Analyst Corner
The Retail Tech Tsunami – Why Your IT Business Isn’t Ready
The retail industry is in the middle of a massive shift in how consumers buy, and as a result, service providers will see an unprecedented amount of work in the…
Data Wednesday: The 1 Technology Winners Deploy at 22x the Rate of Below Average Retailers
When you think through all of the different technologies that retailers deploy today the list is massive. We have store systems like POS, scanners, self-checkout, mobile devices etc. Then we…
R U Ready for CyberCriminal Tuesday? The day after CyberMonday!
The following article was written by Scott Augenbaum who is our keynote speaker at RetailROI SuperSaturday. Scott is a Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent of Cyber Division and Author. To…
OnDemand: 7 Technologies Winning Retailers Are Prioritizing for 2022
7 Popular Retail Technologies This webinar with Greg Buzek of IHL Group and Ricardo Belmar, Microsoft’s Director of Partner Marketing for Retail & CPG at Microsoft includes an update on the latest retail…
Data Wednesday – Is a Single Bad Experience a Death Sentence to a Customer Relationship?
Hi everyone and welcome to our next installment of the IHL Partnership with TruRating. In an industry that is rife with inventory issues and labor shortages, it is not hard…
Data Wednesday – Do Loyalty Plans Work for US Shoppers?
Hi everyone and welcome to the first of several Data Wednesdays that are the fruit of a new IHL partnership with TruRating. In these quick data snippets, IHL will be…
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…