The future of retail sounds hyper personalized - and slightly dystopian

In the year 2040, there will still be plenty of physical, brick-and-mortar stores around where you can go to buy things -- but they will be so kitted out with technology and dystopian-like features that they'd feel like another world to today's consumer. According to a new report forecasting what the future of retail will look like, analysts predict stores to deploy areas like so-called "cold zones," which mean exactly what the name implies. They'll be a literally frigid part of the store where ...