Pricing

With Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday falling on the early side this year, there's a little longer shopping season — but an overwhelming array of choices. More time means more opportunities to compare assortment, prices and offers, which means loyalty may go out the window.  How can retailers craft engaging, relevant pricing and promotions…

Tis the season. Bah humbug … After FedEx and the USPS delivered their version of coal in our stocking, UPS doubled down with its just released 2019 general rate increase (GRI). The GRI goes into effect on Dec. 26, 2018, leaving customers with less than three weeks notice during the busiest retail season to analyze,…

Wiser surveyed Black Friday shoppers to find out which stores had the best deals, the hottest products, and how much shoppers spent.

Attendees will leave this webinar with a better understanding of how global e-commerce opportunity will impact future success.

First Insight surveyed consumers and senior retail executives on consumer shopping habits, purchase behavior and influences driving decisions. The surveys revealed that while quality of products is most important to consumers, pricing plays a significantly more important role in how consumers make purchase decisions than senior retail executives realize.

Continuing our coverage of Total Retail's recently released Top 100 Fastest-Growing Retailers report, which ranks publicly traded retailers on year-over-year net sales growth, we will be highlighting select companies on this year's list. We want to provide you with some reasons why these retailers were able to grow sales (and in many cases net earnings) in…

Fourth-quarter financials in 2017 demonstrate once again that retailers walk a tightrope when it comes to driving sales and maintaining gross margins. In spite of healthy sales increases in the fourth quarter, many retail executives felt the impact of a dynamic business environment that challenged retail companies on numerous fronts: new technology, evolving consumer preferences,…

The holiday shopping season has become increasingly condensed into Thanksgiving weekend. During this span of five days (Turkey Day through Cyber Monday), 79 percent of consumers will do “most of” their holiday shopping. That’s according to a survey of 1,500 U.S. adults conducted in September by BlackFriday.com. Those shoppers will be spending an average of $335…

In a clip from Total Retail Tech, Steve Dennis discusses why retailers without a luxury focus or value-oriented strategy are failing.

To effectively transform a retail enterprise from data rich to data-led, retailers must make their data actionable. They must turn a data swamp into a smoothly running data stream. This requires clear goal setting, data normalization and seamless bidirectional communications between core systems across the enterprise. Once these basic requirements are met, retailers can effectively…