Retail’s AI Future May Be Bigger and Slower Than You Think with EY and EY Studio+ | WRC 2026
In this Omni Talk Retail interview, recorded live from World Retail Congress 2026 in Berlin, Chris Walton speaks with Malin Andrée, Global Retail Industry Leader at EY, and Steven Bailey, Americas Retail Leader at EY Studio+, about how AI could fundamentally reshape the future of retail over the next decade.
Drawing from EY’s latest retail futures report, the conversation explores four possible scenarios for how AI adoption may evolve across the industry: constrained growth, accelerated transformation, platform-driven disruption, and even a collapse scenario where power becomes concentrated…
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