TYLER, Texas -- Brookshire Grocery Co. has selected PriceNet, PriceNet Mobile, and KSS Visualizer from KSS to help improve and simplify the fuel pricing process for more than 80 retail stores across Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi.
With PriceNet, PriceNet Mobile, and KSS Visualizer, Brookshire's stores will experience an improved process for gathering data that aids the pricing team in managing the fuels' pricing process more effectively and efficiently, said KSS.
Steve Wimberly, director of fuel operations at Brookshire's, said, "Utilizing KSS as a pricing tool will expand [image-nocss] our range with price optimization and allow us to reach new levels in today's highly competitive and volatile fuel market."
PriceNet is an end-to-end pricing solution supporting the key tasks and stakeholders involved in retail fuels pricing, from capturing field-based intelligence at the site level to the generation of price proposals via comprehensive pricing rules or price optimization to consistent, accurate and timely implementation. PriceNet Mobile is pricing in the palm of the user's hand. Users can enter competitor prices and receive new price proposals in seconds, sent directly to their mobile device for approval and implementation. KSS Visualizer is a web-based data visualization tool intended to quickly draw attention to significant changes in key performance measures such as volume, running rates, margins, competitor price position and more, at any level of the business from individual grade/store to overall network.
Tyler, Texas-based Brookshire Grocery operates more than 150 supermarkets under the Brookshire's Food Stores and Super 1 Foods banners in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. More than 80 of them offer fuel centers.
Florham Park, N.J.-based KSS is a major provider of pricing analytics, price management, rules-based pricing and optimization technology and services to fuel retailers and wholesalers in the oil and gas, convenience store, grocery and big box retail industries. KSS clients include global, national and regional companies managing a total of more than $100 billion in revenue through more than 20,000 fuel sites and rack terminals throughout the world.Members help make our journalism possible. Become a CSP member today and unlock exclusive benefits, including unlimited access to all of our content. Sign up here.