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Six Steps To Create Intentional Consumer Personalization Programs
Most organizations struggle to deliver relevant and valuable moments that resonate with their target audiences. To succeed, organizations must better understand consumer appetite for personalized interactions, define a vision, develop a strategy, audit their data, coordinate technology, and have a measurement plan.
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Site Search’s Seasonal Shift: The Toolkit To Adapt To Customer Holiday Behaviors And Needs
What shoppers need from their favorite retailers changes during the holiday season. Learn how to optimize your site search accordingly.
Predictions 2026: Your Planning Starts Here
2026 will demand proof, not promises. Explore Forrester’s Predictions resources — guides, webinars, and blogs — to plan smarter, lead with trust, and stay ahead of disruption.
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Predictions 2026: Consumers Find Connection In Unexpected Places
In 2026, consumers will crave connection beyond the traditional sources. In the year ahead, they will seek out offline connections while making synthetic friends. Find out more in our 2026 predictions for consumers.
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Predictions 2026: The “Agentic Commerce” Race — And Some Potential Regrets — In Digital Commerce
Digital leaders get a sneak peek into what's coming in the year ahead by reading three of our predictions for digital commerce in 2026.
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Retailers: Holiday 2025 Is Here!
Retailers: Jump into the 2025 holiday season with Forrester’s holiday planning insights 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.
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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.
APAC B2C & CX Leaders: Unlock 2026 Predictions For AI, Trust, And More
AI hype is fading. Consumer trust is shifting. Join us live on January 22 as Forrester analysts reveal 2026 predictions for APAC—and why trust and transparency will be key to winning loyalty.
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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.
Join Us Live! 2026 B2C Marketing, CX, & Digital Predictions Webinar
AI hype is fading. Consumer trust is shifting. Join us live on January 21 to deep-dive into our 2026 predictions. Discover how to lead with transparency, relevance, and measurable impact.
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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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