What Retailers Need to Know About Today’s Hyperconnected Economy

Exhibit A: $1.4 trillion. That's a nice stack of cash.

And according to Forrester Research, it's the amount of U.S. retail sales that will start digitally in 2014. In four years it will be $1.8 trillion. This means consumers literally hold the buying process in the palms of their hands.

Exhibit B: Cisco has found that internet-connected devices outnumber people — and by a wide margin.