UK Toy Retailers Make Over 87,000 Price Increases During Black Friday Week 2016

 

 

 

 With Black Friday 2016 forecast to break UK records for retail sales in a single day, leading price monitoring firm Competitor Monitor tracked price changes for 10,000 toys sold online by over 20 major toy retailers during the Black Friday week (21 Nov – 28 Nov 2016) including Cyber Monday.

·         There were over 209,000 price changes made by Toy retailers during the 7-day period.

·         Over 40% of price changes by Toy Retailers during Black Friday week were price increases.

·         Amazon accounted for 85% of all price changes for all toy retailers over the 7 day Black Friday week.

·         Argos, Amazon and Tesco.com had the highest price increase percentage of all price adjustments made for their assortment during Black Friday Week.

·         Debenhams, Disney Store and Early Learning Centre (ELC) had 95% of their price adjustment activities over the same period as price decreases.

·         There were 31,247 price changes by toy retailers and 33% of these price changes were price increases.

·         The Toy Store and Smyths Toys showed the highest price increases as part of  their overall price change strategy increasing over 68% and 50% of their Toy prices respectively.

·         Debenhams was the only retailer that executed a 100% price decrease on all price adjustments

·         John Lewis, Asda and Argos had over 90% of thier respective price adjustments on Black Friday 2016 as price reductions.

·         There were 25,199 price changes on Cyber Monday of which 36.8% were price increases.

·         All toy assortment price adjustments by John Lewis and Toys R Us on Cyber Monday were price increases. 99.1% of all price adjustments made by Debenhams were price increases also.

·         Over 90% of price changes made by MotherCare, LittleW and Very on Cyber Monday were price reductions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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