As a result, Americans increasingly are becoming their own bank tellers, loan officers, insurance adjusters, checkout clerks, restaurant order takers, citrus-crop inspectors and mall concierges.

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Just order it with your phone, instead, and then go enjoy the mall.

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Pay your bills with a cell-phone scan, or order a birthday gift off your daughter's wish list, which she made by scanning items at the mall.

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