Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the innovations on display at this year’s National Retail Federation Big Show, NRF 2022. As retail emerges after a tough couple of years, we review the big themes while highlighting the smaller players who are driving the frontlines of innovation in everything from spatial analytics, robotics, and RFID.
How the IoT Will Change Retail
It wasn’t too long ago that the Internet of Things (IoT) was a new term, and retailers were formulating nascent ideas and predictions on how this new technology might be implemented to serve the industry at large. A recent Retail Systems Research (RSR) report officially puts those days behind us, as 72 percent of surveyed retailers reported to be currently …