May 15, 2025 Insight Report Premium Retail Crime and Shrink: More Shoppers Say No to Locked-Up Merchandise; Self-Checkout Gets a MakeoverNew US consumer survey findings from Coresight Research reveal the deterrent effect of restrictive in-store security measures… for regular shoppers. Dive into our new data and discover recent shrink-related developments in the US and the UK, with highlights on self-checkout updates and new theft-targeting legislation. Plus, this report presents recent commentary from selected North American retailers on the current state of shrink.
May 15, 2025 Event Coverage Premium AI Agents Power Cognitive Supply Chains: Insights from Blue Yonder ICON 2025 ConferenceWe offer highlights from Blue Yonder’s ICON 2025 conference, with insights spanning agentic AI (artificial intelligence), “Cognitive Solutions,” planogram management, returns and environmental sustainability.
May 13, 2025 Deep Dive Free Report Five Ways Brands and Retailers Can Use AI/ML and Shared Data to Energize End-to-End Product ManagementProduct 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.
May 4, 2025 Analyst Corner Register for Free Access Analyst Corner: How Is AI Shaping MarTech?—Transforming Your Strategy via Agentic AI, with Manik BhatiaIn this week’s Analyst Corner, Manik Bhatia, Head of Custom Research, discusses the potential for increased use of AI (artificial intelligence) within the MarTech (marketing technology) landscape.
April 29, 2025 Event Presentation Premium Unlock the Untapped Potential of AI-Powered MarTech: Coresight Research Premium Subscriber Call, April 2025Understand the importance of AI (artificial intelligence)-powered MarTech (marketing technology) in retail, and discover how to unlock value! With insights spanning GenAI, agentic AI and more, we offer insights to help you strategize for success. This presentation accompanies the on-demand webinar of the Coresight Research Premium Subscriber Call on April 29, 2025.
April 26, 2025 Event Presentation Premium New Technologies to Drive Retailer-Supplier Collaboration: Insights Presented at NACDS Annual Meeting 2025Discover five tech-driven strategies that protect against earnings erosion in the context of macroeconomic uncertainty and tariffs. These strategies, which touch on retail media, demand forecasting and pricing, align with elements of the Coresight Research CORE Framework for AI (artificial intelligence) in retail. This presentation was delivered by Coresight Research at the NACDS Annual Meeting 2025.
April 14, 2025 Event Coverage Premium Walmart Investment Community Meeting 2025: From Low-Margin Retailer to Diversified, Digital Profit Engine, But Tariffs Create UncertaintyWe present insights from Walmart’s Investment Community Meeting 2025, covering its digital businesses, Sam’s Club’s growth plans, and the impacts of tariffs.
April 14, 2025 Insight Report Premium Music Festivals: A Key Opportunity for Retail Brand EngagementWhat opportunities do music festivals present for brands and retailers, and what strategies can brands employ to engage with festivalgoers and drive spending? Dive into Coresight Research survey findings to understand festivalgoers’ 2025 plans, and uncover four key ways that retail companies can create immersive experiences that resonate with festival audiences.
April 10, 2025 Event Presentation Premium Freeze, Flight or Fight? How Retailers Can Strategically Navigate Tariff TurmoilNavigate tariffs with our expert insights, presented in a webinar by our Advisory Services team. Discover what to watch, what to avoid, and what strategies your business should implement now to protect performance in 2025 and beyond. Freeze, flight or fight? Now is the time to decide.
April 9, 2025 Deep Dive Premium What You Need to Know About US Tariffs and Consumers’ and Retailers’ Reactions—April 2025 UpdateWhat are the impacts of new US tariffs on the retail industry and the economy? How are consumers and retailers responding? Find out in our new report, which explores economic disruption, consumer sentiment and retail strategies, drawing on proprietary survey data and industry interviews.
April 8, 2025 Insight Report Premium 4Q24 Retail Inventory Insights: Retailers Maintain Lean Inventories as Overall Inventory Ratio Remains UnchangedOur quarterly US Retail Inventory Insights series analyzes inventory trends in US retail. In this report, dive into trends by sector and inventory turnover ratios among major US retailers in the fourth quarter of 2024.
March 31, 2025 Deep Dive Free Report Unlocking Success: The Pathway to Profitability for US Brands and RetailersDriving margin expansion is increasingly challenging in a highly competitive retail environment and amid growing uncertainty around tariffs. Understand profitability challenges and the technologies that retail companies are prioritizing to solve them with our free, survey-driven research report, produced in partnership with Rithum. We explore the path to profitability across the retail value chain, from product assortment to retail media to returns.
March 27, 2025 Event Coverage Register for Free Access Shoptalk Spring 2025: Day Three—Community Building, Earning Loyalty and Enhancing Search Are Top of MindWe present highlights from the third (and final) day of the conference. Discover insights on community building, loyalty and AI (artificial intelligence)-powered search.
March 27, 2025 Event Coverage Register for Free Access Shoptalk Spring 2025 “Shark Reef” Startup Pitch: Recap—12 Innovators, Two WinnersWhich retail-technology innovators won the Shoptalk Spring 2025 “Shark Reef” Startup Pitch competition? Find out and read highlights from each presentation in this recap report. Coresight Research is a research partner of Shoptalk Spring.
March 26, 2025 Event Coverage Register for Free Access Shoptalk Spring 2025: Day Two—Next-Generation Search and the Leading Edge of Storytelling, from Influencers to Lived ValuesWe present insights on the second day of Shoptalk Spring 2025, covering next-generation search and the future of marketing—from understanding the consumer to storytelling to building communities.