Analyst Corner

Category: Business Intelligence

Retail Gets Religion on Returns

Thursday March 30th, 11 a.m. Eastern

Retailers Running Out of Time to Optimize Digital Journeys

by Greg Buzek on 3/30/22

For the last 12 months, US retailers have been riding the gravy train (24 months for grocery and mass merchants). Sales growth has been in the high double-digits in many sectors thanks to strong comparisons to early COVID months the year before, multiple rounds of government stimulus and consumers that […]

COVID-19’s $11.5b Impact on IT Spend

by Jerry Sheldon on 8/5/20

Worldwide, COVID-19 is having disastrous impacts on consumer spending. IHL’s current forecast for consumer spending is a reduction of $1.6t in sales worldwide, just under 10%. And it is the smaller retailers losing the most by far. But not all segments are doing poorly. While Specialty Stores and Departments Stores […]