Automation tech shopping is Blooming, Online Retail is Booming, Is This the Human Way?
New trends in shopping have transformed the way we live. Virtual Reality shopping, VR, Augmented Reality, AR, shopping, New apps sprout up daily to funnel customers to both online websites and brick and mortar stores for convenience, pick up, and enhanced shopping experiences.
But is this trend likely to replace our former ways of commerce entirely? How do we distinguish a cool, gee-whiz trend, from a deep-seated human need for human interaction?
Human psychology says that we are social animals. Commerce, and interaction in the market place is as old as civilization. Indeed, it is even considered a corner stone of civilization.
In ancient Greek city states, the Agora, or marketplace, was typically the city center. It was not only where people met to discuss the quality of dates, grapes and wine, or the high price of sturdy slaves. It was also the seat of governance, politics, education, and more. In short, the Agora was an important social “marketplace” of ideas.
Today you can order almost anything online. On automated platforms you can find the exact red shoes you need. You can use an App based search, or a combination of visual search online, inventory access, and reviews. You can increasingly rely on just voice search.