Product Code: PT-4053
Actionable Benefits:
- Understand how retail venue growth and decline across Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs), autonomous stores, bank branches, shopping malls, supermarkets, and other formats will shape in-store technology investment through 2032.
- Prioritize retail technology deployment strategies based on store format growth, labor cost pressures, price mismatch penalties, replacement cycles, and technology maturity.
- Compare regional retail modernization opportunities by assessing divergent growth patterns across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East & Africa.
Critical Questions Answered:
- Which retail venue categories are forecast to grow fastest through 2032, and how will this affect demand for in-store retail technologies?
- How concentrated is the Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) vendor landscape, and which providers held the strongest market share positions in 2025?
- How quickly will inventory scanning robot shipments and the installed base grow between 2026 and 2032?
Research Highlights:
- Forecasts of global retail venue counts by format, including automotive dealerships, retail bank branches, autonomous stores, big box retailers, gas stations, fashion retailers, shopping malls, supermarkets, table-service restaurants, and QSRs.
- Analysis of major retail format growth trends, including rapid QSR expansion, autonomous store growth, developed-market bank branch decline, and regional divergence in shopping mall performance.
- Forecasts of shipments and installed base for key in-store retail devices and robotics, including self-checkout Points of Sale (POSs), price checking devices, wayfinding devices, ESLs, and inventory scanning robots.
Who Should Read This?
- Retail technology strategists and innovation leaders evaluating where ESLs, inventory scanning robots, self-checkout POS, price checking, and wayfinding technologies fit into future store modernization roadmaps.
- Retail operations executives at supermarkets, QSRs, big box retailers, fashion retailers, and convenience store operators planning technology investments around labor efficiency, pricing accuracy, and inventory visibility.
- ESL vendors, digital signage providers, and in-store technology suppliers benchmarking market share, regional growth opportunities, retailer rollout activity, and competitive positioning.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
This product is meant to be read in conjunction with Retail Metadata and In-Store Technologies MD-SRMIS-101
Key Findings
Whats New
Significant forecasts
- Electronic Shelf Label ESL Vendor Market Share
- Inventory Scanning Robot Installed Base by Region
Methodology