Pricing Intelligence Blog

Insights for smarter pricing

Expert analysis on e-commerce pricing strategies, market trends, and competitive intelligence in the MENA region.

June 30, 2026

Competitor Price Tracking on Zid: Why Building Your Own Hits a Wall

The competitor-price tools don't integrate with Zid, so the default is to build a scraper. But the scraping was never the hard part — updati...

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June 30, 2026

How to Scrape Competitor Prices: DIY Tools, Trade-offs, and When to Buy Instead

Scraping a price is easy. Keeping thousands of products matched to the right competitor, every day, is the hard part. A practical guide to t...

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June 20, 2026

How MENA E-commerce Stores Quietly Bleed Margin — and How to Stop Reactive Pricing

Your bestseller, priced 14% below you for three weeks — and you never noticed. That's the quiet cost of reactive pricing, and how MENA store...

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December 3, 2025

White Friday Was the Rehearsal. Here's Your Playbook for the Holiday Sales.

The dust has settled on White Friday. The last of the parcels are with the couriers, and for the first time in weeks, e-commerce owners are ...

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September 30, 2025

The UAE E-commerce Gold Rush: How to Win on Price Without Losing Your Profits

The energy in the UAE's business landscape is undeniable. New residents are arriving, ambitious entrepreneurs are launching stores, and the ...

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July 31, 2025

The Strategic Pricing Framework Every E-commerce Store Needs

When you're setting prices for your e-commerce store, you probably lean on one of two popular methods. The first is "cost-plus" pricing: you...

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July 10, 2025

The End of the 80% Off Sale: A Smarter Playbook for Seasonal Fashion

It's a feeling every fashion e-commerce owner in the MENA region knows intimately. The calendar flips, the first hint of a new season is in ...

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July 10, 2025

From Perishable to Profitable: The E-commerce Playbook for Zero Waste

For any e-commerce business selling fresh food, baked goods, or other perishables, the storeroom is a place of constant tension. It's the da...

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June 24, 2025

Price Wars in MENA E-commerce: How to Win Without Racing to the Bottom

It's a feeling every e-commerce owner knows. Your heart sinks a little as you check a competitor's website. They've done it. They've dropped...

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June 16, 2025

Beyond the Ramadan Rush: How Perfume Prices Really Moved During Eid al-Adha

A few months ago, after the Suhoor and Iftar gatherings ended, we published a post analyzing the pricing landscape of Ramadan 2025. We revea...

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April 14, 2025

Beyond Discounts: What Really Happened to MENA E-commerce Prices During Ramadan 2025

As an e-commerce store owner in the MENA region, you know that Ramadan transforms not just consumer behaviour, but the entire market landsca...

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January 19, 2025

Press Release: Sampo Secures a $750,000 Pre-Seed Investment Round

Sampo AI, a pioneering startup specializing in dynamic pricing solutions for e-commerce, has announced the successful closure of its pre-see...

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