The Scenario
A procurement analyst at an electronics reseller has an Excel workbook with 80 competitor SKUs in column A. The workbook is the centerpiece of a competitive pricing report going to the VP of Merchandising at 3 PM. It's 10 AM. Every SKU needs a current Best Buy sale price, regular price, product name, availability status, customer rating, and review count — columns B through G — before the analyst can run the margin comparison in columns H onward.
The bad version:
- Open bestbuy.com, search SKU 1, manually transcribe six fields into row 2
- Repeat 79 more times across a two-hour block
- Realize halfway through that prices already shifted since row 1
You don't have time for that.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your Excel workbook that reads the data and talks to Best Buy for you. No mapping, no automation, no copy-paste.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
For every SKU in column A of my Excel table, pull Best Buy product data and populate columns B–F with product name, current price, regular price, in-store availability, and average customer rating
What You Get
- Columns B through G populated for every SKU in column A — product name, current price, regular price, in-store availability, average rating, and review count
- Results written in the same row as the source SKU so your downstream margin formulas pick them up without re-alignment
- Any SKU that returns no Best Buy result leaves that row blank rather than breaking your formulas with an error string
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
When some SKUs in column A have trailing spaces or leading zeros stripped
For every SKU in column A of my Excel table, trim whitespace and pad with leading zeros to 7 digits before querying Best Buy, then write product name, sale price, regular price, availability, rating, and review count into columns B through G
When you also need to flag SKUs where Best Buy's price is lower than your internal price in column H
For every SKU in column A of my Excel workbook, fetch Best Buy product name, sale price, and regular price into columns B through D, then add TRUE or FALSE in column E indicating whether Best Buy's sale price is lower than the value in column H for that row
When you only want to pull data for SKUs where column B is currently blank
For each SKU in column A of my Excel table where column B is empty, fetch Best Buy product details and write product name, sale price, regular price, availability, rating, and review count into columns B through G — skip rows where column B already has a value
When you want it all in one shot
For every SKU in column A of my Excel workbook — trim and normalize each value first — fetch Best Buy product name, sale price, regular price, availability, rating, and review count into columns B through G, flag rows in column H where Best Buy's price beats the value in column I, and mark column J with MISSING for any SKU that returned no result.
The pattern: instead of cleaning the SKU list first and then querying Best Buy, you ask for both in one prompt.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook with a column of product SKUs. Ask it to pull Best Buy product details for each one. The Best Buy integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For related tasks, see Pull a Filtered Best Buy Category Listing Into an Excel workbook or the Best Buy in Excel overview.