that was first offered seem cheaper when it put alongside another product. An example of this would be initially offering a customer a product that costs 300 GBP but then showing and comparing a more expensive alternative, say 450 GBP to that customer. That first product […]
Both the Uber and Lyft ride-sharing services experienced surge-pricing on Monday, which occurs when high demand causes prices to spike. But Wednesday, many offices will be shuttered and schools will be closed. It remains to be seen whether the streets will be deserted, or whether there will be people hailing rides because they don’t want […]
The 29th of March, 2019, the day the United Kingdom officially leaves the European Union, is fast approaching. It is important for businesses to know the impacts Brexit will have on pricing for their products and how they can prepare for post-Brexit. Food prices are expected to go up after Brexit and some have even […]
When are people willing to pay a super-high price premium for something? They do, for example, for vacation properties in just the right places, like Southampton, Carmel, or Aspen; for condos in famous buildings, like 432 Park Avenue or The Millennium Tower (even if the latter might be sinking into oblivion); for signature luxury fashion […]
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It’s the go-to taxi service for many people around the world, but Uber prices are set to increase in London this week. Uber has announced that it is adding 15p/mile onto every trip taken through the app in London. This new fee is part of the Mayor’s Clean Air Plan, and will be added from […]
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This PriceBeam Webinar covers how willingness to pay research can be used to successfully manage and implement price increases. Successful price increases can deliver tremendous profits but many fail to be properly implemented whereas others anger customers unnecessarily. In this webinar we show how insights from market research into customers’ willingness to pay can increase […]
The Uber era has marked several shifts in culture, from the proliferation of AUX cord literacy to a decreased willingness to ride public transit at 3 a.m. even when it’s quicker. The San Francisco start-up’s business model, in particular, has spread far beyond the realm of the service economy and transportation. Take surge pricing. Restaurants have begun experimenting […]
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Pricer’s Points: Why Does Bottled Water Cost Significantly More than Tap Water? | Elena Galli
More or less one month ago I was at the airport, heading back to Barcelona after having spent some days in my hometown, Ferrara, a little city in Northern Italy. I was very thirsty so I headed to the first bar I saw and ended up spending an excruciatingly expensive price for my half a […]
This Week in Pricing > 2/16/19
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Remember MoviePass? It was just delisted | The Chestnut Post
The movie subscription service on Thursday announced a new, complicated pricing structure that is dependent on geography and the kind of movies customers want to watch. Starting in January, MoviePass will offer three plans that members can choose from. The first, called “Select,” starts at $10 a month and will allow subscribers to see three […]
Woman: Retailer Should Honor Penny Label on Display | NBC 6 South Florida
It was a deal so good, Robin Puppo could not believe her eyes. “I’m like, oh my God, what is this?” she said. “It’s marked as a penny.” The vacuum Robin wanted was on display at the Walmart near Sawgrass Mills Mall. She says the label under it read one cent. “It’s a $279 machine,” […]
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