Fixing prices a century of setting, posting and adjusting retail prices
"Shedding light on a range of price adjustment mechanisms and price display technologies, this incisive book offers a clear overview of the retail price setting and alteration process. Based on a detailed study of a century of pricing practices in the US retail sector, it explores the anthropol...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Northampton
Edward Elgar Publishing
2023, 2023
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBooks Collection Business & Economics - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Contents: Introduction: Studying the display of prices
- 1. Indexing prices: Prices and the fingers of the invisible hand
- 2. Tagging prices: The proliferation of price tag technologies
- 3. Managing prices: Price cutting strategies
- 4. Ruling prices: Price ceiling policies
- 5. Printing, sticking, and stamping prices: Rebalancing power between manufacturers and retailers
- 6. Infrastructuring prices: From paper to digital price systems
- 7. Digitalizing prices: The long history of electronic shelf labels
- 8. Conclusions
- References
- Index
- Includes bibliographical references and index