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As the Holidays Approach, it’s Time to Rethink Retail Pricing Methodology…and AI Can Help

Retail TouchPoints

In this kind of shopping environment, how should retailers align their promotions and markdowns for the greatest impact? Ending the Tradition of Blanket Markdowns Enter this year’s holiday shopper. Retailers can now gauge how different items sell at different speeds at different times, to different customers.

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AI-Powered Pricing and Promotions are Redefining the 2020 Retail Holiday Season

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers and their shoppers are whiplashed accordingly. This poses unprecedented uncertainties for retail pricing and merchandising teams for the holidays in 2020. Here are some of the issues facing retailers — and ways that they can harness AI-powered pricing and promotions to cope with them productively.

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Mastering Promotional Pricing: Proactive Holiday Strategies to Protect Your Profits

Retail TouchPoints

Navigating holiday retail pricing strategies during times of economic uncertainty requires a delicate balance between reacting to market conditions and maintaining profitability. Fine-Tune Competitive and Promotion Strategies Retailers need to first identify key categories or regions that drive traffic, build baskets and boost profits.

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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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Supercharge Your Holiday Pricing with AI-powered Data Science

Retail TouchPoints

AI-Based Pricing Brings Surgical Focus to Help Retailers Successfully Navigate Unprecedented Markets. Increasingly, innovative retailers worldwide are embracing advanced price and promotion intelligence in order to craft prices and offers that reflect real-time demand signals, competitor activities and shopper price sensitivities.

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Recharge Your Digital Pricing Strategies with Data Science

Retail Focus

It’s not surprising, then, that shopper responsiveness to digital promotional offers has increased, with 55% saying they are extremely or very likely to respond to a smartphone or mobile app offer v. Let’s look at three ways that data science can help retailers thrive in a highly competitive multi-channel environment.

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AI-Powered Pricing and Promotions are Redefining the 2020 Retail Holiday Season

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers and their shoppers are whiplashed accordingly. This poses unprecedented uncertainties for retail pricing and merchandising teams for the holidays in 2020. Here are some of the issues facing retailers — and ways that they can harness AI-powered pricing and promotions to cope with them productively.