The retail and ecommerce vertical has shown tremendous adoption of data fabric solutions and services. Retail and ecommerce organizations depend on data fabric solutions which enable business users and decision-makers with access to business data using data exploration, data integration, appropriate analytics tools, and data visualization technologies. It enables them to perform demand analysis and business discovery, and gather executive insights in real-time. The retail and ecommerce vertical is an extensively consumer-oriented segment, where the provision of a seamless and secure customer experience is necessarily required. It is predicted that data fabric will have a very high impact on the retail and ecommerce industry in the near future. There are various drivers which are responsible for the tremendous use of data fabric in the retail environment such as increasing use of IoT devices, the need to curtail losses and frauds, optimization of the current market scenario, and attending to the diverse target market. Retail chains can deploy data fabric solutions and empower their employees to analyze data and gather insights into customers, products, and transactions across different channels and geographical markets. Data scientists working in the retail and wholesale market can combine data from various sources such as inventory, supply chain, warehouse, and retailers to create a flexible repository which help in the creation of data science sandboxes. This can be used for experimentation and modeling.