What unified commerce means for specialty retailing
With unified commerce, specialty retailers can blend the digital and physical and provide shoppers with a seamless, personalized and enhanced experience.
Microsoft Industry Blogs: Retail
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Return on intelligence: The human edge in an agentic era
Microsoft is leading retail’s agentic future, empowering human creativity with AI-powered automation to deliver authentic, personalized customer experiences.
Making personalized customer experiences easier for retailers and brands
Learn how recent Microsoft partnerships and initiatives make it easier for retail and consumer goods marketers to deliver personalized customer experiences.
Is tech the new black? Andrey Golub believes AI and VR can make brick-and-mortar shopping fashionable again
One Milan-based startup wants to help shoppers by letting them customize what they want to buy, see and touch the materials in person, and confer with a salesperson before they order.
Experience matters in omnichannel commerce
Why experience matters in omnichannel commerce. Learn more in this guest blog from Microsoft's partner OpenText.
Overrule the Pareto Principle: How to improve portfolio profitability with Inventory Optimization
Inventory management is difficult for retailers and brands of any size. Learn how to optimize your inventory with a single, end-to-end solution.
Driving efficiency and sustainability in consumer goods
Sustainability and business value aren’t at odds. Learn how your retail organization can reduce waste for the sake of your bottom line and the environment.
A Shock to the System: Transforming from Within
As they transform digitally, retailers and CPG brands are breaking out of their comfort zones to school themselves in the ways of startups and tech entrepreneurship.
Embracing New Realities in Retail
Ready for the new retail reality with holograms and immersive virtual stores? Learn how Microsoft and Plexure are transforming retail personalization.
Top takeaways and Microsoft activity from EuroShop 2017
As the pulse of where the retail industry is heading, Microsoft shares its top takeaways and activity from EuroShop 2017, the world's largest retail trade fair.
Smarter Commerce in the Expectation Economy
While retail has always been a mix of art and science, decisions informed by gut-instinct alone aren’t enough in a digitally transformed landscape.
Unlocking the power of Inventory Optimization with the intelligent cloud
Make every SKU count. Learn how you can harness granular insight to drive business value with the Inventory Optimization solution from Microsoft and Neal Analytics.
Machine Learning + Retail Execution = Supercharged store visits and data analysis
For retail execution teams, Machine Learning helps optimize route plans, expedite store visits, and deepen data analysis. Learn more about in-market solutions today.