We study the link between price points and price rigidity, using two datasets: weekly scanner data, and Internet data. We find that: 9 is the most frequent ending for the penny, dime, dollar and ten-dollar digits; the most common price changes are those that keep the price endings at 9; 9-ending...

We study the link between price points and price rigidity using two data sets: weekly scanner data and Internet data. We find that “9” is the most frequent ending for the penny, dime, dollar, and ten-dollar digits; the most common price changes are those that keep the price endings at...

We study the link between price points and price rigidity using two data sets: weekly scanner data and Internet data. We find that “9” is the most frequent ending for the penny, dime, dollar, and ten-dollar digits; the most common price changes are those that keep the price endings at...

Achieving effective business design across the Internet and the offline channel is a critical concern for a hybrid firm's choice of pricing strategy. To examine the effects of consumer channel migration - a form of one-way channel interaction from the traditional sales channel to the Internet -...

Price rigidity involves prices that do not change with the regularity predicted by standard economic theory, and is of long-standing interest to firms and industries, and relates to the economy as a whole. As information technology (IT) changes the processes by which strategic pricing decisions...

We study the link between price points and price rigidity, using two datasets - weekly scanner data and Internet data. We find that (i) 9 is the most frequently used price-ending for the penny, dime, dollar, and ten-dollar digits, (ii) the most common price changes are those that keep the price...

We offer new evidence on the link between price points and price rigidity using two datasets. One is a large weekly transaction price dataset, covering 29 product categories over an eight-year period from a large U.S. supermarket chain. The other is from the Internet, and includes daily prices...

We study the link between price points and price rigidity, using two datasets: weekly scanner data, and Internet data. We find that: “9” is the most frequent ending for the penny, dime, dollar and ten-dollar digits; the most common price changes are those that keep the price endings at...