New research · July 2026

UK online shopping habits and attitudes to AI

New primary research into how shoppers across the UK search, discover and buy online, and what they now expect from AI. Essential reading for every ecommerce brand.

The research comes from Morvo, the brand-owned AI personal shopper that helps ecommerce brands turn these shopping conversations into increased ecommerce conversion.

85%

of UK shoppers leave a brand's website when its on-site search fails them.

28%

now go straight to an AI tool like ChatGPT when a brand's search lets them down.

42%

prefer AI built into a brand's own website, ahead of the 34 percent who prefer a general tool like ChatGPT.

69%

want to describe what they are looking for in their own words rather than search and filter.

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