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Nigel TAYLOR Published
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The retail industry is facing an annual tech investment gap that could top £22 billion, “creating an innovation vacuum which not only threatens retail performance, but also risks long-term sector health and business survival”. That’s the stark warning from industry experts at the KPMG/RetailNext Think Tank (RTT).
Its whitepaper ‘Change Or Fail: Why Innovation Is The Business Survival Issue Retailers Can’t Ignore’, suggests omnichannel retailers should be spending 4-8% of their revenue on technology per annum. However, currently, most retailers only spend 1.5-3%, “leaving an estimated best-case of a 5% investment gap based on annual turnover”, it claims.
With retail sector revenues in 2025 reaching £441 billion, according to RetailEconomics, the RTT estimates that this could see the potential annual tech investment gap topping £22 billion. This leaves retailers “significantly underinvested in the innovation they need to underpin their business and secure long-term prosperity and health”.
The RTT also warns this perennial underinvestment in technology comes at a time when retail industry health is being called into question. Data from RetailNext showed that Q3 footfall, a key indicator of High Street health, remained resilient, up +0.7% year-on-year.
However, the latest RTT Retail Health Index predicts sector health will dip for a seventh consecutive quarter, with the index dropping -1 point in Q4 to 68 points, which is -7 points lower than Q2 2025 when the UK went into lockdown and non-essential retail was forced to close.
While the retail industry and the market it operates in “undergoes a state of constant and rapid change”, the whitepaper points to the irony that many retailers are slow to adapt, with widespread evidence including Wilko’s collapse, the demise of Debenhams, Topshop/Arcadia Group, Made.com and Joules, to name a few.
It suggests the market is now in a more or less permanent state of flux and retailers unable to adapt “in terms of their culture, staff roles and contracts and investment in technology, will go out of business”.
And the RTT whitepaper predicts the retail industry will see some more major failures in the next couple of years.
UK Head of Retail at KPMG and co-chair of the RTT, Paul Martin, commented: “Those retail businesses that are around now have a runway for the next three to five years, but if they stand still and fail to innovate, they won’t have a runway past three to five years. Innovation is, of course, a broad topic and is often associated with technology and data, with Generative AI currently the latest hype. Overall though innovation should be seen as much broader than that. It is critical for the survival and prosperity of the sector, whilst at the same time innovating for the sake of doing something ‘new’ is not a recipe for success.”
Gary Whittemore, co-chair of the RTT and Head of Sales EMEA & APAC at RetailNext, added: “Innovation is a state of mind that should be instilled within the culture of an organisation from the very top. However, there are plenty of retailers that talk about the need for innovation but then fail to see it through to actual implementation. The reasons are manifold – politics, siloed thinking and management, and a lack of investment in people and tech. Specifically, retailers need to innovate in the skills and technology that will enable them to understand their customers better in terms of how they shop across multiple channels, more so because in tough times, multichannel retailers tend to fare better than pureplays.”