Analytics

2021 Holiday Retail Forecasts and Predictions

Another holiday season is here and retailers still have a lot of uncertainty to contend with when crafting their holiday retail strategies. Here to help, RIS is arming retailers with our second annual guide to peak selling season.
Reimagining the In-Store Experience with the Customer at the Center

Today’s ever-connected shoppers’ expectations for more personalized service and near-instantaneous fulfillment have upended the retail ecosystem.

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Five Strategies for Becoming a Data-Driven Retailer

Optimize decision making with advanced analytics and AI/ML.
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OBSERVABILITY: Enhancing the Digital Customer Experience Using Real-Time Performance Monitoring

With end-to-end views of site performance, observability platforms allow leading retailers such as Smartbox, REI Group, Café Press, to understand system failures and their causes — before they impede the shopper’s journey.
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How Multi-Level Growth is Driven By a Single Source of Truth: Planning, Promotion, Pricing & Prediction

Discover how to bridge the gap and lay the groundwork for future acceleration as a data-driven intelligent enterprise from customer-focused merchandising to LifeCycle Pricing.
Why the Impending Death of Third-Party Data Isn’t All Bad

Retailers looking to get ahead of ongoing customer-first data privacy practices need to act now or risk causing disruptions to some of the most critical parts of their customers’ digital experiences.
JCPenney Sees Cart Abandonment Drop 18% With Predictive AI

After deploying predictive AI, JCPenney has seen extremely positive results from delivering real-time, targeted engagement.
PepsiCo Launching Pepviz Data Science Practice for Retailers

PepsiCo is launching its Pepviz insights framework to retailers, seeking data-sharing partners to develop the technology into customized solutions.
Inflation Fears Increase Demand for AI-Driven Prices & Promotions: How Retailers Can Deliver

Delivering exactly the right prices and promotions to engage price-sensitive and value-minded shoppers is more important than ever, and the prevalence of online price-checking means complete price transparency.
Walmart Partners With Meredith for High-Tech Meal Planning

Walmart has partnered to bring shoppers AI-powered meal planning, shoppable recipes, visual search, chatbots, and more. Uncover how Meredith’s predictive insights alongside Walmart’s API technology match products with consumers in real-time at scale.
RIS’ Annual Supply Chain Technology Study

RIS benchmarks the state of the retail supply chain, identifies technologies that are keys to success, and recommends ways retailers can build a supply chain of the future that ensures resiliency against the next major disruption.
Zebra Technologies to Acquire Antuit.ai

The acquisition is expected to accelerate Zebra’s Enterprise Asset Intelligence vision by expanding its growing retail and consumer packaged goods software portfolio.
Sephora Applies New AI Technology for Inclusive Color IQ Relaunch

RIS talks with Sephora about the AI tech developed in-house to help all its customers find their best foundation match, as part of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion commitments.
Optimal Demand Sensing, Shaping & Response: What's in Store When Retailers Fully Leverage AI/ML

Tech and automation will continue to play a big role in the transformation of retail with a relentless focus on supply chain design, localized assortments, anticipating consumer demand, shaping consumer purchases with pricing and promotions, and fulfilling demand across all channels in the most cost

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