Only browse the Internet and do online shopping during lunch or other breaks.
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The average shopper plans to do about 36% percent of their holiday shopping online, up from 32.7% last year, according to the National Retail Federation.
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And, so long as you've got the laptop out, you might as well join us in 2012 and do all your shopping the way Al Gore intended: Online, half-awake and fully bloated.
"Our new fourth generation high-speed satellite Internet service is an industry game changer, allowing customers to do more of what they love online, from shopping and social networking to movies and music, " said Mike Cook, senior vice president, North American Division at Hughes.
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"The top-quality malls have continued to do very well despite the fear that everyone is going to be shopping online, " Mr. Goldfarb said.
The consumer shift online that Pichette talked about had more to do with holiday shopping than advanced geolocation services.
"Online you can study the product, ask questions anonymously and do comparative shopping, all while you are listening to music, watching TV or having a quick break at work, " says Langmead.
Users do the same routine shopping and sharing of deals that they are already doing with their favorite online stores, except now they are doing it through the Ark website.
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As we work more and more hours, and as more and more of our social interactions take place online, it only makes sense that we would do the bulk of our shopping on our computer too.
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But even if they are shopping less often, they do have to shop: a situation that could make the registers ring for online retailers.
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