# India's Festive Shopping Shifts with AI

> AI shopping assistants boost Indian festive spending as robots help shoppers.
- Title: India's Festive Shopping Shifts with AI · The Economic Times
- Summary: AI shopping assistants boost Indian festive spending as robots help shoppers. Indian shoppers using AI tools plan to spend ₹10,000+ this festive season amid…
- Keywords: india, festive shopping, ai shopping assistants, inmobi, premium spending, mills, tier 2 cities, India's, Festive, Shopping, Shifts, The Economic Times
- Source: The Economic Times — https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/retail/india-festive-shopping-about-to-change-as-ai-and-robots-lend-helping-hand-ai-shopping-assistants-premium-spending-trends-inmobi/articleshow/134456608.cms
- Author: ET Online
- Published: 2026-09-24T08:56:00+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: india, festive shopping, ai shopping assistants, inmobi, premium spending, mills, tier 2 cities
## AI Shopping Assistants Rise
Four in five shoppers plan to use ai tools for festive buys.

> four in five shoppers are actively looking to use ai-powered shopping assistants
## Premium Spending Surge
Three in five shoppers target over ₹10,000 festive spending.

> three out of five shoppers plan to spend more than ten thousand rupees
## Millennials Lead AI Adoption
Millennials show 10 percentage points higher ai enthusiasm than gen z.

> millennials' enthusiasm for ai-based recommendations is higher by ten percentage points
## Urban Shoppers Use AI Tools
92% of urban shoppers used ai tools in past month.

> 92% of surveyed urban indian shoppers said they had taken the help of at least one ai tool
## Festive Spending Rises
Average transaction size jumps 46% to ₹24,020.

> the average festive transaction size may jump forty six percent to twenty four thousand twenty rupees
## Robots in Shopping
Flipkart and bigbasket create ai storefronts for festive shopping.

> flipkart, bigbasket, ajio, and firstcry have been working to create their own ai storefronts
## Key takeaway

Indian shoppers using AI tools plan to spend ₹10,000+ this festive season amid rising demand for robot-assisted shopping.