The Search for Smarter Shopping Continues: New Consumer Shopping Research Unveils Product Content Gaps
After the 2024 holiday season, Lily AI wanted to know – has AI made shopping better? So as an AI company with proprietary data, we sought out to gather the best data we could find to answer our question. The result was a consumer survey in January 2025 of over 2,000 shoppers in the U.S.
We are excited to share with the world the highlights and full findings from that consumer shopping survey.
Check out the infographic below for a quick summary.
You can also find the full report available for download!
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