With a new year upon us, we welcome a fresh start. We celebrate the resilience of the retail community this past year while reflecting on the challenges endured by so many both professionally and personally.

Top customer stories of 2021

We are grateful for our customer partnerships to share their success and best practices with you. Whether these stories inspire you to make a change, think differently or just provide you with a sense of community, we wish you much success in the year ahead.

1. Bed Bath & Beyond modernizes its retail technology operations
2. PEPCO Group leverages retail KPIs to embrace changing consumer expectations
3. Gap, Giant Eagle cloud-enable critical merchandising functions
4. Helzberg Diamonds adds clarity with AI in retail and optimization
5. Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board chooses Oracle Retail Cloud
6. Farmacias Arrocha transforms the in-store shopping experience
7. New ways of working: Farmatodo completes retail solution implementation in a 100% remote project model
8. TOG24 implements a modern retail POS
9. Sports retail brand enjoying success with Oracle Mobile Retail Solutions
10. Mexican footwear retailer steps up customer engagement
11. Retail inventory strategies from Primark and Mr. Price for changing consumer demand

Top thought leadership blogs of 2021

As we continue to navigate the uncertainty of what lies ahead, Oracle Retail is committed to supporting your business and providing support to the retail community. We've curated some of our most popular resources to help:

1. Retail at an inflection point: consumer research 2021
2. Finding clarity in the retail cloud: are you asking the right questions?
3. Oracle and webinar guest Forrester explore AI and the future of retail technology
4. 3 best practices for retailers expanding from online to in-store
5. Rewriting the rules of omnichannel retail and the evolution of the store
6. The war for retail talent: breaking down the search for workers
7. The new retail map: utilizing contextual intelligence to meet consumers where they are
8. Adapting store experiences for post-Covid realities
9. Rethinking retail inventory and assortments for a post-COVID environment
10. From cash to contactless: accelerating payment technology to meet consumer demand

Oracle Retail Zoom Zone

Watch our on-demand virtual series showcasing a portfolio update and digital demonstrations of Oracle Retail solutions. Take a closer look at Oracle and how cloud technologies can help unleash business agility and unlock new possibilities. Session topics include:

• A Day in the Life for Store Operations
• Creating Transparency with Order Management & Delivery
• Attract and Retain Customers in Retail
• Enhance Customer Service with Store Inventory Management
• End to End Inventory Management
• Pre-season and in-season Fashion
• Hit the Mark with Assortment Management
• Balancing Price and Margin
• Retail Settlement and a Quick Financial Close
• Sustainability and the Future of Retail
• Retail Advanced Analytics
• Smarter Supply Chain
• Know Your Customer's Desires to Better Serve Them

Watch on-demand.