The Future of Retail investigates the vectors transforming both online and brick-and-mortar trading in the next 2-to-5 years. The report begins by focusing on the most important social and economic developments (e.g., ageing of the population, digital divide, smart cities, emergence of metro areas), before examining the up-and-coming technological advances (e.g., last mile delivery, cashierless checkout, visual search, in-store voice search,....). It also presents three "weak signal" cases (e.g., hybridization of retail, at home pop-up stores and non-adjacent convergence) and four inductive future scenarios.
70+ Pages
8 Tech Trends
4 Creative Future Scenarios
Key Chapters:
Social Trends
- The Future of Societal Dichotomies
- The Blurrification of lifestyles
- New Luxury and New Premium
- The City of the Future
Emerging Technologies
- Self-driving mobile stores
- Location-based personalized experiences
- Check-out free Shopping
- Smart Mirrors and Personalized Technology
- AR and Voice Enabled In-store Search
- Last Mile: Fast Drone/Robot Delivery
- Visual Search
- Improved Traceability
Weak Signals
- Hybridization of Retail
- At Home Pop-up Stores
- Non-Adjacent Convergence
