Pricing Strategy Consultant for Retail & Consumer Brands

Starlight is the pricing strategy consultant retail, ecommerce, and D2C brands bring in when a price decision is too big to get wrong.

We combine market trends, competitor pricing, price sensitivity from your own sales and customer file, and consumer willingness to pay into one clear recommendation, then help your team put it in market.

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Raise Prices Without Losing the Customers You Worked to Win

Costs keep climbing, from tariffs to freight, and someone has to decide how much to pass on.

We show you which products and categories can carry an increase, by how much, and which ones you might want to protect, so a price move doesn't turn into a traffic and customer problem.

A bowl of customer dots climbing a staircase step by step without spilling, showing price increases that keep customers.

Break the Promo and Markdown Habit

When every week has a sale, customers learn to wait. Full-price sell-through drops and margin goes with it.

We find which promotions actually drive incremental sales and which just give away margin. Then we help you build promo and discount rules your team will stick to.

A calendar that goes from a sale every week to mostly full-price weeks with one planned sale.

Build a Price Architecture Shoppers Can Understand Immediately

A customer should be able to tell why one product costs more than another without thinking about it.

We design good-better-best tiers, price gaps, and bundles around what your customers value most, so trading up feels like the obvious choice.

A jumble of mismatched blocks snapping into three clear price tiers: good, better, and best.

End the Internal Pricing Debate With Evidence

Finance wants margin. Merchants want sell-through. Marketing wants to protect the brand. Everyone has a point but nobody has the data to settle it.

As an outside pricing strategy consultant, we bring market, competitor, and customer evidence to the table, plus a recommendation leadership and the board can sign off on.

A balance scale weighing facts against feelings, tipping toward facts while opinion bubbles float up on the lighter side.

Why Retail Brands Choose Starlight as Their Pricing Strategy Consultant

The big pricing firms split their attention across chemicals, software, healthcare, and banking. Retail is all we do, so there's no learning curve on how promos, marketplaces, and seasonal assortments shape what your customers will pay.

We've also sat in your seat. 20+ years leading customers insights, strategy, loyalty, and marketing technology at some of the world's biggest retail brands means our advice comes with an operator's sense of what will actually work in stores, on site, and in the P&L.

Other firms spread across software, chemicals, healthcare, industrial, and retail, while Starlight focuses only on retail, ecommerce, and D2C.

See Why Clients Love Working With Starlight

Marketing, merchandising, and finance leaders bring us in when they need a pricing call they can stand behind.

Clients tell us they value how quickly we learn their business, how closely we work alongside their teams, and how clearly we turn complex data into next steps.

Greenbook Directory “Recommended by Clients” badges for 2024, 2025, and 2026, with a quote from Lisa Pilette, CMO of Fossil, on the “aha” moment Starlight delivered in six weeks.

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