Lidl Lets Customers Vote on Christmas Prices in Social Media ‘First’

Lidl UK has unveiled an ‘industry first’ social media initiative that allows customers to crowdsource the prices of select Christmas products.

presenting-the-lidl-social-price-drop-yt-lidl-uk-mp4-00_00_02_15-still002The Twitter-based strategy means the more customers tweet about a featured Lidl product, the lower its final price will be.

The Lidl ‘Social Price Drop’ will start with Christmas lobster, which has a starting price of £5.99. Customers will be able to potentially lower the lobster’s price by tweeting about it from 8am today (21 November) until 6pm tomorrow (22 November).

And every Wednesday in the run-up to Christmas the final prices of featured items will be revealed, with shoppers then able to take advantage of the reduced cost in-store the following Saturday. In-store ticketing will also highlight the ‘Social Price Drop’ promotion.

presenting-the-lidl-social-price-drop-yt-lidl-uk-mp4-00_00_32_19-still007“The Social Price Drop is a first for any supermarket in the UK, and we’re incredibly excited about giving our customers the power on Twitter to lower the price of some of our finest festive products,” says Georgina Hall, head of communications at Lidl UK.

“Christmas is a very expensive time of year for shoppers up and down the country and as a retailer at the heart of Britain’s communities, our ambition is to put the control back into the hands of consumers and save them even more in the run up to Christmas.”

Source: Marketing Week

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