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What Is The Pricing Strategy Of Mydin

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MYDIN is one of the largest retail and wholesale organization in Malaysia with close to 90 outlets with consisting of hypermarkets, mini markets (MyMydin), convenience stores (MyMart), Bazaars and emporiums in the nationwide. It carries a broad range of goods ranging from food line, household, soft line and hard-line items. The Soft line products include cosmetics, textile, leather and various clothing whereas the hard-line products include hardware, electrical, stationery, porcelain and toys (Mydin, 2014). Besides that, “Mydin has been appointed as the operator for the Malaysian government-initiated Kedai Rakyat1Malaysia (KR1M) outlets in 2012 and open another 90 KR1M outlets for the year 2013 in the whole of Malaysia” (Ariz, 2013). In addition …show more content…

Mydin offers varieties of similar range products as their competitors where they are still able to undercut prices by reasonable percentages. Mydin’s pricing strategy is low price strategy where this strategy emphasizes on low price products as well as maintaining the quality of their products. It also focuses on reducing the cost from their operation to produce lower price products yet good quality. Besides that, Mydin used low price strategy to attract lower and medium income group in across Malaysia. Therefore, lower and medium income families are willing to purchase at lower price and high quality products at Mydin. Nevertheless, Mydin able to sustain its customers for long period of time and it will increase customer loyalty through their low price strategy. In addition, this low price strategy may attract small wholesalers and petty traders in getting cheaper supplies from Mydin. “It has also contributed to the business expansion and is reflected by an increase in number of wholesalers and petty traders who have registered as their frequent buyers (Armum, N.D)”. Furthermore, Mydin also emphasize in bulk buying and bulk selling to enjoy lower prices. Thus, Mydin selling in bulk enable to cut cost as well as sustains lower price for its wholesaler, bulk purchasers and end user. Therefore, Mydin was encouraging people to buy in bulk in order to save more. In addition, Mydin purchase raw materials in bulk in order to save more cost. “Mydin sources merchandise both locally and from other countries including Bangladesh, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia and some more” (Armum,

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