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Retailers are selling digital ads for third parties more than ever before. It's now a $50 billion industry.
"Amazon dominates #retail media, taking in about three-quarters of all ad dollars. 'Advertising has a [profit] margin of something like 30 to 40%, so at least 10 times as much as they earn on the products they sell'"
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Retailers like Macy's want a bigger slice of e-commerce ad sales - Marketplace
Selling ads on e-commerce sites is a $50 billion industry. Amazon dominates retail media, taking in about 75% of ad dollars.

The retail price of a luxury #ebike is less than the value the average US car loses the moment it's driven off the sales lot
The fact that we pour billions of public dollars into propping up a transportation system that virtually requires car ownership for all but the most privileged--when cheap, safe, fun alternatives are easily available--is criminal

Small Price Changes, Sales Volume, and Menu Cost
Doron Sayag, Avichai Snir, Daniel Levy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07166 https://arxi…

Small Price Changes, Sales Volume, and Menu Cost
The finding of small price changes in many retail price datasets is often viewed as a puzzle. We show that a possible explanation for the presence of small price changes is related to sales volume, an observation that has been overlooked in the existing literature. Analyzing a large retail scanner price dataset that contains information on both prices and sales volume, we find that small price changes are more frequent when products sales volume is high. This finding holds across product catego…

Multi-Facility Location Models Incorporating Multipurpose Shopping Trips
Pawel Kalczynski, Zvi Drezner, Morton O'Kelly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07765

Multi-Facility Location Models Incorporating Multipurpose Shopping Trips
This paper continues to develop and explore the impact of multipurpose trips on retail location. We develop the model of locating multiple competing facilities of a chain where several competing facilities exist in the area. There may be some existing facilities of the same chain as well. The addition of multiple new outlets can cause cannibalization of existing sales, but this effect is mitigated by selecting good locations, and the total market share captured by the chain increases. The intro…