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...
Expert analysis on e-commerce pricing strategies, market trends, and competitive intelligence in the MENA region.
No price-monitoring tool connects to Salla, so most merchants end up scraping competitors themselves — and then repricing by hand, one product at a time. Why that's the real trap, and what the loop should look like instead.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
The energy in the UAE's business landscape is undeniable. New residents are arriving, ambitious entrepreneurs are launching stores, and the ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
A few months ago, after the Suhoor and Iftar gatherings ended, we published a post analyzing the pricing landscape of Ramadan 2025. We revea...
As an e-commerce store owner in the MENA region, you know that Ramadan transforms not just consumer behaviour, but the entire market landsca...
Sampo AI, a pioneering startup specializing in dynamic pricing solutions for e-commerce, has announced the successful closure of its pre-see...