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Case Study: How a US Retailer Replaced Manual Price-Checking With a Daily Competitor Feed

An illustrative example of a common engagement: a US retailer was setting prices using slow, partial manual competitor checks. A daily competitor price feed across multiple retailers provided a complete and current market view.

Case Study Summary

Segment: US Multi-Category Retailer
Challenge: Slow and incomplete competitor price-checking across products and categories.
Solution: Daily competitor price feed for ongoing pricing visibility.
Pilot Delivered:3–7 days

Illustrative example. This case study represents a typical engagement and does not use real client figures. Results vary by retailer, category, and competition.

Background

A mid-sized US retailer selling across several consumer categories relied on a manually maintained spreadsheet for competitor pricing. Team members regularly visited competitor websites, copied prices, and updated spreadsheets.

While the process produced data, it could not keep pace with a large catalog or rapidly changing market conditions.

The ...
... Problem

Manual price-checking does not scale.

The retailer faced three major challenges:

* Only a small portion of the catalog was monitored.
* Competitor pricing data was often outdated before it could be used.
* Teams spent hours collecting data instead of analyzing it.

The Coverage Gap

The greatest risk was not the products being checked—it was the products being ignored. Large portions of the catalog had no competitor pricing reference simply because manual monitoring could not cover everything.

The Solution

The objective was to provide a daily dataset covering the retailer's entire catalog against all major competitors.

A managed multi-retailer price feed was implemented. Each day, competitor prices were collected, standardized, and delivered in a clean dataset ready for immediate use.

BEFORE

* Focused only on top products while the rest of the catalog relied on assumptions.
* Checked only one or two competitors.
* Pricing information was often outdated.
* Hours spent manually updating spreadsheets.
Result:Most of the catalog lacked visibility.

AFTER

* Full catalog monitored every day.
* All key competitors tracked consistently.
* Fresh pricing data available each morning.
* No manual collection required.
* Decisions based on current market conditions.
Result: Complete visibility across the catalog.

Key Improvement

The retailer moved from a manually maintained spreadsheet covering a small portion of products to a daily automated feed covering the entire catalog.

How the Engagement Worked

1. Scope Catalog and Competitors

Products, competing retailers, and required data fields were identified.

2. Pilot Dataset

A validated pilot dataset was delivered within 3–7 days for accuracy review.

3. Full Catalog Deployment

After approval, monitoring expanded across the complete catalog and competitor set.

4. Ongoing Managed Feed

The feed continued to be monitored and maintained as retailer websites changed.

The Outcome

The biggest change was that the pricing team stopped spending time gathering data and started spending time using it.

Each morning, they received a complete view of competitor pricing across the entire catalog.

Results

Coverage: Whole catalog visibility, not just top sellers.
Freshness: Today's prices instead of outdated information.
Time: Hours shifted from data collection to analysis.

Pricing decisions remained with the retailer, but every decision was now supported by complete and current market data.

"We always trusted our pricing instincts. We just never had the data to check them against. Now we do—for the whole catalog, every day."

Takeaway

For most retailers, manual competitor price-checking creates a natural limit on visibility. Teams can only monitor a small portion of products before data becomes outdated.

A managed competitor price feed removes that limitation by providing a complete and current view of the market. It does not make pricing decisions—it ensures those decisions are based on reliable, up-to-date information.

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