As the spirit of reinvention sweeps across the retail landscape, stores have emerged as proving grounds for technologies that blend the digital and brick-and-mortar worlds.

The value of analytics is not about data or technology or technologists or even insights. The value of analytics comes from asking the right questions.

Retailers have spent many years and millions of dollars building their on-premise tech stacks, something typically referred to as legacy technology. That's about to change.

When you are a $16-billion retailer such as The Gap you think long and hard before starting a heart-and-lungs transplant, which is what retailers often call replacing such core systems as merchandising and inventory management.

Why are we witnessing healthy retail growth and another big year for bankruptcies and store closings? Data from the 2018 RIS/Gartner Study uncovers an explanation and highlights the differences between retail winners and losers.