Category: Retailing
Retailing market research reports by IDC
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Retail Reinvention in the Age of AI Everywhere: From Omni-Channel to Future-Forward, Autonomous, and Resilient
Retail Reinvention in the Age of AI Everywhere: From Omni-Channel to Future-Forward, Autonomous, and Resilient This IDC Perspective documents the journey retailers have made from omni-channel beginning in 2009 through digital transformation, AI, and mobile everywhere to the current pivot to AI/gen ... Read More
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Benetton Group's Journey Toward a Holistic Approach to Customer Experience
Benetton Group's Journey Toward a Holistic Approach to Customer Experience This IDC Perspective delves into Benetton Group's transformative journey in customer experience, highlighting its shift toward an omni-channel, seamless interaction model for customers and employees through POS technology har ... Read More
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Industry Alliances and Tech Innovations: Highlights From Shoptalk Europe 2024
Industry Alliances and Tech Innovations: Highlights From Shoptalk Europe 2024 This IDC Perspective provides IDC Retail Insights' key takeaways from Shoptalk Europe 2024, held in Barcelona, which gathered over 10,000 retail professionals to explore the future of retail. The event emphasized the criti ... Read More
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Mission Critical: Securing Omni-Channel Retail from Supply Chain to Cyberspace and Everything in Between
Mission Critical: Securing Omni-Channel Retail from Supply Chain to Cyberspace and Everything in Between This IDC Perspective discusses the NRF Protect 2024 conference held in June, which highlighted escalating retail security threats from growing loss and fraud threats to supply chain vulnerabiliti ... Read More
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Roku Exchange Unlocks Access to Roku's Audience and Premium Media
Roku Exchange Unlocks Access to Roku's Audience and Premium Media This IDC Market Note discusses Roku Exchange, a new advertising technology solution designed for TV streaming. This document also discusses the range of benefits that it offers media companies and brands and advertising agencies. As p ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Hyper-Personalized Loyalty in Hospitality and Travel
IDC PlanScape: Hyper-Personalized Loyalty in Hospitality and Travel This IDC PlanScape addresses how loyalty solutions must hinge upon hyper-personalization, leveraging omni-channel strategies along with guest data platforms, real-time analytics, and AI to ensure that every opportunity for guest en ... Read More
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Top Retail Generative AI Use Cases
Top Retail Generative AI Use Cases This IDC Perspective discusses the top retail generative AI (GenAI) use cases. Over 63.8% of retailers are investing in generative AI, focusing on use cases like natural language understanding and content generation despite facing challenges such as IT complexity a ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Analysis of Computer Vision Implementation in Automated and Self-Checkout Stores
IDC PlanScape: Analysis of Computer Vision Implementation in Automated and Self-Checkout Stores This IDC PlanScape report highlights the transformative impact of computer vision technology on the retail sector in Asia/Pacific, particularly in enhancing automated and self-checkout stores. It undersco ... Read More
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SugarCRM Expands Revenue Intelligence Capabilities With sales-i Acquisition
SugarCRM Expands Revenue Intelligence Capabilities With sales-i Acquisition This IDC Market Note analyzes SugarCRM's recent acquisition of sales-i. The acquisition focuses on integrating AI-enabled sales intelligence with sales automation, aimed at enabling manufacturers to capitalize on new revenue ... Read More
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The Shoptalk Bridge for Retail Technology 2024
The Shoptalk Bridge for Retail Technology 2024 This IDC Market Note discusses the Shoptalk 2024 event held in Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, and the key takeaways from the event. The primary Shoptalk event each year drives tens of thousands of retailers, vendors, and adjacent professionals to a specific l ... Read More
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Expanding Marketing Promotions Across the "4-O Matrix"
Expanding Marketing Promotions Across the "4-O Matrix" This IDC Market Perspective discusses the necessity for marketers, especially in the B2B and SMB sectors, to evolve beyond traditional email-centric strategies by adopting the 4-O marketing matrix. While the traditional 4 Ps of marketing have lo ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Peer Insights to Adopt Experience-Orchestrated Applications
IDC PeerScape: Peer Insights to Adopt Experience-Orchestrated Applications This IDC PeerScape describes three practices to help organizations address these challenges, accelerating adoption and improving value realization for X-O applications."X-O applications can deliver a seamless experience, even ... Read More
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Gender Parity, AI, and Empathetic Commerce: VTEX DAY 2024
