Given the personalization trend, it is not surprising that customers are comfortable getting involved with product personalization. Purchasing a tailored made product, receiving it quickly, cheaply, and to the location of their choice with full visibility into the sustainability and compliance practices of each participant in the value chain is the epitome of a personalized […]
There’s more evidence that Walmart continues to fight hard on the pricing front. The retailer was recently cheaper, on average, than fellow Barron’s Next 50 stock Amazon.com (AMZN) in 8 of 10 categories studied by Guggenheim Securities, according to a Tuesday note. (Guggenheim checked prices on 10 baskets of 10 items.) In some cases, Walmart […]
Walmart is known for its commitment to low prices, but the company is discovering that shipping the lowest-priced products is making it tough to turn a profit with e-commerce. So, the chain has begun encouraging consumer package goods vendors to provide higher-priced items to sell on Walmart.com. Earlier in February, Walmart eCommerce CEO Marc Lore […]
With the objective of capitalizing on the booming online shopping, Rakuten and Seiyu GK, a subsidiary of Walmart have reached a new agreement to launch “Rakuten Seiyu Netsuper”, a new online grocery delivery service in Japan. The service is likely to be launched in the latter half of 2018. Through the partnership both the companies […]
Harsh reality: Sometimes you have no choice. Economic conditions, market saturation, inventory issues or some other element of your business may force you to modify your prices, either temporarily or in rare cases, permanently. There is no such thing as forever when it comes to business strategy. We must all evolve or die, and pricing […]
Wal-Mart Stores Inc is within striking distance of matching Amazon.com Inc’s online prices for the first time, a key milestone in its effort to regain the “low price leader” title. Wal-Mart has aggressively invested in making its prices more competitive against brick-and-mortar rivals since the start of the year. Now, the shrinking gap is also […]
Amazon is losing its edge in the low-price wars online. A new price study spanning 700 days found that Walmart’s prices online are now just 0.3% more expensive than Amazon’s on average, Reuters reports. That’s down from a 3% premium last year. In some categories, Walmart’s prices were significantly lower than Amazon’s, the study by […]
“Providing a cheaper price or a discount for picking up an online order in-store makes sense — after all, it is cheaper for Walmart to fulfill in this way and it gets the potential benefit of incremental sales when the customer collects,” said Neil Saunders, Managing Director at GlobalData Retail, in a RetailWire discussion. “However, […]
Because the pricing lever is so easy to pull and generates quick results for investors, retailers are often tempted to make quick, gut decisions to generate foot traffic with low prices. But this addiction is unstainable and not an isolated incident. Major companies are buckling down for bigger investments on price in the absence of […]
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Last month, Walmart gathered some of America’s biggest household brands near its Arkansas headquarters for a tough talk. For years, Walmart had dominated the retail landscape on the back of its “Everyday Low Price” guarantee. But now, Walmart was too often getting beaten on price. So company executives were there, in part, to reset expectations […]
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Upcoming and On-Demand Pricing Events > January 2019
Take your pricing game to the next level – check out these upcoming in-person as well as live/on-demand webcast pricing events. Be sure to check the Pricing Events Calendar regularly as it offers a list of upcoming pricing focused conferences, webcasts, in-person and online training, and other professional development/networking events. Upcoming Events Webinar: Pricing in New Product […]
Webinar (On-Demand): How to Increase Prices Using Willingness to Pay Insights | PriceBeam
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 […]
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