Analyst Corner
Vaccine Mandate, Labor Shortage and Holiday Sales
If you do your research, you will see that most predictions on US holiday sales range between 7-9% increase which would be the highest increase in many, many years. In…
OnDemand: Avoiding a Potential Security Breach: Best Practices in Retail IoT Security
The average retailer spends 13% of their IT budget on security, but anywhere from 15-40% of that budget is taken up with just being PCI compliant…and let’s face it, that’s…
IHL Group Partners With Content Catalyst to Launch New Platform for Data and Research Reports
LEEDS, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IHL Group, an advisory and research firm covering the global retail and hospitality sectors, has partnered with technology provider Content Catalyst, to launch an interactive platform for subscribers…
For every retailer closings stores, 4.3 are opening new ones in 2021
Store Openings and Closings IHL once again produced a study to get to the truth on store openings and closings with data from 945 retailers. For every chain retailer that…
Pandemic Radically Disrupts mPOS Market
Historically, shipments and installed base in the North American Mobile POS (mPOS) market have been driven by smaller retailers. But COVID radically changed the landscape. Lock-downs caused an estimated 400,000…
Data Wednesday: Psst – Sophia has a secret
Sophia is a retail technology database For years IHL has relied on a customized retail technology database or search engine it we created that is a "target rich environment" for…
Aptos Engage: Transformation Around the New Normal
Last month I had the opportunity to attend Aptos Engage. Like most of the retail technology user conferences this year, the event was held virtually, with the hope that next…