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Retailers: Holiday 2025 Is Here!
Retailers — jump into the 2025 holiday season with Forrester's Holiday Planning Guide and key takeaways in this blog.
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Don’t Call It A Browser War: OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Atlas
OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT Atlas marks a new milestone in the arms race of AI browsers. Yet it has high hurdles to clear in a competitive market.
The Countdown To 2026 Predictions Has Begun
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Retail’s Holiday 2025: More Sales, Profits, And AI-Driven Commerce
Time to pull out the holiday decorations and start building that gift list — Q4 2025 is upon us! For retail and other business leaders, this means daily meetings to raise, review, revise, and rip apart their inventory, promotion, commerce, and marketing strategies.
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Fall-ing For Prime Big Deal Days: How Retailers Competed With Amazon’s October Sale Event
Get key insights for how retailers competed with Amazon’s October sales event before the holiday season.
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Are You Running Consumer Personalization Programs? We’d Like To Hear From You!
Consumers are increasingly skeptical of personalized interactions, yet marketers see them as vital to success. Our latest research explores how B2C organizations are designing personalization programs that balance customer needs with internal strategy, data, and technology. If you’re involved in personalization efforts, we invite you to share your insights.
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2025 US Holiday Retail Sales Will Outperform The Previous Two Years
Forrester forecasts 4.4% year-over-year growth in US holiday retail sales for 2025, with strong in-store and online performance despite tariff-related uncertainty.
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Ensure That Your Consumer Personalization Vision Is 20/20
Clients often ask us, “What are personalization best practices?” But depending on the organization, the word “personalization” can mean very different things. Personalization is multifaceted and needs a qualifier such as personalization initiatives, personalization programs, personalization capabilities, personalized tactics, personalized interactions, personalized moments, consumer personalization, or business personalization. Forrester defines personalization as: The use of a […]
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The Circular Economy: The White Knight Of IT Sustainability In Recycled Armor
Circular economy initiatives often lack a holistic approach, leading to varied interpretations and applications. Learn the six key components that play a crucial role in applying circular economy principles in IT.
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Brand Manufacturers: Explore Dynamic Commerce Before Retailers Eat Your Lunch!
For brand manufacturers, the contextualized interactions enabled by dynamic commerce are becoming a blueprint for growth. Learn how to leverage this now to maintain a competitive edge.
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Today’s Leaders Must Heed AI Advice For Future Disruptors
Startup founders, investors, technologists, and operators are all working frantically to get an early jump onto the AI train. Find out why and get more of the key takeaways from the recent Startup Boston Week event.
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Your Competition Is Using New Commerce Transformation To Siphon Your Customer Base
As the commerce landscape quickly evolves and shows new potential, The Commerce Services Landscape, Q3 2025, can help you identify and shortlist the vendors that can best drive your commerce transformation.
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NRF Europe Innovators Showcase: Retail Tech To Watch
Read this Forrester blog for an overview of the NRF Europe Innovators Showcase highlighting retail technology vendors that are making headlines.
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Consumers Are Using AI — But They Still Don’t Trust It
Consumers are using AI more than ever — but they still don’t trust it. Forrester’s latest regional reports uncover how attitudes toward AI vary across Europe, North America, and APAC, along with what organizations must do to build trust.
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Introducing Forrester AI Access: Equipping Organizations With Trusted Insights To Act Fast
Forrester AI Access is an important milestone in our AI journey, beginning with our 2023 launch of Izola. With AI Access, organizations can validate ideas, innovate, and make smarter decisions faster.
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Starbucks: One Year Later
On the anniversary of Brian Niccol taking the reins, we look at the foundation he has laid for the future.
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Europe-5 Markets Chart Their Own Path To Commerce Growth
By front-loading exports and remaining largely insulated from US tariffs in H1 2025, Europe-5 (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK) businesses are planning for 10% US tariffs on many UK goods and 15% US tariffs on many EU goods for the next several years.
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Announcing Forrester’s Consumer Intelligence Platforms Landscape Report
It’s hard for marketers to keep track of the tools and platforms designed to help brands understand their consumers. As the demand for a more holistic view of the consumer and speed to insight grows, so does the scope of the platforms that support these needs.
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US Economic Outlook H2 2025: Steady Growth, Growing Caution
The US economy performed relatively well in the first half of 2025 despite rising tariff uncertainty and delayed decision-making by businesses, consumers, investors, and central banks. Find out what to expect in the second half of 2025 in this preview of Forrester’s US Economic Trends And Outlook, H2 2025, report.
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AI Pricing, Outcome-Based Pricing, Developer Productivity
As the annual budgeting and planning season comes into full swing, we drill down into two unique pricing trends. We then take a detailed look at how to measure developer productivity.
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US Consumers Want Subscription Companies To Do Better
The average US online adult has more than four monthly subscriptions, according to Forrester’s 2024 data. Subscription companies have room to improve what they provide their customers.
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