Prediction

Same-day delivery and omni-channel will destroy markets

A 2015 future call revisited in Jim Carroll's 2026 Retail & Consumer Trends Scorecard.

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Publish Date	2026-09-18
Updated Date	2026-09-18
Outcome	hit

The original call

Original year: 2015

2026 assessment

Scorecard verdict: Hit

Hit. Same-day and next-day delivery is now table stakes, not a novelty. “Omnichannel” went from buzzword to baseline expectation. And the prediction that the war would be Amazon versus Walmart versus a handful of platform giants building out fulfilment infrastructure? That is precisely the 2026 landscape. The phrase “the future is all about fulfilment” reads less like a forecast now and more like a description.

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