The topic does lend itself to wielders of the big shovel, no question about it. The most elaborate explanation I've seen is in Scot Morris's Book of Strange Facts & Useless Information (1979):
"In 1876, Melville E. Stone decided that what Chicago needed was a penny newspaper to compete with the nickel papers then on the stands. But there was a problem: with no sales tax, and with most goods priced for convenience at even-dollar figures, there weren't many pennies in general circulation. Stone understood the consumer mind, however, and convinced several Chicago merchants to drop their prices--slightly. Impulse buyers, he explained, would more readily purchase a $3.00 item if it cost "only" $2.99. Shopkeepers who tried the plan found that it worked, but soon they faced their own penny shortage. Undaunted, Stone journeyed to Philadelphia, bought several barrels of pennies from the mint, and brought them back to the Windy City. Soon Chicagoans had pennies to spare and exchanged them for Stone's new paper."
Very interesting, maybe even true (up to a point), but probably not the reason prices end in .99 today. The problem: Melville Stone ran the Daily News for only a few months before selling out in 1876. Judging from Daily News advertisements, prices ending in 9 (39 cents, 69 cents, etc.) were rare until well into the 1880s and weren't all that common then. The practice didn't really become widespread until the 1920s, and even then prices as often as not ended in .95, not .99.
So what's the real explanation? Having spent two hours poring over the microfilm--no guarantee that I'm not full of BS, but at least it's scientific BS--I'd say it was retail price competition in the 1880s. Advertising prices in the newspapers was rare before 1880 but common after 1890. At first prices were usually rounded off to the nickel, dime, or dollar, but it wasn't long before a few smaller operators looking for an edge began using what might be called "just under" pricing (49 cents, $1.95, and so on), no doubt in an effort to convince the gullible they were getting a bargain.
The idea caught on surprisingly slowly. Even in the 1920s some large merchants still rounded prices off to the nearest dollar or on larger items to the nearest $5 or sawbuck. Today's custom of having nearly every price end in 99, 95, or 49 cents or dollars (or just a 9 for items under $5) is of fairly recent vintage.
... across the country. An item costing $9.99 sounds a lot better than $10.00. Putting the price into double digits may influence the customer of declining the item that he/she wants. With the rising costs of the nickel, this could lead to rounding up prices to the nearest dime. There's so many results that could happen in our country's future. This change could lead to disastrous
Creating uniqueness in your product or services typically involves creating distinct features, functionality, support, durability, and brand image that your customers value ((MindTools.com, 2015). Dollar Tree has uniform pricing of $1.00 or less in all of its stores and their locations are more convenient than that of the other discount retail stores such as Wal-Mart and Target. Because all of Dollar Tree’s products are priced at $1.00 or less, consumers find it easier to shop there and a more pleasant experience. Dollar Trees product assortment is different from the other discount retailers; they carry mostly private labels. The difference in product assortment combined with its pricing makes Dollar Tree less vulnerable to competition ((MindTools.com, 2015). Dollar Tree also attempts to differentiate their stores from others by making their stores easier to navigate through by being well organized and ensuring that their stores are well lit, clean and
Wal-Mart was not always the superstore that it is today. In the late 1940’s, Sam Walton took up the ownership of a Ben Franklin’s store in Newport, Arkansas. Even during the time before Wal-Mart, Walton was all about keeping prices low. It is every business’s objective to find the right balance between the prices of an item to meet the demands of the consumer in order to maximize revenue. How could Walton still make a profit while keeping the prices low for the consumer? Even while still operating the Ben Franklin’s store, he would purchase products from wholesalers and minimally markup the price. Where most retailers would rely on markup prices to gain profit, Walton would rely on pure volume in order to make up for the low prices (Frank, 2006). This was a smart decision on his part because it makes sense that if a consumer can get the same product for a lower price then they will purchase the cheaper product. It was not until 1962 that Sam Walton opened the first Wal-Mart store, also in Arkan...
After he was hired, then CEO Ron Johnson introduced a pricing philosophy called “the true price,” which involved the replacement of sales through coupons with everyday low prices. This eliminated the need to inflate prices that would later be discounted for sales. However, Johnson overestimated the rationality of consumers and forgot that coupons were communication tools that announced the beginning of the shopping season5. Their core customers were dependent on coupons and often times waited until sales before they would shop. The coupons gave customers psychological justification to shop for good deals. Besides alienating core customers by removing coupons and sales, he tried to turn JC Penny into a more modern shopping experience complete with boutique stores within the larger store, Wi-Fi, and juice bars with smoothies and coffee3. National brands replaced p...
