Commerce Futures 2022 presents a vision of the future of consumer demand over the next decade. Key trends highlighted in the report include space commerce, post-death consumerism, paranoid purchasing, bank and spend with your favorite marketplaces, kid commerce, gaming commerce, bucket-list buying, aggregator aggressors, the environment vs service conundrum, brain-computer interface and zero-ui, retailers as media giants, livestream commerce, re-use and re-commerce, virtual worlds, where everyone is master of the universe, we keep on returning to returns, and the race is on in compressed commerce. These trends will shape the backbone of consumer demand and it is imperative for businesses to approach commerce with a more open mind and plan over a much longer trajectory.
