Almost Half of Brits Would Let Bots Shop for Them as AI-Driven Spending Is Set to Top £99bn Within Five Years
Factual evidence
What the source reports
Global Payments research finds 48% of UK adults would use AI shopping agents, with projected consumer agentic spending reaching £99bn in 5 years.
Inspect the evidence
- Inclusion basis
- AI in finance
- Publisher and source type
- Financial IT · INDUSTRY NEWS
- Published by source
- 23 September 2026
- Collected by OneBench
- 23 Sept 2026, 20:01 UK
Stored source excerpt
Nearly half of UK adults (48%) have already used, or would consider using, an AI agent to shop within the next 12 months, according to…
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OneBench interpretation
Institutional assessment
So what
Growing consumer acceptance of shopping bots signals an eventual shift toward autonomous, agentic payment routing and merchant interaction.
Do what
Monitor consumer adoption metrics when evaluating retail payment authorization and fraud prevention architecture.