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Early Black Friday Deals Analyzed: How Top Retailers Stack Up on Discounts
Pre-Black Friday 2024: Our pricing intelligence reveals how attractive early holiday deals really are, comparing discounts across major retailers from Walmart’s aggressive 57% to Amazon’s conservative strategy.
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Do Amazon’s Competitors Lower Prices During Prime Day?
Uncover the strategic pricing moves of major retailers during Prime Day 2024. Essential reading for retailers seeking to optimize their pricing intelligence and competitive edge.
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Amazon Prime Day Pricing Trends 2024: Deals and Discounts Galore Across Categories
Amazon Prime Day 2024 has once again shattered records, with more items sold during the two-day event than any previous Prime Day. Prime members worldwide saved billions across all categories, while independent sellers moved an impressive 200 million items. At DataWeave, we conducted an extensive analysis of the discounts offered by Amazon across major categories.…
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Cinco de Mayo 2024 Pricing Insights: An Analysis of Discounts Amid Inflation
Explore the intricate dynamics of Cinco de Mayo pricing, and inflation impact in this comprehensive analysis. Find out how retailers strategize to attract consumers, navigate inflationary pressures, and capitalize on this vibrant celebration of Mexican-American heritage.
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How Monitoring and Analyzing End-User Prices can Help Retailers and Brands Gain a Competitive Edge
Accurate pricing intelligence is crucial for retailers and brands in the eCommerce arena. Discover why tracking the “end-user price” – the true cost to consumers after discounts and fees – is essential for enhanced pricing strategies.
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Which Amazon Sale Offered Better Deals: Prime Day in July or Big Deal Days in October?
Uncover surprising insights on Amazon’s Prime Day events. View our in-depth analysis of October’s Prime Big Deal Days and July’s Prime Day event across key categories and brands.
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Backpacks to Binders: Examining Back-to-School Price Hikes in 2023
Our analysis of the back-to-school category across major retailers reveals an average price surge of 9.8% in 2023.
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Amazon India’s Pricing and Discounts on Prime Day 2023: A Deep Dive Analysis Across Leading Categories and Brands
Learn about the pricing strategies and discounts offered by Amazon and Flipkart during Amazon Prime Day 2023 in India across the Apparel, Home & Furniture, Consumer Electronics, and Health & Beauty categories.
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Navigating the Turbulent Home and Furniture eCommerce Market in 2023 with the Power of Competitive Intelligence
Learn about the pricing strategies of leading home and furniture retailers in 2023 and how they can leverage DataWeave’s competitive intelligence and product matching to achieve price leadership consistently.
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Fashion eCommerce 2023: Leveraging Pricing Intelligence to Stay Competitive Despite Reduced Demand
Learn the pricing strategies of leading fashion retailers in the US on the backdrop of inflation, reduced demand, and overstocking and how they can leverage pricing intelligence to stay competitive.
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Impact of Inflation on Grocery: Pricing Insights on Leading US Retailers
Inflation, like an invisible force, silently shapes the dynamics of economies, gradually eroding the purchasing power of consumers and leaving its imprint on various industries. High costs, hiring lags, and stagnating earnings pose severe challenges to businesses. One industry segment that intimately feels the impact of inflation is grocery, where price increases can be extremely…
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Prime Day India 2022 – highlights from the 2 day annual shopping festival!
Amazon Prime Day India 2022 – Here are the much-awaited sales deals, stats and analysis of the 2-day annual shopping festival. Read now for more details.
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U.S. Prime Day Deals 2022: Promotion Intelligence First Look
As inflation hits another 40-year high at 9.1 percent, U.S. consumers geared up for their first sign of hope and relief in the form of anticipated discount buys – 2022 Amazon Prime Days, or so we thought. While Prime Days have grown to become a promotional period almost as important as Black Friday to digital…
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How short term Stockouts on Amazon can have a long-term impact on your eCommerce business
Learn how stockouts on Amazon can impact your eCommerce sales. Read Now!
