Research and Reports

Beyond the Hype: How AI is Reshaping Retail & CPG Marketing
Learn how leading brands like Coca-Cola, Amazon, Colgate-Palmolive, Wayfair, Albertsons, and more are trailblazing new path through the innovative use of generative AI, and gain an understanding of the broader opportunities and challenges of AI in marketing.
Curbing Cash Leakage to Save Millions in Supplier Overpayments
A major US retailer, renowned for its chain of hypermarkets and department stores, sought to revamp its post-payment audit program. The goal? To maximize lost revenue recovery and minimize future leakages.
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Analytics
5 Tenets of a Successful Data Products Strategy
Integrated data and analytics have been a top investment priority for many years—a trend that has only been accelerated by flexible, agile, scalable cloud platforms and new analytic capabilities that did not exist in the on-premise environment.
Research
2023 Retail and Consumer Goods Analytics Study: The Analytics Advantage
RIS and CGT’s annual Retail and Consumer Good Analytics Study benchmarks the two industries’ analytic maturity and highlights the big bets being made on next-gen technology to ensure organizations keep pace with the business leaders. Find out where your company ranks among the industry’s best.
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Workforce Management
Transforming Retail: Innovative and Intelligent Approaches to Workforce Management
In this exclusive Q&A, Legion’s chief customer officer, Michael Spataro, outlines how evolving technologies are transforming workforce management, enabling retailers to make smarter, data-driven decisions and take strides toward their greater business goals.
Research and Reports
How Walmart, Home Depot, and Schnucks Are Changing the Workforce Tech Conversation
In this roadmap report, discover how retailers like Walmart, Schnucks, and The Home Depot are using technology to strategize in the war for retail talent – and winning.
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Research and Reports
Preparing Your Retail Enterprise for Unified Commerce
Successfully implementing Unified Commerce takes more than just understanding technology. In Aptos’ new guide, we walk you through what each of your departments needs to do to prepare for the move—everything from Store Ops, to Omni Operations to Marketing.
Workforce Management
Implementing Innovative Workforce Management Strategies to Attract and Retain Frontline Staff
In this Q&A, Purna Mishra, founder and CEO at Logile, explores effective workforce management strategies and solutions that today’s retailers can leverage to attract, engage, and retain associates while also improving store operations and customer service.
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White Papers
Overturning Turnover in Retail
Constant turnover of retail employees wastes time and money in the short and long term. This exclusive report describes how integrating data can help you understand, motivate and retain your team.
Special Reports
Managing Talent: Win-Win Workforce Management Strategies for the Retail Frontline
In this interactive report, RIS explores how retailers' strategic workforce technology investments are holding up amidst ongoing economic pressures and labor shortages, laying out a roadmap for future priorities and areas of opportunity.
Research and Reports
33rd Annual Retail Technology Study
Benchmark your organization’s tech maturity against more than 80 distinct retail solutions. Discover where your peers are making significant tech investments and what you need to do to keep pace.
Research and Reports
Store Experience Study 2023: Remodeling Retail
The annual “Store Experience Study” represents the 20th year of collaboration between RIS News and IHL Group. Benchmark your store technology stack against your peers and discover the retail industry’s tech investment plans for today and into the future.
Special Reports
Best of NRF 2023: Top 10 Takeaways
As the name implies, the NRF Big Show is mammoth. Three short days is never enough to see everything.
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Digital Commerce
Grow Ecommerce Profits—not just Conversions
AI supports best-in-class ecommerce experiences, boosting conversions and profits.

A collection of featured retail research and reports, including infographics, RIS Roadmaps, Technology Solutions Guides, Special Reports, Benchmark Research, Targeted Research, whitepapers, and more.