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		<title>Revionics Customer Forum Recap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week was our annual Customer Forum – Insight 2011 – and based on the initial input from attendees it was a great success.    It was the first Revionics Customer Forum that I had the opportunity to be a part of as a member of the Revionics team and wanted to share some high level observations and information about the event.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.priceoptimization-blog.com/2011/11/revionics-customer-forum-recap/</link>
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		<title>Price Optimization takes Center Stage at the Retail Technology Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next week Revionics will be in the audience, proudly watching our customer and partner, Mark Kelso of Pamida, present at the 2011 Retail Technology Conference. Attend RTC to learn how you can up-level your analytical technologies to help category managers and pricing analysts make the best decision on what your prices should be.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.priceoptimization-blog.com/2011/04/price-optimization-retail-technology-conference/</link>
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		<title>The Arsenal for Food and Gas Cost Increases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Revionics Price Optimization software can help retailers respond to the new wave of cost increases due to commodity and gas price increases. This software helps retailers through proactive planning, automation of execution efforts, and preventing negative impact to consumer loyalty.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.priceoptimization-blog.com/2011/02/arsenal-of-food-and-gas-cost-increases/</link>
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		<title>Is your markdown aisle really a positive pricing action or just a dumping ground?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Richard Huston, Director of Solutions Consulting, Revionics Inc. Markdowns are sometimes seen as a way to just push out unwanted inventory and clear space for more desirable products.  Here are some questions and thoughts to consider… Do you have thoughtful merchandising strategies for markdowns? As part of the product and pricing lifecycle, the markdown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.priceoptimization-blog.com/2010/10/is-your-markdown-aisle-really-a-positive-pricing-action-or-just-a-dumping-ground/</link>
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		<title>Not Your Father&#8217;s Category Manager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jim Sills, Chief Technology Officer, Revionics Inc. Category Management is undergoing a quiet revolution. Gone are the days when a category manager could trust in intuition and experience alone. The new generation is embracing Retail Science to make better price, promotion, merchandise and assortment decisions. Retail Science applies sophisticated data analysis to help better [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.priceoptimization-blog.com/2010/08/not-your-fathers-category-manager/</link>
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		<title>Are you able to think strategically about your categories?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dan Muldowney, Strategic Account Executive One common characteristic I have found with many retailers that I have worked over the last six years is that category managers spend far too much of their valuable time on price maintenance.   Strategy often takes a backseat to other priorities such as shifting costs and competition.  In many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.priceoptimization-blog.com/2010/08/are-you-able-to-think-strategically-about-your-categories/</link>
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		<title>Driving Gross Margin and Sales Per Square Foot with Price Optimization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jim Sills, Chief Technology Officer, Revionics Inc. Are you satisfied with your gross margin and sales per square foot? If not, consider putting the customer first by adopting consumer-centric technologies for pricing.  In &#8220;Putting the customer first&#8220;, Susan Boyme emphasizes how important it is to “evaluate price elasticity and tailor pricing across specific regions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.priceoptimization-blog.com/2010/06/driving-gross-margin-and-sales-per-square-foot-with-price-optimization/</link>
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		<title>The Importance of Defining Category Roles in Pricing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Erik Osborn, Business Consultant at Revionics Price optimization works best when the retailer is confident in their pricing strategy for their business and the product categories they carry.  For this reason, we chose to blog about the importance of defining category role when approaching any pricing initiative – whether your initiative is around everyday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.priceoptimization-blog.com/2010/06/the-importance-of-defining-category-roles-in-pricing/</link>
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		<title>Five Things Retailers Should Plan For In This Quarter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Group Contribution from the Revionics Consulting Team If any of us had a crystal ball, we would most likely be enjoying a relaxing life somewhere, as we would have foreseen the recent changes in our economy and been better prepared to weather the storm. But since most of us are not privileged to that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.priceoptimization-blog.com/2010/05/five-things-retailers-should-plan-for-in-this-quarter/</link>
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		<title>Integration&#8212;Tomorrow’s Solution Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Jim Sills,  Ph.D., CTO, Revionics, Inc. Revionics’ mission is to increase retailer profitability by enabling better management of price, promotion, markdown, inventory, assortment &#38; space. Revionics is unique in that we offer an integrated solution that shares a common demand forecast across all of these functions. In this article, I answer the question, “Why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.priceoptimization-blog.com/2010/03/integration-tomorrow%e2%80%99s-solution-today/</link>
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