{"id":21167,"date":"2025-12-10T16:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/what-to-buy-dad-for-christmas-is-retail-ready-for-the-ai-shopping-shift\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T16:38:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:38:03","slug":"what-to-buy-dad-for-christmas-is-retail-ready-for-the-ai-shopping-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/what-to-buy-dad-for-christmas-is-retail-ready-for-the-ai-shopping-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What to buy Dad for Christmas\u2019: is retail ready for the AI shopping shift?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As shoppers ask ChatGPT for inspiration, brands scramble to ensure their products appeal to the bots calling the shots<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2025\/dec\/10\/consumer-test-drive-can-ai-do-your-christmas-gift-shopping-for-you\">Consumer test drive: can AI do your Xmas gift shopping for you?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Christmas shopping \u2013 some love it, to others it\u2019s a chore, and this year for the first time many of us will outsource the annual task of coming up with gift ideas to artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>While traditional internet search, social media \u2013 especially TikTok and Instagram \u2013 and simply wandering a local high street will still be the main routes to presents for most this year, about a quarter of people in the UK are already using AI to find the right products, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/dec\/10\/is-retail-ready-for-ai-shaking-up-how-we-shop\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e82425460e277e5b303064d27c6815fc23c01dad\/3152_0_5625_4500\/master\/5625.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f3e3d5c8464fa2cbc9ccd9922c67a3db\" title=\"\u2018What to buy Dad for Christmas\u2019: is retail ready for the AI shopping shift?\" \/>As shoppers ask ChatGPT for inspiration, brands scramble to ensure their products appeal to the bots calling the shots<br \/>\nConsumer test drive: can AI do your Xmas gift shopping for you?<br \/>\nChristmas shopping \u2013 some love it, to others it\u2019s a chore, and this year for the first time many of us will outsource the annual task of coming up with gift ideas to artificial intelligence.<br \/>\nWhile traditional internet search, social media \u2013 especially TikTok and Instagram \u2013 and simply wandering a local high street will still be the main routes to presents for most this year, about a quarter of people in the UK are already using AI to find the right products, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As shoppers ask ChatGPT for inspiration, brands scramble to ensure their products appeal to the bots calling the shots Consumer test drive: can AI do your Xmas gift shopping for you? Christmas shopping \u2013 some love it, to others it\u2019s a chore, and this year for the first time many of us will outsource the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/what-to-buy-dad-for-christmas-is-retail-ready-for-the-ai-shopping-shift\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018What to buy Dad for Christmas\u2019: is retail ready for the AI shopping shift?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}