TCS at NRF 2026: The Biggest Show in Retail

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TCS is a Silver sponsor at NRF 2026

We are excited to be a Silver sponsor at NRF 2026, world’s leading retail event where global retail leaders, technology partners, and innovators converge to discuss and explore breakthrough technologies and game-changing innovations that are redefining the future of retail.

Perceptive Retail: The TCS Global Retail Outlook report

The retail industry is stepping into a new era -— one defined by intelligence, adaptability, and purpose. Now more than ever, retailers are focused on achieving their mission-critical objectives, pursuing smarter optimization strategies, and seeking new ways to build customer loyalty, agility, and resilience. The TCS Global Retail Outlook report, coming out during the NRF, shows where the industry is heading in 2026 and beyond. Be sure to stop by our booth to access fresh industry insights.

Enterprise perceptiveness

Key to thriving in a dynamic world

In today’s dynamic retail landscape marked by rapid macroeconomic shifts, evolving customer expectations, and fierce competition, the ability to decode market signals, spot opportunities early, and act decisively is the ultimate competitive advantage. Perceptive Retail™ drives this for retailers by equipping them with the foresight, precision, and agility to thrive in a dynamic market. It involves harnessing next-gen technologies such as agentic AI, gen AI, traditional AI, and IOT for generating nuanced insights from multimodal data (smart sensing), enabling smarter decisions through intelligent choices, and driving agility through autonomous workflows with human oversight.

Meet us at Booth #3375, Level 3, to find out how our comprehensive portfolio of AI-powered retail platforms and solutions deliver superlative customer experiences, profitable growth, operational excellence, and new revenue opportunities. Our business consultants and AI experts look forward to meeting you and discussing ways to help you thrive in an ever-evolving market and achieve your goals.

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Partner perspective: Speaking session - Join TCS and retail leaders

When: Sunday, January 11 | 12:10-12:40 PM EST

Title: Leading the perpetually adaptive retail enterprise: Thriving through disruption

Retailers today aren’t just responding to disruption—they’re engineering for it. Amid supply volatility, shifting consumer behavior, AI-led transformation, and geopolitical uncertainty, forward-thinking CEOs are building organizations that adapt continuously.

In this 30-minute session, Krishnan Ramanujam, President of TCS Consumer Business Group, moderates an engaging discussion with retail leaders on how they are:

Enabling faster, smarter decision-making
Redesigning operations with modular, adaptive models
Harnessing intelligent technologies

Transform into a perceptive retailer

Build the ultimate competitive advantage

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Experience our retail platforms and solutions powered by agentic AI, GenAI, IOT, robotics, and computer vision.

Step into the future of retail checkout with TCS OmniStore^TM, a unified, composable, perceptive commerce platform that orchestrates seamless and personalized customer journeys, enables unified promotions, empowers circularity, and drives sales at every touchpoint.

See how TCS Store Control Tower, an agentic AI suite, transforms stores into intelligent, connected, self-optimizing ecosystems, driving peak performance in real time across operations, workforce, and CX.

Experience the future of retail merchandising with TCS Optumera™, an AI-powered strategic intelligence platform that helps sense market shifts and make intelligent decisions across macro-space, assortment, and pricing. It enables integrated merchandising from planning to store execution, allowing planners to visualize the impact of space and range changes through immersive digital twins of stores.

Experience how our agentic solutions transform traditional supply chains into self-orchestrating, intelligent networks that unify signals, predict and autonomously manage disruptions. With real-time visibility and intelligent execution, it empowers enterprises to achieve agility, resilience, and scalability - making supply chains adaptive and future ready.

Experience how TCS’ Image and Video Analytics Toolkit (TCS iVTK) enables real-time, automated monitoring of shelf health. By detecting empty shelves, misplaced items, and planogram compliance issues, it helps resolve issues and deliver better CX.

Experience how TCS Simulation-as-a-Service, powered by NVIDIA Omniverse^TM, transforms store planning and merchandising decisions through immersive, intelligent digital twins. Convert 2D CAD floor plans into interactive 3D store models to simulate real-world scenarios, analyze shopper flow, and assess the impact of pricing or assortment changes virtually, driving sales, efficiency, and CX.

Experience how our robotics engineering and automation capabilities transform labor-intensive and routine tasks across stores and warehouses. Automate complex test scenarios and roll out new POS features up to 4X faster with our intelligent POS testing arm. Transport pallets and other heavy loads within warehouses, distribution centers, and factory floors safely with our autonomous mobile robot (AMR) solution.

Experience next-generation marketing with TCS Smart Marketing Concierge, driven by GenAI and Agentic AI. Design, test, and scale hyper-personalized campaigns for optimal engagement and exponential ROI.

Experience how customer data can be transformed into new revenue streams with TCS’ comprehensive services across go-to-market, technology transformation, and operations. Turn marketing into a strategic revenue engine by leveraging AI-driven retail media networks and advanced analytics to create high-value audience and optimize media performance.

Experience how TCS AI WisdomNext^TM for Retail helps businesses to fast-track enterprise-wide AI and data transformation through a robust suite of agentic AI solutions, rapid engineering, and a unified knowledge fabric.

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TCS at NRF 2026: Retail's Big Show

Industry

Perceptive Retail: The TCS Global Retail Outlook report

The ‘Next Now’ with Perceptive Retail

Event Highlight

Transform into a perceptive retailer

We’re showcasing

Futuristic commerce

Next-gen stores

Connected intelligent merchandising

Cognitive supply chains

Cognitive AI for shelf monitoring

Immersive retail planning

TCS Robotics

AI-powered marketing transformation

Data monetization and Retail Media Networks (RMN)

Platform for scalable GenAI

Become perpetually adaptive

Perpetually Adaptive Enterprise

About Us

TCS Insights

Upcoming events

Recent recognitions

Want to be a global change-maker? Join our team.

Find the latest news about TCS

Recent News

Industry

Perceptive Retail: The TCS Global Retail Outlook report

The ‘Next Now’ with Perceptive Retail

Event Highlight

Transform into a perceptive retailer

We’re showcasing

Futuristic commerce

Next-gen stores

Connected intelligent merchandising

Cognitive supply chains

Cognitive AI for shelf monitoring

Immersive retail planning

TCS Robotics

AI-powered marketing transformation

Data monetization and Retail Media Networks (RMN)

Platform for scalable GenAI

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