IDG Contributor Network: The death of traditional retail and how data will lead its evolution

With headlines setting off alarms forewarning the death of retail, it is easy to get sucked into the overwhelming stream of information and data. Luckily, there is more than one side to every story, and that data can actually support a more promising position on the future of the retail industry. A recent article from the WSJ calls 2017 “the year of bankruptcies,” with eight bankruptcies since the beginning of the year. The most bankruptcies in one year happened in 2008 when 20