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Executive Overview: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
As retail eCommerce sales continue to explode, eBusiness executives must check all the boxes to ensure that they are not missing opportunities in this critical channel. This playbook provides...

A Technographics® Global Overview Report
The Internet plays an important role in consumers' retail habits across the world. Our 2011 data shows that the majority of global online consumers already shop online — and this isn't limited...
Vision: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
Agile commerce promises to change the offers that retailers provide and the ways in which consumers buy; as a result, the look and feel of retail is certain to change in lockstep. All retailers will...

Strategic Plan: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
One of the questions that organizations launching an eCommerce operation commonly ask is, "Are there common elements behind success?" With a decade of retail eCommerce behind us, we can see that...

Benchmarks: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
This is the second of two reports that detail the findings from "The State Of Retailing Online, 2011," a Shop.org research survey conducted by Forrester Research. Specific topics covered in this...

Forrester has partnered with Canada Post and Shop.ca to evaluate the changing trends in online retail in Canada. On paper, the Canadian online retail market has been going through a renaissance,...
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Online retail spending by 22 retail categories for each of the 17 Western European countries. Includes online retail sales as a percent of total retail sales. Also includes online buyers, online...
A Look At eCommerce Growth In Brazil, Mexico, And Argentina
Latin American online retail markets continue to intrigue eBusiness professionals around the world. As in years past, Brazil remains the leading market in Latin America: Online shopping extends to...

Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in September and October 2012 of 13,911 European individuals in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. This survey is based...
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Online retail spending by category in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. Includes online buyers and online spending per buyer by categories such as computer hardware and software, consumer...
Forrester Applies Its Website Functionality Benchmark To The Sites Of Four US Online Grocery Stores
Forrester evaluated the grocery websites of the four most frequently used online grocers based on Forrester Consumer Technographics® data — AmazonFresh, FreshDirect, Peapod, and Safeway...

Bringing The Best Of Digital Into The Physical Environment To Empower Customers And Associates Alike
Digital technology is poised to transform the retail experience. As many retailers struggle to maintain costly store estates, eBusiness executives have an opportunity to play a leading role in...
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Includes mobile buyers as well as revenue segmented by retail sales, travel, and daily deals, with average spend per mobile buyer. Includes data from 2010 plus a five-year forecast.
European eBusiness Executives Must Embrace A Multi-Touchpoint Reality
European retail eBusiness executives face a time of unprecedented change. The range of touchpoints that customers use to discover, explore, buy, and re-engage with brands is growing by the day. New...
Road Map: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
Companies often struggle with how to prioritize the countless issues that populate eCommerce to-do lists. This chapter of the retail eCommerce playbook is a prescriptive look at the industry...

Forrester partners with Shop.org annually to survey online retail executives on their adoption of various web-related technologies and the investment levels associated with those initiatives. This...

Landscape: The Retail eCommerce Playbook
In the second chapter of the retail eCommerce playbook, we lay out the current state of eCommerce and the enormous trillion-dollar opportunity it will represent around the world by 2016. We discuss...

Why It's Time To Think Seriously About Using HTML5 To Differentiate The Desktop Shopping Experience
With broad support across smartphone and tablet devices, HTML5 is already underpinning many mobile web experiences. However, adoption of the technology on the desktop has been slow to date due to...

China is set to be the world's largest eCommerce market by 2015. Growth in this market shows no signs of slowing down, but many of the forces driving sales differ from other eCommerce markets. This...
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Includes mobile commerce buyers and revenue segmented by retail sales, travel, daily deals, and gaming app downloads. Country level detail for France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands,...
A Forrester Technographics Digital Consumer Community Report
In recent years, we have seen a continued increase in online shopping around the holidays. Forrester's US Online Holiday Retail Forecast, 2012 again showed an increase in consumer spending; online...
Forrester conducted an online survey fielded in July 2012 of 20,778 European individuals in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. This survey is based on an...
Forrester partners with Shop.org annually to survey retailers on their attitudes toward and investments in the online retail channel. This year the research specifically probes mobile and tablet...

For The First Time, Most Local Online Retailers Sell On Mobile
Australia knows that mobile's time has come, but the rate at which mobile has become a priority for local online retail professionals is staggering nonetheless. This report highlights the extent to...
Understanding The Opportunity On China's Largest B2C Website
Taking a business online in China is intimidating. Seemingly endless red tape, a diverse online population, and differences in consumer behavior are all issues a company must carefully consider....