Executive Summary

The Coresight Research is in Las Vegas this week, attending and participating in the Shoptalk 2019 conference from March 3-6. 

• To kick off this year’s conference, Coresight Research Founder and CEO Deborah Weinswig emceed Shoptalk’s Startup Pitch competition. 
• The competition featured 15 early-stage technology companies, which Weinswig classified into one of four categories: merchandising and marketing solutions; physical retail solutions; fulfillment and post-purchase operations; and, retail e-commerce experiences. 
• Two winners were chosen, one by the panel of judges and one through audience voting. The winner of the judge’s choice was Chatter Research, a conversational commerce tool tailored to collect consumer post-purchase feedback. The audience’s chose smartphone-based self-checkout solution, Rapitag.