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- 24 Apr
How Centralizing Retail Fuel Pricing Can Impact Company Profits
PriceAdvantage Reports on Industry Trend: Fuel Retailers Are Shifting from Decentralized to Centralized Fuel Pricing to Maximize Fuel Gross Profits
PriceAdvantage, a patented software solution that helps retailers optimize fuel prices and automatically execute price changes to their point of sale (POS), pumps, and price signs, released today How Centralizing Retail Fuel Pricing Can Impact Company Profits – a white paper that highlights the retail fuel marketing trend of shifting from decentralized fuel pricing to a centralized pricing model.
During today’s presentation at the SIGMA Spring Conference in Orlando, a panel of fuel retailers shared highlights from the white paper, including how a centralized pricing strategy can benefit retail fuel marketers, both from a financial perspective and staff allocation. The group also discussed how retailers have made this shift, common pitfalls, and most of all – how it impacted gross fuel profits.
- One retailer realized a 2.7% increase in total gallons sold and a 22.2% increase in gross profit dollars during their fiscal 3rd quarter of 2019.
- Several retailers experienced a drastic reduction in the amount of time it took to respond to competitor moves and market conditions.
- Nearly all retailers who have moved from decentralized to a centralized pricing model benefited from a reduction in keying errors related to manual, disparate processes.
Allison Wroe, PriceAdvantage Director of Marketing and author of the white paper, shared, “There recently has been a growing number of fuel retailers who have approached us to help with their centralization projects. As their partner, we observed the direct benefits they realized by centralizing their pricing strategy. Thankfully, some of these retailers were willing to speak publicly regarding their path to centralization.”
Wroe conducted a series of interviews with small, medium and enterprise fuel retailers as well as researched investor reports and published articles as the basis for this white paper. The findings highlight the retailers’ experiences and can be used help create a roadmap for other companies who are interested in centralizing their fuel pricing programs.
The white paper defines the difference between a decentralized and a centralized pricing model and presents actual, real-world examples of problems created by decentralization, catalysts for centralizing fuel pricing, challenges associated with moving to a centralized model, benefits of centralization, and requirements for a successful centralization project.
To read the white paper in its entirety, download How Centralizing Retail Fuel Pricing Can Impact Company Profits.
About PriceAdvantage
PriceAdvantage creates Software to Fuel Your Pricing StrategyTM. Our easy-to-use, highly configurable solution allows fuel marketers to execute their unique fuel pricing strategy faster and more accurately by reducing manual processes and human errors. PriceAdvantage enables customers to make rapid, informed fuel pricing decisions based on their unique business rules, then automatically post new prices to their POS systems, fuel pumps and price signs, and then receive price change confirmation – all in just minutes. PriceAdvantage is singularly focused on fuel pricing software and is a division of a privately held U.S. company, Skyline Products, which produces software solutions and thousands of American-made gas price and transportation signs annually. Learn more at www.PriceAdvantage.com.
