{"id":2140,"date":"2018-03-27T23:18:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T23:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=2140"},"modified":"2024-04-25T03:03:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T03:03:57","slug":"why-it-matters-retail-pricing-and-sales-strategies-2","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/chapter\/why-it-matters-retail-pricing-and-sales-strategies-2\/","title":{"raw":"Why It Matters: Retail Pricing and Sales Strategies","rendered":"Why It Matters: Retail Pricing and Sales Strategies"},"content":{"raw":"The term \u201cpricing\u201d is one of the four \u201cP\u2019s\u201d we learn in classic product marketing. In the marketing world, product, promotion, placement, and pricing are the four categories that must be addressed and executed for a successful product lifecycle.\r\n\r\nAlthough there is obvious carryover from classic marketing to retail marketing, pricing takes on a different level of importance for the retailer. This may be why there seem to be as many retail pricing strategies as there are retailers.<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-5914 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2986\/2018\/03\/05162123\/heather-ford-rxcEgbjFCjc-unsplash-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"retail display of clothes and food\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>\r\n\r\nLet\u2019s imagine that you are considering jumping into the retail industry by opening a candy store. You would have a myriad of things to address in your business plan. Who are your competitors? How much consumer revenue is currently being devoted to candy sales in the existing market? What are the demographics of the customer base? How much is the average purchase by the customer base? Where are the potential locations for your shop?\r\n\r\nThis list of questions would go on for many pages. Where would the\u00a0 pricing of your goods rank as a priority? That is one of the important points of this module. Pricing for the retailer is a key value lever, and an important core competency,\u00a0 but it does not exist in a vacuum and in fact is dependent on a variety of other factors.\r\n\r\nIn this module we will explore how retail pricing strategy is developed as part of \u00a0overall business objectives. We will discuss many variables that affect retail pricing strategy such as product mix, competition, elasticity, cost factors, and supporting growth and success in the market.","rendered":"<p>The term \u201cpricing\u201d is one of the four \u201cP\u2019s\u201d we learn in classic product marketing. In the marketing world, product, promotion, placement, and pricing are the four categories that must be addressed and executed for a successful product lifecycle.<\/p>\n<p>Although there is obvious carryover from classic marketing to retail marketing, pricing takes on a different level of importance for the retailer. This may be why there seem to be as many retail pricing strategies as there are retailers.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5914 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2986\/2018\/03\/05162123\/heather-ford-rxcEgbjFCjc-unsplash-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"retail display of clothes and food\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s imagine that you are considering jumping into the retail industry by opening a candy store. You would have a myriad of things to address in your business plan. Who are your competitors? How much consumer revenue is currently being devoted to candy sales in the existing market? What are the demographics of the customer base? How much is the average purchase by the customer base? Where are the potential locations for your shop?<\/p>\n<p>This list of questions would go on for many pages. Where would the\u00a0 pricing of your goods rank as a priority? That is one of the important points of this module. Pricing for the retailer is a key value lever, and an important core competency,\u00a0 but it does not exist in a vacuum and in fact is dependent on a variety of other factors.<\/p>\n<p>In this module we will explore how retail pricing strategy is developed as part of \u00a0overall business objectives. We will discuss many variables that affect retail pricing strategy such as product mix, competition, elasticity, cost factors, and supporting growth and success in the market.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-2140\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Why It Matters: Retail Pricing and Sales Strategies. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Bob Danielson. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>organic egg bowl beside berry. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Heather Ford . <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Unsplash. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/rxcEgbjFCjc\">https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/rxcEgbjFCjc<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":62559,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Why It Matters: Retail Pricing and Sales Strategies\",\"author\":\"Bob Danielson\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"organic egg bowl beside berry\",\"author\":\"Heather Ford \",\"organization\":\"Unsplash\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/rxcEgbjFCjc\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"5afd52fd-b946-4c4d-a042-f63fdcc618e6","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2140","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":2139,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62559"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5916,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2140\/revisions\/5916"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/2139"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2140\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}