Retail Trends

Forrester studied offline and online consumer shopping patterns and forecasted sales basis the impact of COVID-19 on the Asian Retail Market and the various factors regulating business. Learn the key market trends, impact of Covid-19 and opportunities for retailers in this complimentary on-demand webinar.

As lockdowns ease, retail stores traffic and sales will only increase gradually based on consumer comfort levels, bringing preexisting strategic objectives into sharper focus and accelerate the need to execute on them.

Learn several digital strategies that quick-service restaurants impacted by COVID-19 can adopt to position themselves for the long term.

To encourage customers to come back and usher in economic recovery, companies must plan to redesign their physical-location experiences to address customer fears of COVID-19 and their desire to maintain social distancing.

Forrester retail industry analysts provide insights on how privacy and data ethics regulations will affect retail marketers.

Forrester's updated retail forecast shows that brick-and-mortar, non-grocery retailers will experience the heaviest losses, and that growth in online sales won't offset offline losses.

Amazon Pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay; alternative payments are a hot topic. And they are key to seamless checkout experiences, especially while consumers shop on their smartphones. But which options are merchants offering? And which are consumers actually using? Forrester dove into 100 retailer sites to determine the state of alternative-payments acceptance in US online […]

For UK food retailers, coronavirus crisis has demonstrated the importance of flexible supply chain management. Read more, including potential solutions.

Looking for ways computer vision can automate retail and improve CX? Analysts Guannan Lu and Charlie Dai provide four examples.

To understand how Forrester’s predictions will unfold in the retail industry in 2020, my colleague Madeline Cyr and I interviewed experts within Forrester for our “Applying 2020 Predictions To Retail” series. To understand the internet of things (IoT) predictions for 2020, we spoke with Forrester IoT expert Frank Gillett. Madeline Cyr: In 2020, you predict […]

The single biggest transformation in the retail industry in the last decade has been the emergence of third-party marketplaces (often online bazaars subject to few restrictions) where sellers and buyers meet. Some sellers on online marketplaces, however, traffic in the business of outright fake products. Others may procure merchandise through legitimate channels but engage in […]

Customers believe they are engaging with one unified brand or organization, regardless of the device or touchpoints that they use. Retailers must ensure the continuity of information and resources across digital and store touchpoints — or risk losing customers to competitors that do. A truly omnichannel operation that spans the customer lifecycle will optimize revenue, […]

To understand how Forrester’s predictions will unfold in the retail industry in 2020, my colleague Madeline Cyr and I interviewed experts within Forrester for our “Applying 2020 Predictions To Retail” series. To understand the employee experience (EX) predictions for the year, we spoke with Forrester Principal Analyst David Johnson, who serves CIO professionals. Madeline: You […]

All brands must rapidly upgrade legacy technology systems and processes. And that is regardless of whether or not they sell directly to customers! Brands are facing an onslaught of greater demands externally (consumers and retail partners) and internally (to execute successful digital marketing campaigns and digital commerce strategies). As a result, brands are evaluating the […]

Fixed gender constructs have begun to erode. As perceptions evolve, so do the ways that brands market to consumers. In this week’s podcast episode, VP and Principal Analyst Dipanjan Chatterjee discusses how some leading companies have already shifted their approach and how other CMOs can get it right.

Principal Analyst Jim Nail and Senior Analyst Tina Moffett weigh in on what's ahead for retail marketers and how retail companies can position themselves for success.

To understand how Forrester’s predictions will unfold in the retail industry in 2020, my colleague Madeline Cyr and I interviewed experts within Forrester for our “Applying 2020 Predictions To Retail” series. To understand the customer predictions for the year, I spoke with Anjali Lai, a Forrester expert on CMO-targeted consumer behavior and decision-making research

The spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) is impacting everything from global stock market vacillations and travel to retail traffic and buying patterns. To help retailers manage, we’ve rounded up some of the best advice we are hearing about the retail customer experience and managing business operations.

“Headless commerce” is the ubiquitous, abstract description of the modern commerce suite. Technical folks talk about it as if it’s the new gold standard, and you’re probably wondering if you’re expected to change your entire commerce stack. There’s one not-so-small problem, though: “Headless” means something different depending on who you ask — and where you […]