The app can be also be a delivery channel for sales, loyalty incentives, and recommendations based on shopping cart items and past purchases.

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Include a link to the still-open cart, and list the items in the shopping cart and their prices.

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Krause quickly filled her cart with the usual items.

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All of the incentives received offered a limited time percentage discount of the items left in the cart.

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Consumers who add items to a shopping cart are then taken to the company's website to make a payment.

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It could make it too easy for some people to buy something spontaneously or throw a few more items into the shopping cart.

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It was a virtual version of a Black Friday stampeded as selected items disappeared from the shopping cart before the purchase could even be finalized.

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Some purchase items while leaving a few products under the cart.

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U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said Friday the United Nations would allow Israeli and Lebanon officials to inspect the items, which include a military belt and a cargo cart.

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