Gender Parity, AI, and Empathetic Commerce: VTEX DAY 2024 This IDC Market Note discusses highlights of VTEX DAY 2024.VTEX DAY 2024 served as a springboard for a critical discussion — the future of leadership in a rapidly evolving tech landscape. While the event showcased advancements in AI and omni- ... Read More
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NRF 2024 Big Show: Top 5 Retail Supply Chain Takeaways
NRF 2024 Big Show: Top 5 Retail Supply Chain Takeaways This IDC Perspective distills five key supply chain takeaways from the NRF 2024 Big Show, reflecting the retail industry's current priorities and innovations. These focus on:ReturnsProduct life-cycle managementTracking and tracingVisibility acro ... Read More
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ETP Group Launches ETP Unify to Expand the Potential of Retail Enterprises with Its Unified Commerce Platform
ETP Group Launches ETP Unify to Expand the Potential of Retail Enterprises with Its Unified Commerce Platform This IDC Market Note discusses the launch of ETP Unify, a unified commerce platform for retailers, which combines retail and ecommerce capabilities. It highlights the challenges faced by ret ... Read More
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IDC Perspective: NRF's Big Show 2024 Confirms Continued Investments in Stores to Inspire and Fulfill Consumer Needs
IDC Perspective: NRF's Big Show 2024 Confirms Continued Investments in Stores to Inspire and Fulfill Consumer Needs This IDC Perspective discusses the key trends and advancements in retail technology identified at NRF's Big Show 2024. It highlights the increasing approachability of store digitizatio ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices for Real-Time Tracking and Traceability in Business-To-Business Supply Chains
IDC PeerScape: Practices for Real-Time Tracking and Traceability in Business-To-Business Supply Chains This IDC PeerScape examines the role of Internet of Things (IoT) and real-time tracking technologies in refining supply chain management (SCM), highlighting their application from intralogistics to ... Read More
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Operations Priorities in Transportation and Logistics
Operations Priorities in Transportation and Logistics This IDC Market Perspective examines operations priorities in the transportation and logistics industry. "Although not new, the importance of operational efficiency in transportation and logistics may be at an all-time high, driven by inflationar ... Read More
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Retail Digital Infrastructure, Security, and Loss Prevention: Hot Topics and Tech Trends from NRF 2024
Retail Digital Infrastructure, Security, and Loss Prevention: Hot Topics and Tech Trends from NRF 2024 This IDC Perspective highlights the key takeaways from the National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show 2024 focused on the strategic importance of modernized digital infrastructure technologies in ov ... Read More
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Planning Smartness: AI in Retail Scenario Planning
Planning Smartness: AI in Retail Scenario Planning This IDC Perspective discusses the importance and benefits of "what-if" scenario planning in retail with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI)."The value of scenario planning challenges existing models and the status quo. In retail, AI all ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices to Optimize Inventory Across Omni-Channel Retail
IDC PeerScape: Practices to Optimize Inventory Across Omni-Channel Retail This IDC PeerScape is one of a two-part series that aims to home in on specific practices retailers can enable through improved processes and technology to improve customer experience, profitability, and sustainability outcom ... Read More
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Digital Payments in Retail: Streamlining the Omni-Channel Customer Journey
Digital Payments in Retail: Streamlining the Omni-Channel Customer Journey This IDC Perspective explores the transformative impact of digital payment methods on the retail landscape, delving into the widespread adoption of existing and emerging technologies, their implications for consumer behavior, ... Read More
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Retail Is a Tech Lighthouse: Views from NRF 2024
Retail Is a Tech Lighthouse: Views from NRF 2024 This IDC Perspective discusses the National Retail Federation's (NRF's) Big Show and Expo 2024, emphasizing the significant role of technology in digitizing and automating retail business to keep pace with consumers' omni-channel shopping needs. The N ... Read More
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POS and Payments: Hot Topics and Tech Trends from NRF 2024
POS and Payments: Hot Topics and Tech Trends from NRF 2024 This IDC Perspective highlights the key takeaways from the National Retail Federation (NRF) 2024: Retail's Big Show focused on the strategic importance of new point-of-sale (POS) and payment offerings in enhancing omni-channel customer exper ... Read More
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Back to the Future: The B2C Digital Commerce Platform Renaissance
Back to the Future: The B2C Digital Commerce Platform Renaissance This IDC Perspective delves into the dynamic evolution of digital commerce, highlighting the transition from monolithic platforms to today's highly extensible, modular SaaS solutions. The discussion underscores the significance of se ... Read More
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