Analyst Series: Retail Analysis

Wednesday, February 22 | 2PM ET

Trends & Innovation that will Determine the Fate of Retailers

Despite record-high inflation, tightening labor markets and ongoing uncertainty, retailers need to continue to embrace innovation. They must continue to transform, invest, and innovate to remain competitive and create their future or they risk falling behind.

Current challenges and opportunities for retailers include pricing, labor, logistics, technology, and sustainability. To keep moving forward, they will need to make strategic and operational adjustments as the economic environment unfolds.

Research Analysts surveyed 100 retail executives on the state of the industry to identify key trends that will continue to drive the industry forward.

Join Margot Juros, Research Director for IDC Retail Insights, and executives in the retail industry for a live virtual discussion on the fate of retail.

Speaker: Margot Juros, Research Director, Retail Technology Strategies 

Margot Juros is a Research Director for IDC Retail Insights responsible for the Retail Technology Strategies research program. Ms. Juros’s core research focuses on best practices, trends, market conditions, business concerns, and vendor offerings to provide authoritative advice on investment, life-cycle management and the use of technologies for modern IT infrastructure. Her research will cover key technologies in Retail transformation, including IT modernization, cloud/edge/5G, security, payments, mobile platforms, and network management. 

Prior to joining IDC, Ms. Juros was a senior market intelligence analyst at IBM, most recently focused on advising corporate leaders on strategy, partnerships, trends and competition in the Retail and Consumer Products industries. During her long tenure at IBM, she specialized in the application and adoption of technologies across various industries with a particular eye to the impact of emerging technology, including IoT, blockchain, AI and 5G.