This report provides vendor strategists with an assessment of the IT opportunities available in China's retail industry. The report examines the eight key segments in the country's retail sector, which are food, garments, electronics, cosmetics/medicines, home furnishings and furniture, lifestyle products, office products, and multi-product outlets. In addition, IT solutions and deployment trends, business challenges, and a market overview are provided. The report also offers a competitive landscape analysis of Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Oracle, eFuture, UFIDA Software Engineering, and U-Soft.