As brick and mortar stores look for effective ways to digitize the customer experience and transform in-store operations, standards continue to shift in what has already become a competitive market shaped by increasingly demanding consumers and online disruption. This means retailers are focusing their strategies around transformational trends such as automation, Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things and advanced analytics in order to improve operational efficiency and customer engagement.
This aggregated data set provides the numerical context of these key trends within retail, including detailed revenue forecasts of brick and mortar and e-commerce retail growth. The report also provides forecasts on revenues and adoption rates for key retail technologies, including Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs), Bluetooth beacons, Point of Sale (POS) terminals, augmented and mixed reality, robotics and automated retail.