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Event Coverage | June 24, 2025 Premium

Shaping What’s Next in Retail—Physical Retail, AI, Retail Media: Insights from NextGen 2025, a Coresight Research Conference

NextGen 2025: Retail, Real Estate & the New Consumer brought together a curated mix of leaders and innovators to dive into the shifts reshaping how we build, operate and connect. This comprehensive report presents critical insights and takeaways from the conference, spanning five key themes. Discover how AI (artificial intelligence), retail media and design are redefining commerce—from the store to the supply chain.

Event Coverage | June 23, 2025 Free Report

NextGen 2025: Retail, Real Estate & the New Consumer—Agenda

NextGen 2025: Retail, Real Estate + the New Consumer will bring together a curated mix of leaders and innovators to dive into the shifts reshaping how we build, operate and connect. Dive into the full agenda, which puts a sharp focus on AI (artificial intelligence), the evolving consumer and the spaces where commerce comes to life.

Deep Dive | June 23, 2025 Premium

Transforming Beauty Retail: AI Across the Value Chain, from Innovation to Personalization

AI (artificial intelligence) is transforming the beauty industry, reshaping product innovation, manufacturing, marketing strategies and loyalty building. We delineate the “B.E.A.U.T.Y.” of AI’s value and use cases in the beauty market, from building new products to providing better consumer experiences. Discover the technology’s key benefits, spanning personalization, cost efficiency and sustainability.

Deep Dive | June 17, 2025 Free Report

The State of In-Store Retailing 2025: The Dawn of New-Age Stores, Powered by Technology

Store intelligence technologies offer transformative potential to optimize brick-and-mortar retail operations. Dive into our survey-driven insights on how to tackle inefficiencies and protect margins. This is our second annual study diving into the state of in-store retailing, offering year-over-year data comparisons. This report is produced and made available to non-subscribers of Coresight Research in partnership with Simbe.

Analyst Corner | June 8, 2025

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Analyst Corner: From Models to Markets—The Accelerating Shift Toward AI Applications, with Charlie Poon

In this week’s Analyst Corner, Charlie Poon, Analyst, discusses recent AI (artificial intelligence)-focused developments and events—including Amazon’s AWS Summit and Google I/O—that point to a shift in focus from hardware to applications in the world of AI.

Event Presentation | June 4, 2025 Premium

The Agentic AI Playbook: Insights Presented by Deborah Weinswig at NRF 2025: Retail’s Big Show APAC

Where are we in the AI revolution? How should your business approach the launch of AI agents? Uncover the answers to these questions and explore the agentic AI opportunity with this presentation, delivered by Deborah Weinswig, CEO and Founder of Coresight Research, at NRF 2025: Retail’s Big Show APAC.

Infographic | June 4, 2025 Premium

The STORE Framework for Driving Innovation in Retail

The Coresight Research STORE Framework is a tool for retail companies to identify and implement innovation in their enterprise. The framework helps guide decision-making in the adoption of next-generation technologies, from recognizing the opportunity to considering risks, resilience and ethics.

Deep Dive | June 3, 2025 Free Report

The Agentic AI Playbook: How to Redefine Retail with Intelligent Autonomy

Agentic AI (artificial intelligence) offers new, unparalleled capabilities for enterprises to transform their operations. Why should your organization be an early adopter of agentic AI, and what must you consider to deploy the technology successfully? Leveraging the Coresight Research STORE Framework for driving innovation in retail, this Playbook provides a comprehensive guide to implementing and seizing the benefits of agentic AI. This report is made available to non-subscribers of Coresight Research through its sponsorship by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Event Presentation | June 2, 2025 Premium

Recent Conference Insights, from World Retail Congress to ICSC Las Vegas: Coresight Research Premium Subscriber Call, June 2025

Dive into our insights from May 2025 retail events: World Retail Congress, ICSC Las Vegas and AAFA Global Supply Chain and Trade Conference. From the evolving tariff landscape and sustainability tensions to the rise of AI (artificial intelligence) in supply chains and real estate, explore the seismic shifts shaping 2025 and beyond. This presentation accompanies the on-demand webinar replay of the Coresight Research Premium Subscriber Call held on June 2, 2025.

Insight Report | May 20, 2025 Premium

AI Insights: Instacart CEO Fidji Simo To Join OpenAI as CEO of Applications

OpenAI announced on May 7, 2025, that Fidji Simo, the current CEO and Chair of Instacart, will join OpenAI later this year as CEO of Applications. We discuss the implications of this move for the company and for the AI (artificial intelligence) race in general.

Insight Report | May 19, 2025 Premium

RetailTech: Three Technologies Landlords Can Use to Take Malls to the Next Level

From smarter foot-traffic insights to real-time building optimization and lease management, a new generation of technologies is reshaping what’s possible for mall operators. We explore how landlords can transform shopping centers into data-powered environments that are more efficient, intelligent and profitable.

Deep Dive | May 16, 2025 Premium

RetailTech: Empowering Retail’s Front Line, Creating Smarter Stores—Five Tech-Driven Strategies for Associate Enablement

Empowering in-store associates with technology not only improves productivity and employee experiences but also translates to more positive, repeat customer interactions. In this RetailTech report, we present five key strategies for retailers to leverage associate enablement technology to realize these gains and, ultimately, drive revenue.

Event Coverage | May 15, 2025 Premium

AI Agents Power Cognitive Supply Chains: Insights from Blue Yonder ICON 2025 Conference

We offer highlights from Blue Yonder’s ICON 2025 conference, with insights spanning agentic AI (artificial intelligence), “Cognitive Solutions,” planogram management, returns and environmental sustainability.

Deep Dive | May 13, 2025 Free Report

Five Ways Brands and Retailers Can Use AI/ML and Shared Data to Energize End-to-End Product Management

Product management plays a crucial role in driving revenues, margins, efficiency and customer satisfaction. Technologies such as AI (artificial intelligence), ML (machine learning) and GenAI (generative AI) offer powerful capabilities for retail companies to enhance key functions through the product lifecycle, from product development to customer interaction. This research report is produced and made available to non-subscribers in partnership with Centric Software.

Analyst Corner | May 11, 2025

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Analyst Corner: Three Themes Transforming US Apparel and Footwear Retail in 2025, with Anand Kumar

In this week’s Analyst Corner, Anand Kumar, Managing Director of Retail Research, discusses three key themes transforming US apparel and footwear retailing in 2025 and beyond.