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An enterprise-wide integrated computer system for storing, processing and reporting pricing information regarding a plurality of products in a plurality of stores in a plurality of markets, including a pricing function for pricing and re-pricing products responsive to market price changes. Pricing a

An enterprise-wide integrated computer system for storing, processing and reporting pricing information regarding a plurality of products in a plurality of stores in a plurality of markets, including a pricing function for pricing and re-pricing products responsive to market price changes. Pricing and re-pricing are accomplished on a product-by-product and a market-by-market basis.

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[ We claim:] [9.] An enterprise-wide integrated computer system for storing, processing and reporting pricing information regarding a plurality of products sold a seller in a plurality of stores in a plurality of markets, comprising:a central processing unit,a main memory, data storage means for sto

[ We claim:] [9.] An enterprise-wide integrated computer system for storing, processing and reporting pricing information regarding a plurality of products sold a seller in a plurality of stores in a plurality of markets, comprising:a central processing unit,a main memory, data storage means for storing in a database, product data concerning each product sold by the seller, said product data concerning each product including a product identification number, and pricing data, said pricing data including, for each product, an active price, a market code, and one or more competitor's prices;means for managing the database, including means for modifying, storing, retrieving and manipulating said product data;a plurality of applications programs including a pricing software program;said pricing program comprising means for processing pricing data including means for communicating with the central processing unit, memory and data storage means, means for changing pricing data at predetermined intervals on the basis of a price change frequency pattern, said means for changing pricing data including means for accessing pricing data in the database on a product-by-product basis and a market-by-market basis, for capturing and deleting expired pricing data and for capturing, modifying and processing said pricing data to provide updated pricing data according to predetermined rules and storing said updated pricing data;said predetermined rules including selection of said active price of the product, comparison of said active price of the product with a lowest competitor's price of said one or more competitor's prices; calculation of a new active price to be lower than the lowest competitor's price, creation of a cent-coded price by changing an ending cent in said new active price in accordance with a cent code corresponding to a profit margin on the product, comparison of the cent-coded price with the lowest competitors price, calculation of an updated active price lower than or equal to the lowest competitor's price, and storage of the updated active price.