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  Webinar The State Of Chat In Retail: The Current And Future States

  February 23, 2021 | Julie Ask, Nicole Murgia, Hailey Colin

  Consumers are increasingly comfortable engaging with brands on mobile platforms, yet many chat experiences don't support modern interactions such as e-commerce. In our evaluation of 113 top brands,...

• Report Digital Go-To-Market Review: Consumer Electronics Brands, 2021

  Smart Brands Prioritize Direct-To-Consumer Sales And E-Control

  February 2, 2021 | Sucharita Kodali, Madeline Cyr

  Brands that have traditionally sold through wholesale channels must adapt to the drastically evolving retail environment. Forrester's Digital Go-To-Market Review evaluates brands across the...

• Report Gauge Your Digital Store Maturity

  Assessment: The Digital Store Playbook

  January 29, 2021 | Emily Pfeiffer, Madeline Cyr

  Digital business leaders who are driving digital store transformation initiatives need a clear plan for how technology will transform the store. Plus, they need the skills to influence others in...

• Report Branded Manufacturers: Master Your Own Digital Destiny

  Understand Your Brand's Digital Commerce Opportunity To Craft A Comprehensive Direct-To-Consumer Strategy

  January 29, 2021 | Michelle Beeson

  Consumer-facing brand manufacturers are doubling down on their direct-to-consumer (DTC) digital engagement and commerce capabilities. To master their digital destiny, brands must understand the...

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  Playbook The Digital Store Playbook For 2021

  How To Transform Your Retail Store

  Today's customers look for and buy experiences, not simply products. Digital technology offers retailers a toolkit to engage customers with new and enhanced experiences. It also enables them to...

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• Report Five Key Stakeholders Will Define Retail In The 2020s

  Vision: The Retail E-Commerce Playbook

  January 27, 2021 | Sucharita Kodali, Fiona Swerdlow

  New business models and new ways of getting goods to consumers have already transformed retail. In the coming years, retailers and brands will bow to tighter scrutiny and accountability by...

• Report The Retail E-Commerce Metrics That Matter

  Performance Management: The Retail E-Commerce Playbook

  January 25, 2021 | Sucharita Kodali

  To achieve key business goals such as increasing retail sales, digital business retail executives need to ensure that they have the right metrics in place. These metrics should track customers' use...

• Report US Online Grocery Snapshot: Q1 2021

  IRI Data Shows How The Pandemic Has Shaped Online Grocery

  January 20, 2021 | Sucharita Kodali

  Digital business retail pros generally agree that the pandemic has driven rapid growth in online grocery sales. Data from IRI confirms that shift — but it's still unclear how much of that behavior...

• Report The Five Key Success Factors Of Every Digital Business

  Strategic Plan: The Retail E-Commerce Playbook

  January 4, 2021 | Sucharita Kodali

  Successful organizations are largely driven by the right people, the right organizational structure, and an innovative idea for selling online that often reinforces brick-and-mortar stores. In the...

• Report Betting On Bots For Grocery E-Commerce

  What You Need To Know About Automated Microfulfillment Solutions For Grocery E-Commerce

  December 28, 2020 | Scott Compton

  Grocery store operations and digital execs are evaluating and investing in innovative, automated technology to scale to growing consumer demand for fast fulfillment options of online orders. In...

• Report The State Of The US Grocery Shopper — COVID-19

  US Grocery Shopper Behaviors In The New Normal

  December 22, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali, Madeline Cyr

  Throughout waves of shutdowns and fears that the coronavirus pandemic has resurged, one place where online adults still show up is in grocery stores. In this way, the pandemic has essentially...

• Report US Grocery: Digital Best Practices

  December 22, 2020 | Scott Compton, Angelina Gennis

  As e-commerce grocery orders surge, online grocers must cultivate lifetime value and loyalty from new customers. We expect North American grocery retail sales to grow 7.6% in 2020 and increase...

