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It’s not easy being a Bakery Brand: Insights from Digital Shelf

The “Bakery & Snack” category is a fast-growing food segment. Here’s how companies can leverage DataWeave’s e-commerce ...

Moumita Mondal | 3rd Dec, 2022,  

 

The Rapid Rise of Alcohol eCommerce in the UK

Do customers prefer buying alcohol online or via Q-Commerce apps? Did Tesco give a higher discount on Booze in 2022 or Weezy? And what were ...

Varun Sharma | 5th Sep, 2022,  

 

5 Ways DataWeave Helps Brands Drive Growth With Amazon Ads

Consumers are discovering and trialing new eCommerce marketplaces, brands and products at a faster rate than ever before, given the vast amo...

Praveen Sheethalnath | 23rd Aug, 2022,  

 

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 no...

Priyanka Meka | 15th Aug, 2022,  

 

Prime Day Germany 2022 – highlights from the 2 day annual shopping festival!

How does amazon prime day sales stats look this year? Let’s take a look at the Amazon Prime Day Germany 2022 sales stats and highlight...

Priyanka Meka | 8th Aug, 2022,  

 

Prime Day UK 2022 – highlights from the 2 day annual shopping festival!

Amazon Prime Day has been growing year after year. Check out the Amazon Prime Day UK 2022 sales stats from the DataWeave Blog. Read Now! ...

Priyanka Meka | 4th Aug, 2022,  

 

UK Grocery Pricing Wars in 2022! A quick look at Pricing Data we gathered from 5 Grocery retailers i

Understand the insights on who is winning the grocery pricing wars in the UK fought by 5 giant grocery retailers from the DataWeave blog. R...

Varun Sharma | 24th Jul, 2022,  

 

The Role of eCommerce in Sustainable Fashion

In this blog, we will discuss the rise of sustainable fashion & its benefits. We will also discuss marketplaces that help reduce carbon...

Ankitha Nagaraj | 18th Jul, 2022,  

 

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 antic...

Jeevanantham Kailasam | 14th Jul, 2022,  

 

Feminine Hygiene Products Face Supply Chain Shortage and Price Increases

Last week the DataWeave analytics team identified the states most impacted by the baby formula shortage, only to see feminine hygiene produc...

Amy Fieber | 22nd Jun, 2022,  

 

7 Key Metrics that QSRs want (but may not get) from Food Delivery Apps

As the QSR market is projected to be valued at $691 billion by 2022. Here are a few important metrics QSRs need from food delivery apps to i...

Saahil Sachdeva | 15th Jun, 2022,  

 

Baby Formula Shortage Continues Alongside National Price Increases – June 2022

As the baby formula shortage continues, retailers and brands are working quickly to meet evolving consumer demand, considering supply chain ...

Amy Fieber | 14th Jun, 2022,  

 

eCommerce in South Africa: Data-Driven approach to getting ahead

About 70% of South Africans shop online once a month resulting in a massive growth of eCommerce in South Africa. Know how to tap into this g...

Prashant Dixit | 6th Jun, 2022,  

 

How Inflation has hit the Retail Industry

The Impact of inflation on the retail industry has affected the cost of living for various families. Here are the 5 important strategies to ...

Nobel Dhar | 11th May, 2022,  

 

What is Customer Price Perception and why it is important

Learn how to build the right customer price perception by analyzing competitors pricing, promotional strategies and brand image with the hel...

Osheen Jain | 4th May, 2022,  

 

How VCs and Brand Rollups are using Data for faster Acquisitions

Continuous & automated data first brand scouting is the solution to help Brand Rollups & VCs scout for the ideal brand that fit th...

Abhinav Gupta | 3rd Mar, 2022,  

 

How Restaurants can use QSR Intelligence to Drive Sales

Quick service restaurants are not only about delivering great food. They also have to overcome challenges like delivery, logistics & af...

Saahil Sachdeva | 3rd Mar, 2022,  

 

Valentine’s Day eCommerce Insights

Access to these types of real-time digital marketplace insights can enable retailers and brands to make strategic decisions and he...

Akhil Gopi | 11th Feb, 2022,  

 

What Historical Pricing Data can tell you & how to use it

Identify the significance of historical pricing data & how to make the most of it. Maximize your revenue by planning pricing strategies...

Osheen Jain | 11th Feb, 2022,  

 

Best Practices to avoid MAP Violations in 2022

MAP is an agreement between distributors and manufacturers about the minimum price resellers can advertise the products. Read the full blog ...

Osheen Jain | 29th Jan, 2022,  

 

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 ho...

Osheen Jain | 25th Jan, 2022,  

 

Beauty & Grooming Brands that are dominating on Amazon India

Check out the list of brands that dominating on Amazon India in the Beauty and Grooming Industry. Let’s take a look at the list of brands...

Riya Anand | 7th Jan, 2022,  

 

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...

