The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week was terrific. Beyond the gadgets and fun items, there was some very cool technology of relevance to retailers. Some new and some and extension of what I got to see last year.
For commercial reasons I am not going into my insights in detail here. However, I will note that what I saw at CES reinforced my view that we are facing continuing significant changes in retail.
How, when and where people purchase will change beyond what many of us imagine today.
New technologies will be embraced by shoppers wherewhere – city, country and rural. Retailers in shopping centres, on the high street and in rural and regional centres will be affected.
While I have been saying this for a while, seeing new hardware and software last week has reinforced it for me. I plan to share more detail in the next Newsagency of the Future series.