How Retailers Can Reinvent the Digital Flywheel for Agentic Commerce
BCG examines how shopping agents could change retailers’ marketplaces, loyalty programmes and retail-media businesses. Its survey covers 50 of the top 300 global retailers and 100 large brands, alongside leader interviews. In its retail-media section, BCG reports that 65% of surveyed brands expect to spend more as shopping agents become common. That is a stated expectation, not observed future spend. The practical question for advertisers is whether agent-mediated discovery can be linked to incremental purchases rather than merely credited sales.
Image: Paid Media Collective original illustration, based on BCG research