Nadir Islam | 4th Jan, 2022,  

 

6 Promotional Strategies for the Holiday Season

Looking for an effective list of Promotional Strategies for this upcoming season? Find the best 6 strategies to increase sales during holida...

Osheen Jain | 15th Dec, 2021,  

 

How Brands Boost Sales & Satisfaction on Walmart.com

The explosive growth of online shopping has forced brands to re-examine their e-commerce processes to stay competitive and profitable. In pa...

Amy Fieber | 8th Dec, 2021,  

 

Top 7 AI tools for your eCommerce business

7 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Tools for your eCommerce business growth in 2022. Read the blog to know more about Data Warehouse an...

Osheen Jain | 5th Dec, 2021,  

 

How Brands Can Outperform Rivals With Next-Gen Digital Shelf Analytics

As eCommerce grows in complexity, brands need new ways to grow sales and market share. Right now, brands face urgent market pressures like o...

Praveen Sheethalnath | 30th Nov, 2021,  

 

Win Search. Win the Digital Shelf this Holiday Season!

Win Search. Win the Digital Shelf this Holiday Season! ...

Riya Anand | 25th Nov, 2021,  

 

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 2...

Amy Fieber | 23rd Nov, 2021,  

 

Top 10 Retail Analytics that You Must Know

Retail Analytics help merchants to understand their customers, how to increase sales, and much more. Here we share 10 facts about retail ana...

Osheen Jain | 19th Nov, 2021,  

 

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 wan...

DataWeave Marketing | 30th Jul, 2021,  

 

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...

DataWeave Marketing | 22nd Jul, 2021,  

 

As Value Shopping Soars, Pricing Matters More

The pandemic’s profound economic impact sparked a surge in value shopping. Between February and December 2020, 10 million Americans lost t...

DataWeave Marketing | 2nd Jun, 2021,  

 

Similarity matching keeps retailers competitive: Know your rivals

Soaring e-commerce growth has made retail more crowded, complex and competitive. Now retailers face an urgent need to keep an eye on more ri...

DataWeave Marketing | 15th Apr, 2021,  

 

Black Friday Prices Tempt Health & Beauty Shoppers

Black Friday looked downright sultry with desirable discounts on health and beauty products. This year, health and beauty sales faced the th...

DataWeave Marketing | 18th Dec, 2020,  

 

Who Won Black Friday’s Electronics Price War?

Electronics have never been hotter. This year’s COVID-19 pandemic created a seismic shift towards tech, directly affecting retailers’ Bl...

DataWeave Marketing | 11th Dec, 2020,  

 

Black Friday Prices Wowed Fashionistas

Retailers really wanted to dress us up this holiday season. This year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday fashion pricing trends reflect how r...

DataWeave Marketing | 11th Dec, 2020,  

 

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 her...

DataWeave Marketing | 19th Nov, 2020,  

 

Amazon Great Indian Festival Vs Big Billion Day- Who offered better discounts?

Amazon’s Great Indian sale Vs Flipkarts Big Billion Day sale ...

DataWeave Marketing | 4th Nov, 2020,  

 

Prime Day 2020: Home categories fuel retail rivalry & desirable discounts

According to our preliminary analysis of Prime Day 2020, Amazon’s rivals offered more generous discounts within Home categories to stay co...

DataWeave Marketing | 27th Oct, 2020,  

 

Introducing the CPG Brand Monitor by DataWeave

As DataWeave continues to engage with brands and manufacturers of all sizes, a consistent theme keeps emerging, “click and collect trackin...

DataWeave Marketing | 26th Aug, 2020,  

 

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 conf...

Karthik Bettadapura | 6th Mar, 2020,  

 

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 be...

DataWeave Marketing | 8th Jan, 2020,  

 

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...

DataWeave Marketing | 19th Dec, 2019,  

 

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 ...

Nadir Islam | 11th Dec, 2019,  

 

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 sta...

DataWeave Marketing | 5th Dec, 2019,  

 

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 pac...

DataWeave Marketing | 27th Nov, 2019,  

 

Prime Day 2019 Fashion: Were the Deals as Attractive as the Merchandise?

Target and Walmart offered more appealing discounts than Amazon during Prime Day 2019. Statista estimates that e-commerce fashion accounted ...

DataWeave Marketing | 29th Jul, 2019,  

 

Online Furniture Pricing Strategies on 2019 Prime Day

Just as with electronics, other retailers actually offered far better discounts than Amazon during Prime Day 2019. Online furniture sales ha...

DataWeave Marketing | 24th Jul, 2019,  

 

A Study of Deals on Amazon Prime Day 2019 | DataWeave

Our preliminary analysis reveals that Prime Day 2019 had other retailers offering better deals than Amazon in many cases. As Prime Day exten...

DataWeave Marketing | 22nd Jul, 2019,  

 

The Importance of Pricing Parity for Brands

With bricks-and-mortar stores steadily increasing their online presence, the balancing act of pricing online and in-store is now more import...

