Charlie Poon, Analyst

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Deep Dive | December 8, 2025 Premium

Agentic Commerce—How Should Retailers Leverage GEO to Maximize AI-Engine Visibility?

This report delves into the shift from traditional SEO to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and its impact on retail. As AI shopping agents and agentic commerce gain prominence, learn how to adapt and ensure visibility in the new AI-driven shopping era.

Deep Dive | November 19, 2025 Premium

Five Ways AI Is Being Used in Luxury Retailing—and What’s Next

As part of our Five Ways AI Is Being Used… series, this report explores how AI in luxury retail is reshaping design, marketing and customer experience. Discover key trends and insights driving innovation in luxury retail.

Deep Dive | November 10, 2025 Premium

Agentic Commerce: How Retailers Can Employ OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol To Unleash a True AI Shopping Agent

Discover how to enable Instant Checkout in ChatGPT with Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) and what it means for retailers.

Deep Dive | November 4, 2025 Free Report

Playbook: GenAI to Agentic AI—From Pilot to Powerhouse

Agentic Commerce in CORE 3.0—AI agents are transforming retail ecosystems, from personalization to supply chains and C2M models.

Insight Report | October 27, 2025 Premium

Agentic Commerce: How Retailers Can Make Their Products Discoverable and Shoppable for 800 Million ChatGPT Users

Learn how retailers can use agentic commerce to make products shoppable on ChatGPT, tapping into AI-powered discovery and Instant Checkout.

Deep Dive | October 6, 2025 Premium

Playbook: GenAI To Reinvent Supply Chains

Reinvent retail supply chains with generative AI—explore strategies, technologies, risks, and ethics shaping the future of GenAI in supply chain.

Analyst Corner | October 5, 2025

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Analyst Corner: Big Tech’s AI Application and Computing-Power Arms Race, with Charlie Poon

In this week’s Analyst Corner, Charlie Poon, Analyst, explores current investments in the artificial intelligence (AI) and GenAI (generative AI) spaces, as well as investments in the computing requirements for AI-powered applications.

Insight Report | August 27, 2025 Premium

CEO Brief: Agentic AI—Creating a Digital Workforce to Achieve Enormous Leaps in Efficiency

Explore what and why Agentic AI can bring to businesses, by creating digital workforces to transform retail, automate customer service, and optimize supply chains.

Deep Dive | August 19, 2025 Premium

Global Luxury—Real Estate Insights: Brands Move from Tenants to Landlords, with Innovative, Experience-Rich Flagships

Discover luxury brand owners’ approaches to retail real estate. Understand why luxury companies are taking greater ownership of their real estate—and which consumer groups the next generation of flagship stores is designed to serve.

Insight Report | July 29, 2025 Premium

The New AI Unicorn—Reka AI Secures $110 Million from NVIDIA and Snowflake: What You Need to Know

NVIDIA and Snowflake jointly led a $110 million funding round in Reka AI, propelling the startup to a valuation exceeding $1 billion. Learn more about Reka and its LLM model, and why companies are investing in it.

Analyst Corner | July 27, 2025

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Analyst Corner: The Labubu Craze—Revealing How Gens Z and Alpha Are Redefining Retail, with Charlie Poon

In this week’s Analyst Corner, Charlie Poon, Analyst, discusses the ways in which Labubu, a palm-sized toy, has become the current “it item” globally, and what its popularity with younger generations reveals about the current retail landscape.

Deep Dive | July 24, 2025 Premium

Retail 2025: China Retail Predictions—Midyear Trends Update

Review how China retail trends and predictions are shaping up as of midyear 2025: How are Chinese consumers shopping, how are China’s retailers evolving and how is tech being deployed in retail?

Insight Report | June 19, 2025 Premium

Head-to-Head in Global Luxury Retailing: Kering vs. LVMH

As part of our Head-to-Head series, we compare Kering and LVMH, the two leading houses in the global luxury sector. Delve into key insights on these companies’ revenues, markets of operation, digital strategies and more.

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.

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).