PricingStrategies幻灯片.pptVIP

* * Note to Instructor The text gives an excellent example of IKEA in China: When IKEA first opened stores in China in 2002, people crowded to take advantage of the freebies—air conditioning, clean toilets, and even decorating ideas. Chinese consumers are famously frugal. When it came time to actually buy, they shopped instead at local stores just down the street that offered knockoffs of IKEA’s designs at a fraction of the price. So IKEA slashed its prices in China to the lowest in the world. The penetration pricing strategy worked. IKEA now captures a 43 percent market share of China’s f