Digital transformation in the retail sector has given rise to a myriad of innovations over the past few years to provide a seamless customer experience. Retail giants such as Amazon, Alibaba, and Walmart as well as innovative startups such as Nuro, Starship, and Magic Leap take a proactive approach to attract customers with secure, AI-driven, swift, and phygital experiences. This report categorizes key disruptive forces in retail as maturing, accelerating, and emerging innovation areas based on their rate of growth in innovation. To name a few are autonomous last-mile delivery, virtual stores, and digital olfaction in accelerating, and live commerce, pay by face, and blockchain-based payments in emerging. The report also casts light on key market activities in retail such as VC funding, M&A, strategic partnerships, patent filings, and real-world innovations. The awareness, knowledge, and expertise on these innovation areas can help transform business models, decision-making, and strategic thinking that directly influence R&D, collaboration, acquisition, and investment decisions.
Key Highlights
Retail sector trending concepts, major drivers, top technology themes transforming the sector, key innovation areas within the sector and their leading patent filers, leading public-listed companies, and innovation startups, disruptive potential of innovation areas as highlighted by interesting patents by startups, VC deals, M&A trends, startup partnerships with retailers, game-changing innovations, and outlook on retailtech advancements.Scope
- Key disruptive forces in retail - presents the trending concepts in retail, major drivers for digital transformation, top technologies, and maturing, accelerating, and emerging innovation areas with disruptive potential in retail.
- Accelerating: key innovation areas - deep dive on accelerating innovation areas to highlight the innovation strategy of top retailers, disruptive potential captured by data signals on the innovation area, leading public-listed companies and startups, interesting patents by startups, VC focus, M&A trends, startup partnerships with retailers, and game-changing company innovations.
- Emerging: key innovation areas - overview of select emerging innovation areas to capture their disruptive potential, highlighting the drivers, deals trends, patents trends, game-changing innovations, and disruptive startups.
- Outlook - highlights the development of emerging concepts relevant to the innovation areas.
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Table of Contents
1. Key Disruptive Forces in Retail
2. Accelerating Key Innovation Areas
3. Emerging Key Innovation Areas
4. Outlook
Companies Mentioned (Partial List)
A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes, but is not limited to:
- 3D Cloud by Marxent
- 7-Eleven
- Adidas
- Adobe
- Aerobotics
- Alibaba
- Amazon
- Anchor Labs
- Apex Imaging Services
- Apple
- Atheer
- AutoX
- Avataar
- Baidu
- Benetton Group
- Best Buy
- BioCarbon Engineering
- BitPay
- Boeing
- Boxbot
- Browns
- Burberry
- ByondXR
- ByteDance
- Calvin Klein
- Charlotte Tilbury
- Chipotle Mexican Grill
- Cleveron
- Coach
- Coco
- Coinplug
- Coupang
- Crypto.com
- CVS Pharmacy
- Decathlon
- Deliv
- Deuce Drone
- Deutsche Post
- Dior
- Domino's Pizza
- Dorabot
- eBay
- Eliport
- Elle
- Elroy Air
- Eversight
- Falabella
- Farfetch
- FedEx
- Fendi
- Fetch Rewards
- Flytrex
- Forever 21
- Fuzamei
- Giorgio Arman
- Grabango
- GreyOrange
- Groupon
- Guangzhou Saite Intelligent
- GUESS
- Harrods
- IBM
- IGT
- IKEA
- Immersion
- InPost
- Intel
- Interplai
- Invia Robotics
- JD.com
- Jins Holdings
- Kohl's
- Kroger
- Lancome
- LetinAR
- Light Field Lab
- Linkflow
- Locus Robotics
- L'Oreal
- Lowe's
- Lunu
- MadeiraMadeira
- Magic Leap
- Mastercard
- Matterport
- McDonald's
- Megvii
- Meituan
- meleap
- Meta
- Microsoft
- MindMaze
- MobiTV
- Neolix
- Niantic
- Nike
- Nuro
- Obsess
- Ocado
- Off-White
- Olay
- OnTrac
- Oppo
- Ostendo
- Ottonomy.IO
- Overstock.com
- Ox Labs
- Pacific Light & Hologram
- PatPat
- Pharmabot
- Procter & Gamble
- Prodrone
- PVH
- Quantum Interface
- Quortex
- Rakuten
- Ralph Lauren
- RealWear
- RetailVR
- rewardStyle
- Ripple
- Robby Technologies
- Roblox
- Roto VR
- Rypplzz
- Samsung
- Seven & i Holdings
- Shenzhen Excellent Technology
- Shenzhen Goodix
- Shinsegae
- Shopify
- Skyryse
- Skyryse
- Snap
- Sony
- Spatial Systems
- Standard Cognition
- Starship
- Steven Stone
- Strike
- Syrius Robotics
- TAG Heuer
- Target
- TeleRetail
- Tencent
- TerraClear
- Tesco
- Tevel Aerobotics
- The Home Depot
- The Warehouse
- Threekit
- Tommy Hilfiger
- Touchcast
- Transformco
- Trax
- Udelv
- Ultrahaptics
- Umbra
- UnchartedVR
- Unilever
- United Parcel Service
- Vecna Robotics
- VectorMax
- Visa
- Volocopter
- Walmart
- Wayfair
- WeR Augmented Reality Cloud
- Wuhan Douyu Network Technology
- Xiaomi
- XXL Sport & Villmark
- Yogo Robotics
- ZEPETO
- Zipline
- Zippedi
- Zoox
- Zume