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eCommerce Performance Analytics for CPG Private Label
The combination of economic uncertainty, inflation, and perceived affordability has increased consumer’s willingness to buy and try more private label products, challenging National brands to differentiate their eCommerce strategies, especially those related to price positioning, in other ways. Our previously released report, Inflation Accelerates Private Label Share and Penetration, confirmed 8 out of 10 brands…
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Quick Commerce in 2022: An Era of Hyperlocal Delivery
Know about the importance of quick commerce or Q-Commerce & its benefits, also read about factors to consider for quick commerce and how to implement them
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2021 Cost-Push Inflationary Trends Ran Rampant, Impacting Holiday Discounts
Business has been anything but usual this holiday season, especially in the digital retail world. The holiday hustle and bustle historically seen in stores was once again occurring online, but not as anticipated given the current strength of consumer demand and the reemergence of COVID-19 limiting in-store traffic. While ‘Cyber Weekend’, Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday,…
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2021 Cyber Weekend Preliminary Insights
The exponential growth of eCommerce has forever changed holiday shopping as we know it. What was once led by the launch of Cyber Monday in 2005, has since expanded to ‘Cyber Five’ in 2018, now spans beyond an eight-week period, and is collectively the busiest digital shopping period of the year. Most retail websites have…
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Gold, Gift Hampers & Gadgets – brands that sparkled this Diwali!
Celebrate Diwali with a smile & make this shopping season in India count by purchasing crackers, chocolates & sharing Diwali gift hampers with your loved ones.
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Discounts continue to fizzle out on Amazon-Flipkart as e-commerce gathers steam
Around 30 percent of electronic products across Amazon and 19 percent across Flipkart continued to be sold without any discount during October which is ironically seen as the festive month where the two companies make tall claims about deals and discounts offered around Indian festivals. Out of the 70-80 percent products where discounts were available,…
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Amazon-Flipkart sops war in festive sales fizzles out, shows data
Discounts may have been scaled down as the e-commerce market matures and the government looks out for alleged malpractices. Radhika Subramanium made umpteen trips to the shiny black Bosch mixer-grinder on her phone in the last few weeks. She put it in her shopping cart and waited for the festive season sale to begin, hoping to get a good deal. At…
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Amazon Prime Day Secrets all Brands need to know.
Prime Day or not, brands need to make sure their Digital Shelf is well stocked, highly discoverable in crowded marketplaces, have the right offers and discounts to stay competitive, all while making sure their products have glowing reviews, ratings and optimized content. While this is a year-round effort, brands go the extra mile on Prime…
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Amazon Prime Day 2021 Discounts Set Home Leaders Apart
Home is where the shopping cart is. After last year’s blistering pace of e-commerce sales growth in the home category, we at DataWeave wanted to know how Prime Day 2021 discounts on home products would impact retailers and brands around the world. We focused our analysis on how international retailers adapted their Prime Day pricing…
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Prime Day 2021’s Best Fashion Discounts Around the World
Consumers are moving beyond yoga pants. After a long year of pandemic lockdowns and the casual comfort of a homebody lifestyle, shoppers are giving their wardrobes a makeover. During this year’s Prime Day sales event, retailers around the world were well prepared for fashion shoppers’ enthusiasm for a fresh look. That’s why we at DataWeave…
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Prep, Prime and Plenish For Prime Day India 2021
After demonetization, Covid-19 has probably been one of the worst scenarios for the retail sector in India. The entire nation went into lockdown and the industry noticed some big changes around the entire globe. From remote working to shopping, everything turned to digital and Bharat witnessed new trends across payments, e-commerce, and more. Not surprisingly,…
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Prime Day 2021 Reflected the Global Health & Beauty Category
As consumers socialize more this year, retailers around the world are competing for sales in the torrid health & beauty category. That’s why we at DataWeave wanted to know how Prime Day 2021 discounts played a role in the pricing strategies for health & beauty products. We focused our analysis on how global retailers adapted…
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Who Won Prime Day 2021’s Consumer Electronics Price War?
