Special Reports

IT Integration Playbook: Building Organizations To Be Change-Ready
Learn how consumer goods companies and retailers like Kimberly-Clark, ConAgra, Walmart, and more are creating agile, adaptable organizations through new ways of thinking and new technologies.
Managing Talent: Win-Win Workforce Management Strategies for the Retail Frontline
In this interactive report, RIS explores how retailers' strategic workforce technology investments are holding up amidst ongoing economic pressures and labor shortages, laying out a roadmap for future priorities and areas of opportunity.

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Best of NRF 2023: Top 10 Takeaways
As the name implies, the NRF Big Show is mammoth. Three short days is never enough to see everything.
Research and Reports
RIS 2023 NRF Preview: Your Guide to Retail’s Biggest Show
The annual agenda from RIS is your curated collection of must-see events and sessions from retail's biggest event of the year. Check out this critical resource before you hit the show floor.
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Voices From The Frontline: What the Seasonal (and Yearly!) Retail Workforce Wants
Almost half of U.S. frontline retail employees are thinking of leaving their jobs in the next few months. Learn how retailers are navigating this talent crunch by offering more flexibility, personalized benefits, and a powerful, people-centric culture.
Workforce Management
The Great Acceptance: Rebuilding Workforce Ideals to Come Back Stronger
In this interactive report, RIS explores how retailers can embrace innovation and technology that strengthens and modernizes the workforce, incentivizes staff loyalty, and bolsters recruiting efforts, ultimately creating a more powerful consumer experience. Learn more.
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Grocery Tech Trends 2022: Enabling Sticky Shopper Habits
Uncover the top grocery retailer technology trends for 2022 and beyond, and learn how key retail leaders are empowering sticky shopper habits and improving the grocery shopping experience.
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Unveiling the Transformative Potential of AI and Automation Across the Supply Chain
Reinventing the supply chain is underway — RIS explores how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation are sculpting new supply chain models in this interactive report.
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RIS 2022 NRF Preview: Your Guide to Retail’s Biggest Show
RIS' annual curated look at the must-see events and sessions at the NRF Big Show. Check out this must-read retail resource before you hit the show floor.
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The 2021 Apparel Top 50
RIS uncovers the top 50 profitable apparel retailers and gives an in-depth look at the technologies driving the success of those in the top 10 in this interactive report.
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Workforce Management for Retail Victory
Discover how retailers can harness retail technology to set up their workforce for success, improving both the employee and customer experience.
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Evolution of How Consumers Shop
The powerful combination of digital shopping and brick-and-mortar stores creates a multiverse of options for consumers.
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Top Grocery Trends 2021: Reinventing the Customer Experience
The key question grocers should be asking themselves as the nation clears the final COVID-19 hurdles is: What just happened? RIS uncovers the top customer experience trends changing the retail landscape today in this interactive report.
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AI's Critical Role in Powering the Retail Supply Chain
From demand to delivery, and after — uncover how artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies are reshaping the supply chain for the future of commerce in this interactive report.

RIS Special Reports feature in-depth reporting and analysis on a range
of topics that are impacting retail.