I own a retail tobacco shop and am about to go live with RMS. My question is related to the buydown feature within the pricing section of an item. In my industry it is common for the major manufacturers to run buydowns on products to facilitate discounting to the customers. Example as follows:
Product = Marlboro Carton
MY REGULAR COST = $30.00 MY REGULAR RETAIL = $32.00
MANUFACTURER FUNDED BUYDOWN = $5.00 > THEY NOW EXPECT MY RETAIL TO = $27.00
Problem for me is that when I lower my "Buydown" retail price, I show a loss.
I am currently using another POS product that lowers both the cost and the retail, keeping my cost/retail gap in place. Does anybody know of an add-in or method to fix this. Or better yet, if anybody out there is doing business with Philip Morris or R.J. Reynolds and has found an efficient method of dealing with this issue, PLEASE HELP!
Tim - Cigar Guy