Retailer Improves Margins 15% with AI Pricing Intelligence
The Full Story
This specialty retailer competed in a category with razor-thin margins and aggressive competitors. Their pricing process was manual: check competitor sites quarterly, update spreadsheets, hope for the best. By the time they spotted a pricing problem, they'd already lost sales.
We deployed automated monitoring across their competitive landscape, tracking prices, stock levels, and promotions across 50+ competitor SKUs in real-time. The AI generates pricing recommendations based on their margin targets and inventory position. Humans approve every price change, but now they're making decisions with data instead of guesswork.
The Challenge
Pricing decisions based on gut feel and quarterly competitor checks. No visibility into real-time competitive positioning. Margins eroding as competitors adjusted prices faster.
Our Solution
Built automated competitive price monitoring across 50+ competitor SKUs, with AI-powered pricing recommendations based on margin targets, inventory levels, and market position.
AI Pricing Intelligence System
Real-time competitive monitoring with AI-powered pricing recommendations
Automated scraping of competitor pricing
- -50+ competitor SKUs tracked
- -Price changes detected in minutes
- -Promotion tracking
Real-time price and stock monitoring
- -Continuous monitoring
- -Stock level detection
- -Promotion identification
AI processes competitive landscape
- -Price positioning analysis
- -Demand signal detection
- -Trend identification
Current inventory and velocity data
- -Real-time stock counts
- -Sales velocity metrics
- -Seasonal patterns
Optimal pricing based on all factors
- -Margin target optimization
- -Competitive positioning
- -Inventory-aware pricing
Pricing team reviews and approves changes
- -One-click approval
- -Bulk change review
- -Override capability
Approved prices pushed to all channels
- -E-commerce platform sync
- -POS system updates
- -Marketplace feeds
Alerts for significant market changes
- -Competitor price drops
- -Margin erosion warnings
- -Opportunity alerts
The Result
15% Margin Improvement
“We used to find out we were overpriced when sales dropped. Now we know instantly and can respond. The margin improvement paid for a year of service in the first quarter.”