Show Notes
Welcome to IMRG Takes On, the new podcast from IMRG, where eCommerce market expert Andy Mulcahy and the veritable Tom Jacobs take on the trends, challenges and events shaping retail and eCommerce – all with a healthy dose of humour.
For our fifth episode, we’ve taken on the future of eCommerce. Andy and Tom explore how AI, autonomous vehicles, hyper-personalisation and 3D printing could transform retail, while asking some bigger questions about what the future might hold. From a world without queues and Christmas shopping to teleportation, time travel, holograms and aliens, they separate the genuinely possible from the “proper futuristic stuff”...and, naturally, decide who would be more likely to survive the end of the world.
Could AI take over retail and what is the impact on subscription models? Goodbye queues and Christmas shopping: how Andy would use AI to make life easier Autonomous vehicles: Will next day delivery be standard within 10 years? Looking back to the future: what could smart glasses offer that phones can’t? Examples of all-purpose technology to stop thieves in shops Films that predicted the future, and which sci-fi ideas could still become reality? Can hyper-personalisation bring an end to mass selling and endless discounting? The end of the world: Who would survive, Andy or Tom? Uses of light sabers, teleportation, time travel, holograms, dimensions, and aliens
Last episode we explored the past, but now time to take a step back to the future.
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