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Service Overview: |
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Channels Served:
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Our shops focus primarily on drug, general merchandise and grocery items. In our years of experience, we have shopped almost every product category from sporting goods to apparel and can manage almost any request.
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Retailers Shopped:
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CPI routinely shops store specific locations of the leading retailers. We successfully shop 99% of the chains we're requested to audit.
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Typical Order:
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Most of our clients subscribe to a scheduled frequency of price shops across a number of metropolitan areas with 3-5 major competitors per metropolitan area. The list of SKUs changes by about 75% between scheduled price shops.
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Price Codes:
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The focus of our research is the everyday price for the merchandise we're auditing. Price codes are used to denote sale items, bonus buys, club-card prices and other promotions. Out-of-stocks are also recorded. Price codes are recorded in a separate field for your reference.
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Data Format:
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CPI provides price data in a number of standard formats, including: Excel, Access, Ascii Csv/Txt and more. CPI can also customize the data format to meet your unique requirements.
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Getting Started:
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Most companies start with a small order, two to three metropolitan areas, a custom list of products and 5-15 locations. Click here to request a quote for services.
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