Maximize ROI with Retail Promotion Optimization
Make every promotion count. Turn weekly flyers into strategic levers for growth. ClearDemand’s promotion optimization solution delivers pricing forecasts, minimizes waste, and boosts ROI. Builds targeted, effective events while minimizing unnecessary discounts.
Promotion Optimization: Events that Resonate
Stop repeating last year’s promotions. Start optimizing.
Promotions are a retailer’s most powerful lever to drive volume, loyalty, and category lift — but without the right insights, it’s easy to overspend, underperform, or simply repeat what “sort of worked” last year.
ClearDemand’s retail promotion optimization solution helps you stretch dollars further, execute more strategic events, and get measurable results.
- Analyze historical promotional performance
- Suggest items and categories for future promotions
- Forecast sales lift by promotion type, depth, and timing
- Segment customers for targeted promotions
DATA-DRIVEN DECISIONS
- Reduce promotional waste and increase traffic-driving offers
- Incorporate cannibalization and affinity impacts
- Establish the best vendor deals and temporary price reductions
- Forecast impacts and lifts of overlapping promotions and events
“ClearDemand will enable us to better plan, manage and optimize our promotions so that we can continue to fulfill our promise to customers.”
Director Consumer Insights & Analytics
M&M Food Market“ClearDemand was the unanimous choice to deliver the pricing and promotions necessary for our growth and transformation.”
Chief Information Officer
Gelson’s“Partnering with ClearDemand has given us the tools needed to continuously evaluate and re-evaluate our pricing. It gives us a clear look at how our pricing and promotional strategy affects units, profits, and customer satisfaction.”
Director of Pricing
MOM’s Organic Markets“The best product matching for our data needs. This data, which includes internal and external data sources, has significantly improved our ability to track the omnichannel competitive landscape.”
Market Insights Manager
MARS PetcareSmarter Promotions, Stronger Results
From store-level forecasts to post-event analytics, ClearDemand helps grocers plan with confidence and improve ROI with every offer.
Run Effective Deals
Optimize your promotional calendar around the right products, categories, and holiday moments and make the most of CPG trade funds and internal budgets by modeling deal structures and timing for maximum return.
Build Bigger Baskets
Identify high-affinity items that lift entire trips & eliminate promotions that fail to increase sales. It’s time to focus on the promotions that create business impact.
Eliminate Waste
Avoid overstocks, stockouts, and lost margin from poor predictions. Plus identify which offers (BOGO, %, loyalty) will drive both lift and ROI.
Complete Promotion Optimization Solution
FORECAST IMPACT
- Predict lift, units, revenue, and margin at the store level and per promotion day
- Account for local demand variability and execution timing
WHAT-IF ANALYSIS
- Compare BOGO vs. %‑off vs. fixed price
- Analyze timing (weekend vs. weeklong), depth, and item grouping
- Understand impact before choosing a promotion
POST-EVENT ANALYSIS
- Measure actual vs. forecasted lift, units, and margin
- Understand promo effectiveness, cannibalization, and halo effect
- Support continuous learning across campaigns
Personalized Pricing: Optimizing Regular and Promotions Together
In this webinar, we present the benefits of personalized pricing and explore how to achieve those benefits through promotions, customer segmentation, and dynamic pricing.
Deep dive into the new innovations in pricing in promotion science – including jointly optimizing pricing and promotions.
Price Optimization
Set the perfect price every time to drive profitability and loyalty
- Forecast sales, margins, and expected results with accuracy
- Incorporate KVIs and category targets into pricing decisions
- Ensure rule adherence while balancing compliance costs
Competitive Intelligence
Empower promotional decisions with complete intelligence
- Receive accurate data from hard-to-access sites and hard-to-match categories
- Gain a 360-degree view of competitor pricing, promotion, availability, and assortment data
- Identify competitive gaps and capitalize on opportunities
Markdown Optimization
Efficiently clear inventory while protecting margins
- Optimize timing and depth of clearance items
- Reduce waste and maximize profits on expiring items
- Balance profit and sell-through to clear inventory efficiently
Smarter Promotions, Bigger Results
Stop leaving promotional results to chance! Eliminate wasteful promotions that don’t drive sales and focus on strategies that maximize impact.
Saved in inventory write-offs across categories
Increase In Sales Based On Product Popularity And Category
Reduction in cleansing and auditing time
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