Special reports
Access to exclusive in-depth research and analysis on an extensive breadth of retailer issues.
This library of Retail Week reports provides in-depth insight on a range of topics, from digital transformation to diversity and inclusion, to the influential people who are blazing a trail in retail.
Our latest reports
The Innovation Report 2024
50 global retailers, one Innovation Report. Discover the top businesses for tech transformation as decided by Retail Week’s team of journalists, analysts and experts
Talking Shop 2024
We survey 500 UK frontline staff to find out what motivates them, the challenges they navigate and the opportunities that lie ahead
Grocery Innovators
Innovation and transformation are essential parts of supermarket strategies
Insight from the retail eco-system: expert analysis from the sector’s leading suppliers
How retailers are harnessing AI-powered personalisation
How embedded finance is enabling retail growth
Revealed: Four ways retailers can reduce omnichannel friction
Revealed: Two-thirds of retailers are using AI to drive personalisation
AI-enhanced CX: Four retail disruptors making it happen
AI and Marketing: Three Secrets to Success
More special reports
Retail 2025
Exclusive: 43 retail leaders from 39 businesses reveal strategies for 2025
The Fastest Way to Lose Consumers
Honest opinions from 1,000 consumers on AI, marketing and data
The Christmas Forecast 2024
All roads lead to the golden quarter for UK retail, which has the power to make or break businesses. Therefore, having the right strategy in place is essential.
Retail 100
Celebrating retail’s most influential leaders
AI Adopters
Meet the 10 AI Adopters and learn from their market-leading strategies.
Shopper Unlocked
Exclusive insight into the psyche of UK online shoppers in 2024.
Future Leaders 2024
Discover the 30 CEOs in waiting and let us know what you think of our predictions.
Supply Chain 2025
Retail Week’s annual blueprint for supply chain success.
The UK’s Top 30 Ecommerce Retailers
Winning strategies for sustainable growth.
The UK’s Top 30 Most Productive Retailers 2024
This report fully illuminates the methods driving retailer’s productivity strategies.
The Tech List 2024
Retail Week’s definitive index of the world’s top 50 digital leaders has published. Find out who you should be learning from and working with when it comes to tech transformation
How They’ll Spend It 2024
The real shopping priorities of UK consumers
Beyond the Hype
How AI in UK retail has moved to the mainstream
Retail 2024
The bosses of leading retailers have spoken in-depth to Retail Week for its annual flagship report.
Lessons in Loyalty
How can you cut through the noise in a world where consumers are hypersensitive to price, crave authenticity and have retailers queuing up to give it to them?
Retail 100 2023
Retail Week’s annual celebration of the sector’s top 100 individuals has landed. Back for its 18th year, the Retail 100 index recognises the inspiring leaders driving people, purpose and profits.
The Global Innovation Report
This report showcases the technology, data and new thinking being drawn upon by global retailers in 18 markets to drive innovation in all areas of business.
The Christmas Forecast 2023
Retail’s most lucrative time of the year, the golden quarter has the power to make or break businesses – so nailing your strategy is essential.
Retail Changemakers
Featuring exclusive sales forecasts, Retail Week analysts have identified fifteen global retailers and brands that are excelling in supply chain operations. Meet the Retail Changemakers
Talking Shop
530 UK store staff reveal what they really want from retailers
The UK’s Top 30 Most Productive Retailers
Asos, Victorian Plumbing and Zalando are top of the productivity leaderboard, Retail Week’s new report reveals.
Supply Chain 2024
What should your supply chain and IT strategy look like in the year ahead? We asked 50 leaders from inside the industry and the results were staggering.
Future Leaders
Retail Week journalists, analysts and headhunters have looked into their crystal balls to forecast just who are the industry’s CEOs in waiting. Discover the 30 talented people predicted to become retail CEOs
The UK’s Top 30 Ecommerce Retailers
In a Retail Week first, this report features an exclusive ranking of the UK’s 30 biggest ecommerce retailers by FY22 forecast online sales as compiled by our analyst team
Catalogues: Connecting with consumers. Converting sales
Online shopping might bring ease and convenience to shoppers, but they also crave time away from their screens, and tactile, sensory experiences. This is where direct mail, and specifically, catalogues come in.
Crisis and the consumer
Half of consumers plan to spend less this Christmas and 40% are looking to spend the same as last year, a major new research report from Retail Week reveals.
The Tech List
The Tech List is an essential read for retailers and brands looking for insights on the hottest digital trends, who to partner with and where to prioritise investment.
Retail 2023
Retail 2023 will give you fresh inspiration to weather the coming months and help you build a resilient set of strategies to make 2023 a success.
The Christmas Forecast 2022
Exclusive data reveals how retail sales will fare this Christmas
Future Formats
How are leading retailers and brands giving consumers the real-life experiences they crave?
The Digital Spend Report
How 50 retail leaders are investing in frictionless tech futures
Retail 100 2022
Retail Week’s annual celebration of the sector’s 100 most influential individuals
The Great Store Revival
New data reveals top 30 UK retailers by store growth
Rents, Rates, Reform
Twenty-five leading retailers on the blueprint to solve the industry’s property crisis
Chain Reaction
Fifty leaders on the new thinking and tech reinventing supply chains
Retail’s New Consumer Personas
Understanding behaviours and buying habits of today’s global consumer
9 CX Disruptors
Meet the retailers and brands redefining experience
Ecommerce 2022
Lessons from the UK’s most-visited websites
Green is the New Black
How to become a more sustainable brand
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