Historically, Dollar General operated in a highly price sensitive market segment, with 55% of its consumer base earning an average annual gross income of less than $40,000.[2] To attract these customers, Dollar General employed an Everyday Low Price strategy similar to Wal-Mart’s. Thus, keeping costs low and driving high traffic volumes were critical to the company’s financial success. Dollar General achieved this strategy in several ways, including keeping rents and labor costs low, locating in low-income, high traffic areas that offered consumers few substitutes, and offering a wide variety of popular CPG and white label goods.
The prices for cereal depend on the brand and weight. Cheerios has many on the market for many years and their prices depends on the weight, ounces.
On the other end of the spectrum Woolworths prides itself on ‘value for money’ therefore its pricing structure is very dynamic and can vary from store to store and economic determinants. Woolworths recognises the need to participate in ‘price’ to stay competitive and employ the strategy of ‘KVI’. ‘Woolworths will conduct weekly basket checks against the price of its competitors ensuring that prices remain competitive on items that are relevant to that week or month and to flag products that erode value over time’ (3.2.13 KHAN. S, 2011) & (3.2.8 KHAN. S,
In the example above these are both five packs and the Kraft is $4.59, and the Annie's is $5.39. With 80 cents you can grab another 20 cents and then you have a good bag of chips from the Edgewood Middle School vending machines. Imagine having delicious Kraft Mac n cheese with a good bag of chips. Yeah, that's better than having gross organic Mac n' Cheese without delicious chips. then , if you break down the price to the unit rate, Kraft is 91 cents per box, and Annie's is $1.07. This shows that they is actually quite a big difference for each Mac n cheese. Why would Annie's be more expensive if it doesn't even taste as good. Kraft Mac n' cheese
One important thing when looking at our price structure was determining the structure or our product. We decided to go 15% Cheeto and 85% bagel. Our reasoning was that this item is a bagel being accented with Hot Cheetos. The Hot Cheetos are meant to add a unique flavor; if we add too much Hot Cheeto flavor it might overpower the bagel. This would be bad because it would alienate the main design of the product thus not applying correctly to our customer group.
So as Jamba Juice transformed so did its prices. Now one thing to keep in mind Jamba Juice specializes in smoothies and juices, and there are no other big firms that supply smoothies. So up until 2012, a small Jamba Juice smoothie costed $3.19, but when the company went “eco-friendly” from Styrofoam to Double Walled Paper cups prices rose .60 cents and stayed dormant at $3.79 for a good 3 years (Alexander, 2014). Although there is a change to the input in supply, the demand stays the same and eventually falls back to equilibrium. Then in prices rose again in July 2015 from $3.79 to $3.99 for a small Jamba Juice smoothie to compensate for the minimum wage increase that took place. Now you think, “Oh no big deal right?” Wrong. Consumers noticed, they noticed even more when prices rose again 3 months later in October that same year to $4.79 for a small smoothie. So in the span of 6 months Jamba Juice had raised their price $1.00 (Jamba Juice Company, n.d.). Although they noticed it did not really change the market for Jamba
One might also be quite upset to find that most parking meters won’t take the minute coin. Really most Americans carry around enormous amounts of pennies but have no use at all for them. Honestly, all they have become are pretty pocket weights. If the penny were to be eliminated stores have the option to round down to the nearest nickel. Even though most speculate that most businesses will lean towards the nearest dollar, some may open their eyes to the fact rounding prices down is also an option. Just look at the extremely successful Chipotle who at one point moved their prices down and got very positive feedback (Livingston, Amy). Since they may do more harm than help, pennies should be taken out of U.S. currency.
Setting prices too high would discourage purchasing and setting prices too low negatively affects revenue. While several pricing strategies exist, the use of a value-based pricing system, as implemented at Cabela’s, offers an optimal strategy that meet both customer expectations and company requirements.
Dollar General keep their stock range fairly basic, only having important consumables, clothing some food items and seasonal and promotional products, this enables them to keep prices of items low with the maximum price of an item found in a Dollar General store being $35.00
Currently Bitcoin prices are going up like crazy. It is likely that the price will stabilize at around $ 10 U.S. U.S. current $ 200. Currently the price is going up so fast an online store would have to adjust their prices almost daily if they wanted to accept Bitcoin. It is very convenient.
Price is the values entirety that consumers trade for the advantages of having or utilizing the product or services. Different places and cultural have different spending culture. Therefore the price has to be relevant according to the product offer because it can reflect the image of a