Welcome to Intelligence Node's Blog. Regardless of where you are on your retail analytics and machine learning journey, our blog covers a vast range of topics to maximize your retail growth and ensure your success.
Fitbit had a tough time maintaining its status quo as the category leader in fitness trackers and overall wearables in 2017. Falling to the third place for the first time in the first quarter of 2017, between Chinese gadget maker Xiaomi and Apple, what the fitness brand could do with is a little introspection. Product […]
To boost product visibility and sales with optimized prices, retailers and brands can use retail data analytics to access real-time insights into the global e-commerce landscape. Let’s look at how Michigan-based furniture manufacturer Herman Miller can use retail data analytics to gain a competitive advantage in the global retail market.
Introduction Online retail businesses have to a lot to worry about and fight against but perhaps nothing quite screams danger as the financial aspect. Shallow pockets and thin resources, overwhelming competition from both big brand-name businesses and and smaller online retailers, declining sales and so on – these are just some of the challenges faced […]
Tracking competition can be a fool’s errand if not done properly. By properly, we mean using modern technology to cover all the aspects that define your competitor’s product and their pricing methods. In that regard, companies usually target competition that is nearest to them in terms of local positioning. Direct competition, if you will. However, […]
Pricing objective is a goal that a company sets in order to determine the cost of its product or service. Objectives are usually related to four major groups: profitability sales volume market shares competition
What is our Spikes & Dips Series? Intelligence Node’s Spikes & Dips series tracks the retail price change of a basket of products spread across online retailers using our real-time retail analytics software. ‘Spikes & Dips’ covers the top 1000+ leading North American e-commerce retailers and is continuously monitored by proprietary market-monitoring algorithms. Intelligence Node’s […]
Showrooming is the practice where shoppers examine items during store visits, but choose to buy them online because they are cheaper there. Online retailers are in a position to offer better deals as they don’t have to bear the same operational costs as their brick-and-mortar counterparts. Effectively, traditional retailers unwittingly act as showrooms for ecommerce […]
Not to be confused with product bundling, basket-based pricing is a smart tactic to entice visitors into buying more. It’s no secret that customers everywhere love a good bargain. Discounts, flash sales, coupons, cash-back and seasonal pricing are liberally used by retailers’ to increase footfalls/visits and thereby drive sales. The way basket-based pricing differs from […]
Retail analytics software collects a plethora of data ranging from pricing information, stock levels, catalogue assortments, discounts, and much more. This information is stored and collated into large databases where it is processed using statistical algorithms to record and track trends and patterns. From this data, there is a huge breadth of intelligence that can […]
