Increase in Retail IT Spend In the last two years we have seen a once-in-a-generation increase in retail IT spend. During the pandemic, certain trends went on steroids. The most striking change was that consumers were forced to purchase almost everything online. And in a 3-month period, we saw the […]
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Post Pandemic Consumer Behavior Worldwide Without question, the COVID pandemic has caused new consumer behavior worldwide. Some of the changes have abated, others have further accelerated. IHL Group completed a worldwide study of consumers in 21 different countries to understand what shopping behaviors have changed for good, which are fading […]
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Retail is experiencing a once-in-a-generation increase in IT spend due to the impacts of COVID and the change in shopping journeys for consumers. Although consumers have come back to stores, the digital increase is here to stay. Retailers must get these transactions profitable. Add to this the ongoing labor challenges […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a once in a generation increase in the percentage of revenue that retailers spend on IT. Where retailers had already been increasing IT spend over the past decade, from 2019 to 2022 that percentage of revenue has jumped a full percentage point as retailers were […]
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There are many criteria that have separated the winners since the beginning of the pandemic, but there is one technology that winning retailers are rolling out in 2021 at a rate nearly 9.5x the rate of others. You would think it is a new technology like AI/ML or something specifically […]
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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 […]
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