https://www.socictopen.socict.org/files/original/04c7d88ac3c6ec82a62d08e1bc575023.pdf ebd9aa0a10a7f44e6c7cbd3610c16410 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coronavirus Description An account of the resource Dominio científico: Coronavirus Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Profound Nature of Linkage Between the Impact of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Retail on Buying and Consumer Behavior and Consumers’ Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence on the Path to the Next Normal Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Theodor Purcarea, Valeriu Ioan-Franc, Ştefan-Alexandru Ionescu, Ioan Matei Purcărea Description An account of the resource The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of the use of Artificial Intelligence inretail on buying and consumer behavior, better understanding how consumers perceiveArtificial Intelligence on the path to the Next Normal. The consumer-technology partnershipis confirming the reinvention of the retail organizations, retailers’ advancement on this pathinvolving acting on the new patterns and behaviors by considering the new technologyadoption within the context of COVID-19. Based on a comprehensive literature review onthe impact of Artificial Intelligence in retail a quantitative research design was employed todemonstrate the nature of linkage between this impact and consumers’ perceptions ofArtificial Intelligence. The data collection was performed through survey conducted in asupermarket chain in Romania, consumers’ perceptions of Artificial Intelligence beingconsidered a central metric for assessing the successful use of Artificial Intelligence-enabledinteractions within the context of the offline-online convergence confirmed by the Store ofthe Future, and consumers’ use of mobile phones in their Omni channel shopping journey.The present research, whose results were validated, offers retailers deep consumer insightswith regard to the buying and consumer behavior change in Romania on the path to the NextNormal Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021 Subject The topic of the resource artificial intelligence, retail, buying and consumer behaviour, consumers’ perceptions of artificial intelligence, store of the future, next normal Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 10.24818/EA/2021/56/9 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Amfiteatru Economic Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Business, Economics as a science