Michael Gamage | 20th Jun, 2019,  

 

6 Smart Pricing Strategies for eCommerce Success

Over the last decade, the proliferation of e-commerce and the consequent surge in competitiveness among retailers has brought focus to one o...

Shailendra Nagarajan | 24th May, 2019,  

 

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, DataW...

DataWeave Marketing | 10th Jan, 2019,  

 

Consumer Electronics Prices During the Holidays

Consumer electronics has always been one of the most popular product categories for consumers during the Thanksgiving weekend sale each year...

DataWeave Marketing | 21st Dec, 2018,  

 

Decoding Alibaba’s Singles Day Sales | DataWeave

An average of $11.7 million per second was the rate at which Alibaba clocked $1 billion in sales during the first 85 seconds of Singles’ D...

DataWeave Marketing | 12th Dec, 2018,  

 

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 o...

DataWeave Marketing | 30th Jul, 2018,  

 

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...

Nadir Islam | 14th May, 2018,  

 

Clearance Sale Analysis: Retailing Woes Stagger H&M and Toys “R” Us

Confidence amongst retailing analysts was rocked last month by two successive announcements. H&M’s most recent quarterly report, which...

DataWeave Marketing | 30th Apr, 2018,  

 

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 significa...

DataWeave Marketing | 21st Mar, 2018,  

 

Boxing Day Sale: How UK’s Top Retailers and Brands Fared

Following a successful Black Friday in November, the United Kingdom geared up for the 2017 Christmas season in December. Analysts estimate t...

DataWeave Marketing | 19th Jan, 2018,  

 

Myntra Leads End of Year Promotions in Fashion

Following three back-to-back mega-sale events leading up to Diwali, India’s eCommerce companies once again opened the discount floodgates ...

DataWeave Marketing | 5th Jan, 2018,  

 

Tracing Lazada’s Pricing Across the Month-Long Online Revolution Sale

Commencing on the 11th of November and ending just a few days ago on the 12th of December, Southeast Asia’s biggest sale event, the Lazada...

DataWeave Marketing | 26th Dec, 2017,  

 

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 categ...

DataWeave Marketing | 12th Dec, 2017,  

 

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...

DataWeave Marketing | 2nd Dec, 2017,  

 

[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, Blac...

DataWeave Marketing | 29th Nov, 2017,  

 

Walmart’s Online Pricing Analysis | DataWeave

In an increasingly competitive retail landscape and facing intense margin pressures, improving the profitability of online commerce is a gro...

Natt Fry | 27th Nov, 2017,  

 

Alibaba’s Singles Day Sale: Decoding the World’s Biggest Shopping Festival

$17.5 million every 60 seconds. That’s the volume of sales Alibaba generated on 11.11, or Singles Day. This mammoth event, decisively the ...

DataWeave Marketing | 24th Nov, 2017,  

 

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 culmina...

DataWeave Marketing | 23rd Nov, 2017,  

 

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 ...

DataWeave Marketing | 14th Nov, 2017,  

 

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...

DataWeave Marketing | 25th Oct, 2017,  

 

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. Resu...

DataWeave Marketing | 27th Sep, 2017,  

 

Analysis of Target’s Discount Strategy

Earlier this year, we witnessed Amazon and Walmart going head to head in a CPG goods price war of fluctuating intensity that soon rippled ou...

DataWeave Marketing | 22nd Sep, 2017,  

 

Amazon’s Whole Foods Pricing Strategy Analysis | DataWeave

Amazon.com, America’s retail behemoth, dominated headlines in August when it completed its acquisition of Whole Foods in early August 2017...

DataWeave Marketing | 7th Sep, 2017,  

 

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 ...

DataWeave Marketing | 1st Aug, 2017,  

 

Smart Practices for Pricing Products

Top pricing strategies for online retailers “When it comes to retail markets, law of one price is no law at all” — Hal Varian Hal ...

DataWeave Marketing | 6th Dec, 2016,  

 

Introducing the new PriceWeave

PriceWeave provides Competive Intelligence for eRetailers, brands, and manufacturers. Competitive Intelligence helps businesses understand ...

DataWeave Marketing | 31st May, 2016,  

 

7 Features of an Effective Price Intelligence Tool | DataWeave

[This is Part 3 of a series of posts on Competitive Intelligence for Retail. Find the previous posts here: Part 1 and Part 2....

DataWeave Marketing | 31st May, 2016,  

 

Tips on How to Price Your Products | DataWeave

Picture this. You’re approaching the biggest sale of the year for your business, the number of offerings are ever growing and your competi...

DataWeave Marketing | 4th Aug, 2015,  

 

Of broken pumpkins and wasted lemonade

[The idea for this post was given by Mahesh B. L., who is a friend of DataWeave. We are going to have some fun with data below.] Ayudha Puj...

DataWeave Marketing | 4th Aug, 2015,  

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