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  <description>Plain-English guides to competitor tracking, pricing, promotions and the AI shelf, for e-commerce brands.</description>
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    <title>Competitor price monitoring: a practical guide for e-commerce brands</title>
    <link>https://ghostagentwatch.com/articles/competitor-price-monitoring/</link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Start here</category>
    <description>Who to track, which products to compare, what to collect beyond the price, how often to check, and how to turn it all into decisions instead of spreadsheets.</description>
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    <title>How to track competitor promotions, and build a promotion calendar</title>
    <link>https://ghostagentwatch.com/articles/competitor-promotions/</link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Prices and promotions</category>
    <description>Where competitors’ promotions show up, what to record about each one, and how a year of records becomes a calendar you can plan your own campaigns around.</description>
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    <title>A weekly competitor review in 30 minutes</title>
    <link>https://ghostagentwatch.com/articles/competitor-tracking-weekly-review/</link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Start here</category>
    <description>A simple agenda for a weekly meeting that turns competitor data into decisions: who should be there, what to look at, and how to record what you decided.</description>
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    <title>How AI shopping assistants choose which products to recommend</title>
    <link>https://ghostagentwatch.com/articles/how-ai-assistants-choose-products/</link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>The AI shelf</category>
    <description>What ChatGPT, Google, Perplexity and Microsoft say about how their shopping answers work, what that means for your products, and what you can and can’t influence.</description>
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    <title>Landed price vs list price: why the price on the page isn’t the price that wins</title>
    <link>https://ghostagentwatch.com/articles/landed-price/</link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Prices and promotions</category>
    <description>Customers compare what they’ll pay at checkout, not the number on the product page. What goes into a landed price, why most price tracking misses it, and how to compare fairly.</description>
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    <title>MAP policies explained: a guide for brands</title>
    <link>https://ghostagentwatch.com/articles/map-policy/</link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Brand protection</category>
    <description>What a minimum advertised price policy is, why brands use one, how the rules differ between the US, UK and EU, and how to monitor and enforce a policy fairly.</description>
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    <title>How to respond to a competitor’s price cut, without starting a price war</title>
    <link>https://ghostagentwatch.com/articles/respond-to-competitor-price-cut/</link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Prices and promotions</category>
    <description>Matching isn’t the only option. A four-question check for whether a price cut matters, six ways to respond, and how to choose between them.</description>
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    <title>How to measure your share of the AI shelf</title>
    <link>https://ghostagentwatch.com/articles/share-of-ai-shelf/</link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>The AI shelf</category>
    <description>A practical method for measuring how often AI shopping assistants recommend you: choosing the questions, asking them properly, scoring the answers and reading the trend.</description>
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