4 Trends Driving the Future of Shopping

As technology continues to change how goods and services are bought and sold, retailers must learn to adapt quickly.

According to Jon Stine, global director of retail sales at Intel, we are living in “a world of Guttenberg moments” — instances of innovation that, much like the introduction of the printing press in 1439, can turn entire industries upside down.

“There’s a kid somewhere in a basement or a garage right now, probably had no sleep, on his fifteenth cup of coffee, envisioning a future we cannot imagine,” Stine says. “That’s going to hit us in the next three years, and things are going to change again.”