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Retail-Tech Landscape: Supply Chain

Coresight September 4, 2019

In this report, we continue our Retail-Tech Landscape report series, which spotlights innovative retail-tech companies that are disrupting the retail industry. This retail-tech landscape covers innovation in the supply chain, featuring start-ups in addition to a few more established companies that are disrupting the current scenario.

Deep Dive

AI and Price Optimization in Retail

Coresight August 1, 2019

Pricing has become key in retail. Artificial intelligence and machine learning is giving retailers new tools to help fully and effectively implement price optimization strategies.

Insight Report

New Retail Briefing: Tmall Launches Offline Experiential Center to Connect Brands to Consumers

Coresight July 30, 2019

Alibaba’s flash sale and group buying platform Juhusuan introduced an updated version of Jutudi, an initiative to offer fresh farm produce at a lower price. Tmall launched an experiential center to invite brands to connect with customers offline.

Deep Dive

Reviewing Grocery Tech Innovations from Walmart and Kroger

Coresight June 24, 2019

The digitalization of grocery retailing is about much more than e-commerce. In the US, Walmart and Kroger are leading the charge in digital adoption across the grocery supply chain. In this report, we review a number of grocery tech innovations from these two retailers.

Insight Report

Israel Retail-Tech Innovator Landscape

Coresight May 31, 2019

Israel’s retail-tech sector is growing and quickly becoming one of the hottest and most innovative ecosystems for retail technologies, with startups offering solutions from supply chain logistics to the in-store experience.

Insight Report

Supply Chain Series: From Immersive Technologies to Robotics

Coresight May 23, 2019

Technologies including blockchain, AI and others are transforming the various stages in the retail supply chain, including product design, demand forecasting, manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, last-mile delivery and sales.

Insight Report

Digital Disrupts Consumer Packaged Goods

Coresight May 13, 2019

E-commerce has served as a growth impetus for CPG, enabling a more direct connection between brands and customers and giving brand owners greater control over the supply chain.

Deep Dive

Artificial Intelligence in Retail, Part 3: What Startups Are Doing with AI

Coresight March 15, 2019

This is the third report in a short series looking at artificial intelligence (AI) in retail. In this report, we explore what startups are doing with AI in the context of our proprietary CORE framework, which stands for Communication, Optimization of pricing, Rationalization of inventory and Experiential retail.

Deep Dive

Blockchain in Retail: Decentralizing the Digitalization of Retail Operations

Coresight March 8, 2019

Blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt retail as it can decentralize processes through which retailers interact with partners, industry players and consumers, making operations more efficient and secure. We looked into the implications for this technology

Event Coverage

Countdown to Shoptalk 2019: Startup Pitch Competition Participant Profile, Part 8 — DeepMagic

Coresight March 1, 2019

The Coresight Research team will attend and participate in Shoptalk 2019 March 3-6 in Las Vegas. The event brings together more than 8,000 attendees and more than 300 speakers to discuss rapid evolution of how consumers discover, shop and buy.

Event Coverage

Countdown to Shoptalk 2019: Startup Pitch Competition Participant Profile, Part 7 — LexSet and Mystore-E

Coresight February 27, 2019

Event Coverage

Countdown to Shoptalk 2019: Startup Pitch Competition Participant Profile, Part 6 — Cymbio and Spruce Labs

Coresight February 27, 2019

Event Coverage

Countdown to Shoptalk 2019: Startup Pitch Competition Participant Profile, Part 5 — ShoppingGives and Fillogic

Coresight February 26, 2019

Event Coverage

Countdown to Shoptalk 2019: Startup Pitch Competition Participants Profile, Part 4 — VisuWall and RetailDeep

Coresight February 25, 2019

Insight Report

New Retail Briefing #3: Walmart China Eyes Retail Innovation; A.S. Watson and Unilever Agree to New Retail Partnerships

Coresight February 12, 2019

Walmart China launched the Omega8 initiative in January 2019 to serve as a proof of concept (POC) platform that lets tech startups test newly designed technology applications in a real retail environment. Walmart reported over 50 startups signed up for the initiative. Walmart will train these companies in a variety of retail operation skills. Walmart said its existing 400 offline stores in China will act as testing grounds for startup technology before rolling out to mass market. This Omega8 initiative shows Walmart’s ambition of leveraging tech startups for its own digital innovation, and understanding of the Chinese market. Ben Hassing, Senior