Dynamic Pricing: What should you do if your competitors change prices every...
Editor's Note: We recently received some great questions on our Competitive Pricing For Online Retail LinkedIn Group Site -- worth sharing with our wider audience. Questions such as: 1. What should you...
View ArticleWhat Can Retailers Do To Elude Extinction?
Here's what you didn't learn in school about the disruption affecting retail today. A recent article by consultant Chris H. Petersen, "Seven disruptive trends that will kill the 'dinosaurs of retail'"...
View ArticlePrice Strategies Retailers Use To Increase Sales & Move Inventory
Price is a critical competitive issue for retailers. (That is, of course, an understatement). A recent survey by Gartner Company subsidiary and point of sale research firm, Software Advice, examined...
View ArticlePredictive Analytics: A Retailer’s New Best Trend!
Retailers are finding that the path to optimal pricing and increased profit margins goes through predictive analytics. To properly capitalize on nascent scientific solutions, retailers have to:...
View ArticleUpstream Commerce Unveils New Advanced Trending Solution
What if retailers could combine market data with key business metrics to uncover underlying trends -- and then leverage these insights to optimize business results? What if retailers could get answers...
View ArticleJEGS High Performance Adds Data & Pricing Advantages Through Partnering With...
NEW YORK-- JEGS High Performance will use the competitive insights and capabilities provided by Upstream Commerce Retail Intelligence, the two companies announced today."We specifically chose to work...
View ArticleFewer Promotions In Store For Holidays 2015: Upstream Commerce
There are definite shifts in the way large retailers are discounting during the holiday season. By analyzing 300,000 products of seven large fashion retailers during the holiday seasons of 2013 and...
View ArticleHow Retailers Are Using Best Practices This Holiday Season To Maximize Data...
As Holiday Season 2015 arrives, retail challenges include stronger consumer economic confidence; customers shopping earlier; shoppers being "brand agnostic"; shoppers using mobile more extensively; and...
View Article10 Advantages of Private Label Branding
As we noted in our last post, Amazon is now offering fashion clothing and accessories under its own private labels. Why private label you may ask? First, "fashion sales are very profitable… clothes...
View ArticleRSR Study Sees Retailers’ Price Remorse & Promotions Overkill
For the past few years, RSR (Retail Systems Research) has noted and chided retailers for being slow to adapt to modern market and pricing demands, believing they could win the race by low, lower, and...
View ArticleHow Retailers Are Using Price Optimization Software To Make Profitable...
In today's transparent, always-on, highly competitive marketplace, savvy retailers are quickly adopting "the best technology so far" to compete strongly in the pricing arena. Price optimization...
View ArticleWhy Predictive Analytics Have Become Essential Technology For Retail Profit
Predictive analytics have quickly become an essential technology solution that retailers are eagerly adopting to compete and survive in today's marketplace. Predictive analytics solutions let retailers...
View ArticleDon’t Let Your Competitors Determine YOUR Profitability!
In today's disruptive "retail (r)evolution", retailers have to fight on many fronts simultaneously in search of The Holy Grail of success and profitability. Multiple challenges pulling on everyone...
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