pricing

Car Dealers Use Data to Optimize Buying and Selling in Today’s Volatile Market
Car Dealers Use Data to Optimize Buying and Selling in Today’s Volatile Market
February 28, 2022  |  Data

With the current shortage of used vehicles, businesses that buy and sell cars often must step outside their familiar territory and look at autos they don’t...

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Today in Retail: MAPCO Stores Going Checkout-Free With Grabango; Louis Vuitton Price Hikes Coming
Today in Retail: MAPCO Stores Going Checkout-Free With Grabango; Louis Vuitton Price Hikes Coming
February 15, 2022  |  Retail

Today in retail, restaurants and grocery stores use shrinkflation to get customers to pay the same amount for less of what they want, while Weber...

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Louis Vuitton Shows Pricing Power Amid Strong Demand for Luxury Goods
Louis Vuitton Shows Pricing Power Amid Strong Demand for Luxury Goods
February 15, 2022  |  Retail

Fashion brand Louis Vuitton is joining other high-fashion competitors in raising its prices Wednesday (Feb. 16) because of increased manufacturing and transportation costs, a spokesperson...

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Increased Buying Power Fuels Cost Hikes, Overloads Supply Chain
Increased Buying Power Fuels Cost Hikes, Overloads Supply Chain
December 21, 2021  |  Supply Chain

Despite the continued tolls of the 2-year-old pandemic, U.S. consumers’ increased buying power is straining supply chains worldwide and leading to the ongoing surge in...

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Wholesale Prices Make Fastest Jump on Record in November
Wholesale Prices Make Fastest Jump on Record in November
December 14, 2021  |  Economy

Wholesale prices increased 9.6% in November compared to the same time in 2020, marking their biggest year-to-year jump on record and presenting another sign that...

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Inflation: The Economic Variant That Kills Paycheck-to-Paycheck Consumer Confidence
Inflation: The Economic Variant That Kills Paycheck-to-Paycheck Consumer Confidence
December 08, 2021  |  Consumer Payments

Over the past year, as new strains of COVID have come and gone and rising vaccination rates have gradually restored much of what used to...

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What if Throwback 37-cent Whoppers Sparked a Rush to 1950s Pricing?
What if Throwback 37-cent Whoppers Sparked a Rush to 1950s Pricing?
December 03, 2021  |  Retail

It’s 1957. Russia just launched the Sputnik satellite, so everyone’s on edge. “Doctors” in TV commercials tell us cigarette smoking is okay. Elvis Presley’s “Too...

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Dollar Tree Breaks the Buck With Expanded $1.25 Pricing Policy 
Dollar Tree Breaks the Buck With Expanded $1.25 Pricing Policy 
November 23, 2021  |  Retail

It doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue: “the $1.25 store.” But such is fate in the trenches of discount retailing these days, where the worst...

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Farm Bureau: Inflation Gobbling Thanksgiving Budgets
Farm Bureau: Inflation Gobbling Thanksgiving Budgets
November 18, 2021  |  Retail

Inflation is taking a bite out of Thanksgiving dinner, with prices anticipated to be up about 14% over last year, according to data from the...

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