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  Webinar Buy Now, Pay Later: Understanding The Latest Hot Topic In Retail Payments

  December 15, 2020 | Lily Varon, Nicole Murgia

  Within the past few years, the deferred payments market — a broad category covering installments, "buy now, pay later," Pay in 4, point-of-sale financing, and alternative lending — has...

• Report Now Tech: Commerce Services, Q4 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 35 Commerce Service Providers

  December 9, 2020 | Ted Schadler

  Commerce service providers are the orchestrators of the software, data, and strategy you need to deliver great omnichannel commerce experiences. They should offer you skills for commerce...

• Report Building The Business Case For Omnichannel Commerce

  Business Case: The Omnichannel Commerce Playbook

  December 7, 2020 | Brendan Witcher

  Digital business professionals must build effective omnichannel business cases to minimize the risk of launching initiatives that: 1) lack critical internal support; 2) fail to meet customers'...

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  Webinar Retailers: Optimize Your Post-Purchase Experience To Delight And Win Customers

  November 19, 2020 | Emily Pfeiffer, Brandon Shaik

  Retailers and brands often miss the opportunity to create excellent experiences for their customers even after capturing an order. Unlike with regular marketing emails, customers are much more...

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  Webinar Retail Predictions 2021

  November 13, 2020 | Fiona Swerdlow, Sucharita Kodali, Brendan Witcher

  As they navigate the next wave(s) of the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, retailers, brand manufacturers, and ecosystem players (such as mall operators) will determine whether they are in...

• Report Must-Have E-Commerce Features

  Roadmap: The Retail E-Commerce Playbook

  October 28, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali

  Digital business professionals often grapple with prioritizing the countless issues that populate e-commerce to-do lists. This report takes a prescriptive look at industry standards as well as the...

• Report The Omnichannel Maturity Assessment

  Assessment: The Omnichannel Commerce Playbook

  October 19, 2020 | Brendan Witcher

  Supporting an omnichannel fulfillment program is table stakes in retail today — and particularly in light of pandemic or other market shift conditions. Organizations need to assess their...

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  Webinar Industry Lens: Tech Titans In Retail

  October 9, 2020 | Fiona Swerdlow, Sucharita Kodali

  Join Forrester VP and principal analyst Sucharita Kodali for the third in our three-part "Industry Lens: Tech Titans" webinar series. Episode 3 focuses on how the tech titans such as Apple, Google,...

• Report It's Time For Retail Stores To Open Their Doors To The Digital Org

  Organization: The Digital Store Playbook

  August 28, 2020 | Brendan Witcher

  In the age of the customer — and especially in the midst of a pandemic — channel-specific strategies, tactics, and organizational structures become irrelevant and (worse) potentially crippling. To...

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  Webinar Retail This Week, Part 11

  August 28, 2020 | Fiona Swerdlow, Emily Pfeiffer

  Join Forrester VP and research director Fiona Swerdlow for the next episode of the "Retail This Week" webinar series, in which she recaps key developments and new insights in retail news and...

• Report Brands' Success Relies On Relationships With Retailers

  Brands Must Evolve From Suppliers To Partners

  August 17, 2020 | Michelle Beeson

  The pandemic has magnified the importance of digital commerce strategies. For brands, it is not all about direct-to-consumer (D2C). A significant proportion of most brands' revenue comes via...

• Report Research Overview: Online Marketplaces

  A Guide To Buying, Selling, And Creating Market Leverage Via Everyone's Favorite Digital Platform Business Model

  August 17, 2020 | Allen Bonde, Caleb Ewald

  Online marketplaces aren't a new idea. Yet over the past few years, they have (re)emerged as a preferred channel for consumers, small businesses, and a growing number of enterprise buyers. For...

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  Webinar Retail This Week, Part 10

  August 14, 2020 | Fiona Swerdlow, Jacob Morgan, Lily Varon

  Join Forrester VP and research director Fiona Swerdlow for the next episode of the "Retail This Week" webinar series, in which she recaps key developments and new insights in retail news and...