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What is Retail?

Retail refers to products and services that support the planning, execution, and optimization of commerce across physical and digital retail environments. This category includes markets that focus on digital commerce, point-of-sale systems, pricing and promotion optimization, store operations, and retail media-enabling retailers to deliver seamless, data-driven, and customer-centric shopping experiences.

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20 CATEGORIES

  • Digital CommercePopular
  • Digital Commerce Payment Vendors (Transitioning to Digital Commerce Payment Platforms)
  • Digital Shelf Analytics
  • Digital-Business-Ready POS Platforms for Tier 1 Quick-Service Restaurants
  • E-Commerce Merchandising Solutions for Unified Retail Commerce
  • Intelligent Retail Business Applications
  • Intelligent Virtual Store Design Applications (Transitioning to Advanced Retail Space Planning Applications)
  • Live Commerce in Retail
  • Retail Assortment Management Applications: Long Life Cycle Products (Transitioning to Retail Forecasting, Allocation and Replenishment Solutions: Long-Life-Cycle Products)
  • Retail Assortment Management Applications: Short Life Cycle Products (Transitioning to Retail Forecasting, Allocation and Replenishment Solutions: Short Life Cycle Products)
  • Retail Execution Management in Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
  • Retail Loss Prevention and Asset Protection Solution (Retired)
  • Retail Media Networks
  • Retail Merchandise Financial Planning
  • Retail Store Inventory Management Applications (Transitioning to Unified Commerce Retail Store Inventory Management Applications)
  • Retail Workforce Management Applications (Transitioning to Retail Workforce Management Technology)Popular
  • Trade Promotion Management and Optimization for the Consumer Goods Industry (Transitioning to Consumer Goods Trade Promotion Solutions)
  • Unified Commerce Platforms Anchored by POS for Tier 1 Retailers
  • Unified Commerce Platforms Anchored by POS for Tier 2 Retailers (Transitioning to Unified Commerce Platforms Anchored by AI-Enabled POS for Tier 2 Retailers)
  • Unified Price, Promotion and Markdown Optimization Applications (Transitioning to Retail Unified Price, Promotion and Markdown Optimization Applications — {Short Life Cycle} ; {Long Life Cycle})
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