All the mainstream press wants to say that stores are closing and stores don’t matter. But according to a recent study by IHL and RIS News of over 300 retail brands, stores will be involved in 86% of all order fulfillment in 2020 through traditional bricks and mortar retailers. Add […]
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When it comes to the deployment of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in retail and hospitality, the question is not if they are doing it, but where and how fast they are adopting the technology. Now a couple of things. First, as we shared in our free white paper AI/ML […]
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IHL researched over 300 North America Retail Brands as part of our Retail Competitive Leaders Study and asked them which of 30 top vendors they would be increasing their business with the most and by how much in 2020. The results were clear: the largest vendors are taking an even […]
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Location-based Analytics is the most widely adopted of emerging technologies among North American Retailers within 2 years, but it is not the fastest growing. More than any other time in the 17+ years we have been doing our annual study with RIS News, retailers are rapidly deploying emerging technologies at […]
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Smart retailers are re-investing in technology for their stores at a massive rate according to the latest research from IHL Group called “Rise of the Digital Store – How Digital Orders Are Transforming Store Operations” released today. Leading the way is the adoption of Microservices Architecture design which is expected to grow in […]
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Retail sales so far are up significantly for the holidays with Black Friday and Cyber Week sales breaking records. This is a replay of the webinar. Holiday Halftime Update. Click the photo to watch the replay. Download the webinar slides here. Like this post? Never miss an IHL Research Briefing […]
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Curious how the holiday shopping season is progressing? Wondering what you did right and what you could improve on? Wondering the key strategies your competitors are utilizing this holiday season? Would you like to know the most financially impactful customer journeys and the complexity level to implement support for them? […]
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You have the ads ready, the stores are staffed, the inventory has arrived and everything is in place for Black Friday. I have often said that early morning of Black Friday is now THE best time to shop and when you get the best service as a consumer. Why? Because stores […]
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When it comes to their customers, retailers are racing to implement technologies to track their customers wherever they shop, either at the stores or online. In our recent free personalizing the customer journey research paper we highlighted all the different ways that retailers plan to track you by the end […]
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Worldwide IT Spend for Business Intelligence is skyrocketing and this is certainly true in Asia, driven particularly by China, South Korea and Singapore. From video analytics to prescriptive analytics to traditional data lakes and data warehouses, the region is greatly benefiting from cloud-based solutions that are often not hindered by […]
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