Amazon’s Prime Day 2021 global shopping event took place June 21 and 22, 2021 and smashed previous sales records. At DataWeave, we wanted to know how Prime Day 2021 deals and discounts on electronics compared across retailers and regions. We focused on how retailers adapted their Prime Day pricing strategies to stand out in the…
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Amazon’s losing its pricing advantage this holiday season
Amazon’s pricing advantage has declined in key categories, compared to last year as we enter 2020’s holiday season. The holidays are here and the retail industry is gearing up for the yearly stampede. In a report published by Bain & Company, in partnership with DataWeave, it was observed that, “When it comes to pricing, Amazon’s…
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How Prime Day 2020 Deals Influenced Retail Pricing Strategies
Our preliminary analysis reveals that Prime Day 2020 motivated Amazon’s rivals to offer deeper discounts in key categories to try to make their merchandise more magnetic and lure consumers away from the e-commerce giant. This year’s Prime Day is momentous, as the COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged more consumers to make online shopping a more regular…
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Amazon Triples Down on its Private-label Product Portfolio
Among Amazon’s most prominent and decisive steps in achieving retail dominance over the last few years has been its focus on expanding its private label portfolio. The most recent collaborative report between DataWeave and Coresight Research determines that Amazon’s private label assortment in early 2020 has grown three-fold over the previous two years, most of which…
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Coronavirus Outbreak: Impact on E-Commerce Retailers and Consumer Brands
The Coronavirus, otherwise known as COVID-19, has made landfall on U.S. shores. At the time of writing this article, there are over 230 confirmed cases in the country and 12 deaths. The growing unease about the virus, which has quickly accumulated 95,000+ confirmed cases globally, has, among other things, adversely affected businesses and stock markets…
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Black Friday 2019 Pricing for Online Furniture
For today’s shoppers, instant gratification is the need of the hour. It’s, therefore, no surprise that furniture e-retail has been picking up steam over the last decade. What was once a norm to physically touch and feel before making a purchase, is now just a few clicks away. Retailers have bridged the gap by making…
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Health & Beauty on Black Friday: Analyzing Pricing Strategies of Top U.S. Retailers
We’ve come a long way from face paint and medicinal herbs to multi-billion dollar industries revolving around health and beauty. Customers are getting increasingly bombarded with variety that promises something for everyone. In fact, a recent DataWeave study identified Health & Beauty as one of the most popular CPG categories in the U.S., both in…
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Fashion on Black Friday: Decoding Pricing Strategies of Top U.S. Retailers
Over the last few Thanksgiving Weekend sales, fashion, what was a category once typically reserved for offline purchases, has evolved into a regularly marked down and popular category as shoppers get more comfortable making these purchases online. This can be credited to the ease of purchase that retailers offer – trials, returns, etc. combined with the…
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Black Friday Sale: Breaking Down Pricing Strategies in Consumer Electronics
Online holiday shopping (Nov-Dec) in the US for 2019 is projected to be $143.7B, a 14.1% increase from 2018. This sets a rather exciting stage for retail giants in the battle to claim market share. Interesting patterns emerge as each one tries to out-smart the other. Black Friday, in particular, is when most of the…
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Amazon on course for an aggressive Black Friday
The holidays are around the corner and that much awaited holiday cheer, has now become directly proportional to the arrival of an Amazon package. According to a new report, in partnership with Bain & Company, DataWeave has observed that early in November, Amazon had the lowest price 30%-50% of the time and matched the lowest…
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Thanksgiving Weekend Sale: How Top US Consumer Brands Fared
Online retailers in the US have enjoyed an impressive turnover during 2018’s Thanksgiving weekend sale. Over the last few weeks, DataWeave has published deep-dive reports on the performance of top US retailers in fashion and consumer electronics during this period, detailing their discounting and product strategies across several product types. In continuation of our series…
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Evolution of Amazon’s US Product Assortment
As with many other product categories, Amazon has made a significant incursion in Apparel — a key battleground category in retail today. Recently, DataWeave once more collaborated with Coresight Research, a retail-focused research firm to publish an in-depth report revealing insights on Amazon’s approach to its US fashion offerings. Since our initial collaborative report in…
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Inside India’s eCommerce Battle: Attractive Offers Usher In The Festive Season
It’s festival season in India again and shoppers took advantage of aggressive cutthroat competition between Indian online retailers to drive sales to unprecedented highs. All the major Indian eCommerce websites including, Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, and Shopclues opted to go head to head by holding their first sale event this season over 4 to 5 days…
