Rather, the rapid rise of mobile shopping and location-based services have set the stage for a new kind of shopping experience, one that blends online, in-store and mobile into a single, fluid system that finally allows consumers to get what they want, for the price they want, when they want it.

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Begin by taking a 10-minute time out from shopping at one of the 11 cloud-like pods placed randomly around the store, which were launched in collaboration with Andy Puddicombe, a former Buddhist monk and creator of modern meditation enterprise Headspace.

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That seems to be the plan Wal-Mart Stores is undertaking as it unveils its new plan for a flexible workforce--one that will force store employees to adhere to a work schedule that bends to the demands of customer shopping habits.

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But there is still something about being in a store, seeing and holding the products and loading a real shopping cart, not just a virtual one.

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