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• 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 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 Five Practices To Succeed With Your Retail E-Commerce Strategy

  Processes: The Retail E-Commerce Playbook

  January 15, 2021 | Sucharita Kodali

  Retail e-commerce has well over two decades of experience under its belt, so digital retail businesses at all maturity stages have a fairly established set of best practices to follow. This report...

• 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 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 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 Vast, Fast, And Relentless: Consumer Buying Enters A New Era

  What B2C Businesses Need To Know To Survive And Thrive In The Next Decade

  August 11, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali, Anjali Lai, Joe Stanhope

  It won't be news to anyone that consumers are more empowered than ever, but it's hard to pin down in precisely what ways they're empowered and how that changes the way businesses must serve them....

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

  Landscape: The Digital Store Playbook

  July 16, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali, Madeline Cyr

  As US states begin to ease COVID-19 restrictions, consumers are still tentative about the prospect of visiting reopened retail locations. This report provides an overview of the state of US...

• Report The Art And Science Of Retail eCommerce

  Executive Overview: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

  July 6, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali

  Retail eCommerce sales continue to climb, and digital business executives must check all the boxes to ensure that they're not missing either opportunities for direct online sales or ways that...

• Report The Definitive Drop-Ship Guide For Brands And Retailers

  Find Your Technology Partners To Enable Successful Drop-Ship Selling

  June 1, 2020 | Emily Pfeiffer, Sucharita Kodali

  Retailers and brands know that shoppers value comprehensive and trustworthy product selections online. They also know drop-ship solutions provide them with bigger assortments and margins. For...

• Report The State Of Retailing Online 2020: Marketing, Omnichannel, And Mobile

  Landscape: The Retail eCommerce Playbook

  April 21, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali

  Forrester surveyed online retailers in its annual "The State Of Retailing Online" study in partnership with the National Retail Federation (NRF). Overall retail continues to grow, including online...

• Report Returning To Work: How To Prepare For Pandemic Recovery

  Essential Steps And Pandemic Management Protocols For Planning Your Operational Recovery

  April 20, 2020 | Stephanie Balaouras, Alla Valente, Andrew Hewitt

  As the epicenter of the global COVID-19 pandemic shifts and each affected region reaches its peak infection rate, firms must prepare now to restart closed plants, reopen retail locations, and bring...

• Report US Online Grocery Snapshot: Q1 2020

  IRI Data Shows Which Essentials Shoppers Most Frequently Buy Online

  April 16, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali

  Grocery is one of the largest retail sectors in the US, but online grocery has had mixed uptake. US shoppers frequently purchase nonedible grocery items like household, health, and beauty products...

• Report US Shopper Insights And The Impact Of COVID-19

  As Of Early April 2020

  April 14, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali

  The past few weeks have proven to be tumultuous for retailers as US retail sales have been adversely affected by COVID-19. While March was challenged, many of the moves toward social distancing...

• Report The State Of Retail Loyalty In 2020

  An Evaluation Of 13 Retail Loyalty Programs

  April 9, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali, Emily Collins

  Shoppers love retail loyalty programs. Three-quarters of online consumers belong to at least one program, and they report regularly using the programs to which they belong. However, not all loyalty...

• Report The State Of The US Mobile Store

  Understanding The Mobile-Powered Shopping Journey

  April 3, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali

  As today’s consumers become increasingly reliant on their smartphones, online retailers with strong mobile sites end up with a very cost-effective way to support shoppers and drive conversion by...

• Report Research Overview: Forrester's Strategies For Digital Success In The Convenience Store Sector

  March 30, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali, Madeline Cyr

  Convenience retailers previously faced minimal digital disruption. However, as new competitors emerge, they must consider new marketing, operations, digital store innovation, and data and insights....

• Report Retail Checkout Page Best Practices

  Examining The Best Practices Of 15 Leading, Primarily US, Retailers

  March 12, 2020 | Lily Varon, Sucharita Kodali

  An intuitive checkout page is particularly important in the online purchase journey — and could be the difference between a transaction and an abandoned cart. We looked at 14 of the top US...

• Report Retailers: You're The Next Media Moguls

  Media Networks From Commerce Companies Are Growing And Transforming Shopping

  February 21, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali

  Amazon is now the most publicized case study of a successful media network from a commerce firm. But other retailers like Best Buy and Walmart have also quietly built profitable ad businesses over...

• Report Digital Store Processes Hinge On Associate Productivity

  Processes: The Digital Store Playbook

  February 18, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali

  The store is rapidly changing: Customers now shop online across a range of devices, scan products from their smartphone in the store, and have their online order delivered to their car as they pull...

• Report Commerce Companies: Stop Living At The Mercy Of The Tech Titans

  Tech Titans In Commerce

  January 29, 2020 | Sucharita Kodali

  Four large technology titans — Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (Google), and Facebook — have different but powerful impacts on the commerce landscape. This report analyzes their common strengths and...

• Report Research Overview: Optimize Digital Commerce Delivery And Returns In The US

  December 26, 2019 | Sucharita Kodali, Madeline Cyr

  This document is an overview of the "Returns, Last Mile, And Same Day Delivery" research series with links to the documents it contains. Brands are grappling with rising consumer expectations for...

• Report Mobile Commerce In 2030

  mCommerce Is A New Mobile Services Economy, Not Mini eCommerce

  December 4, 2019 | Sucharita Kodali, Julie Ask

  Investments in mobile have been one of the most important shifts for consumer-facing businesses in the last decade, but companies will need to modify their strategies and plans to accommodate...