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Prime Day Sale: Unraveling the Highs and Lows of Amazon’s Flagship Event
Another year, another round of media frenzy, and another set of records broken. In only three years, Amazon’s Prime Day has evolved into one of the landmark sale events of the shopper’s calendar. Reports indicate that this year’s sale made a major splash, raking in over $4.2 billion in sales — a 33% increase compared…
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How to Win the Coveted Amazon Buy Box | DataWeave
Did you know that over 80% of purchases on Amazon.com is via the buy box? While Amazon is all the rage today, raking in 43% of all eCommerce dollars, thousands of merchants on the online marketplace look to seize every opportunity to attract shoppers and drive sales each day. And for these merchants, getting on…
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Amazon’s Fashion & Apparel Product Assortment | DataWeave
Apparel remains one of the key battleground categories in retail today, and like in most other product categories, Amazon has made significant in-roads here. Beyond expanding the range of product offerings and brands in its marketplace, Amazon has also launched several private label brands in this vertical and looked to drive more sales as a…
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Consumer Packaged Goods Join The Black Friday Blitz
While the Thanksgiving weekend sale, which includes Black Friday and Cyber Monday, is famous for attractive offers across all consumer categories, it remains better known for its discounts on Electronics and Fashion. Consumer goods, traditionally, have evaded much the hype. This year, notwithstanding notoriously slim margins, consumer goods and grocery retailers and brands joined Electronics…
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Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday Parade Discounts in Fashion
Fashion has always been one of the great engines of retail, and two of its iconic sale events are Thanksgiving and Black Friday. While Black Friday was traditionally an in-store shopping event, a large number of shoppers have migrated online taking much of the sales action with them. Despite shoppers typically liking to be able…
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[INFOGRAPHIC] Thanksgiving vs Black Friday vs Cyber Monday: The Electronics Price War Heats Up
Alibaba may have raked in some $25 billion on Singles’ Day in the largest one-day sales turnover ever. In the Western world, however, Black Friday remains an economic force. This Black Friday, American shoppers spent a record $5 billion online in just 24 hours, representing a 16.9 percent increase in dollars spent online compared with…
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Under the Microscope: Lazada’s 11.11 Online Revolution Sale
Lazada’s signature event, Online Revolution, is a month-long sale extravaganza that commenced with a Mega Sale on 11 November, and culminates in an End-Of-Year sale on 12 December. The shopping event is held across six southeast Asian countries — Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam — making it the region’s biggest retail event.…
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Black Friday Sales Season: How US Retailers Are Gearing Up
In today’s rapidly evolving online and mobile worlds, few things encapsulate the competitive nature of the online retail battlefield like the Black Friday sales season. With this year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale events just around the corner, 2017 promises another titanic tussle between contenders. The holiday shopping season commences on Black Friday, November…
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Our Analysis of Diwali Season Sales
As the battle of the Indian eCommerce heavyweights continues to accelerate, we have witnessed three separate sale events compressed into the last four weeks of this festive season. Flipkart has come out with all guns blazing following its multi-billion-dollar funding round, leaving Amazon with little choice but to follow suit with its own aggressive promotions.…
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Festive Season Sale: Who’s Winning the Great Indian eCommerce Battle?
In the lead up to October’s Diwali celebrations, almost all major Indian e-retailers had announced mammoth sale events for last week. Resuming the epic battle of India’s online shopping carts during festival seasons, Flipkart, together with Jabong and Myntra, kicked off their five-day-long “Big Billion Days” sales on September 20, while Amazon India‘s “Great Indian…
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Was Amazon’s Prime Day Sale Really That Big a Deal?
Hint: Only in some product categories Amazon’s Prime Day sale, the first-of-its-kind in India, made a conspicuous splash across the media a couple of weeks ago, with several stories of the sale’s dramatic success doing the rounds. For 30 hours spread over 10th and 11th of July, the online retail giant rolled out deals as…
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Introducing the new PriceWeave
PriceWeave provides Competive Intelligence for eRetailers, brands, and manufacturers. Competitive Intelligence helps businesses understand their competition better, take timely decisions, and increase sales. Our retail pricing intelligence tool serves the following major purposes: Compare: PriceWeave lets you access products from across any number of sources and organize them for a straightforward apples-to-apples comparison. Monitor: Our intuitive…