Cluster B · B01
Price book with effective dates and zones
Already described in the planned catalog (not built). Typical of: Big-box, warehouse club and mass merchants; Supermarket and grocery chains; Small-box discount and dollar stores and others.
Planned
Elements
The pieces this function usually contains in a large organisation:
- Price zones by region or store group
- Scheduled future price changes
- Price history and audit
- Emergency price override
Catalog items that already cover part of it
- Scheduled price change PRC-0011
- Price change history PRC-0010
- Price list by outlet PRC-0003
Classification
- Status
- Present in catalog
- Fit
- Core candidate
- Suggested module
- PRC: Pricing & Tax Rules
- Suggested attributes
- Lite and Pro; priority Standard; always offline. Starting points only.
- Cluster
- Pricing, promotions and merchandising
- Public excerpts
- domain analysis
Archetypes and companies
Big-box, warehouse club and mass merchants; Supermarket and grocery chains; Small-box discount and dollar stores; Home improvement and building-supply retail; Apparel, department and specialty retail; Fuel retail, forecourts and convenience stores.
Example companies in these archetypes: Walmart, Costco, Target, Sam's Club, BJ's Wholesale Club, Meijer, Kroger, Albertsons, Publix, Ahold Delhaize USA, H-E-B, Whole Foods Market. These come from general knowledge unless a source code is shown on the archetype page; it is not a statement that each company runs every element, and it implies no relationship.
Closest industry pages
- General merchandise and big-box stores
- Grocery and supermarkets
- Convenience stores
- Home improvement and hardware stores
- Furniture and home furnishings
- Apparel and footwear retail
- Specialty retail (books, toys, sporting goods, jewelry, pets, crafts)
- Travel retail and duty-free
- Fuel and gasoline stations
Next: Promotions engine (buy X get Y, mix and match, tiered).
Status is a hand review against catalog names and descriptions and can be wrong. See the method.