"There's still a tremendous amount of money out there, and now consumers are shopping more strategically, " Pedraza says.
It will make shopping more efficient and give us access to better customer service via feedbacks on social networking sites.
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Aeropostale launched its m-commerce business in June 2010 and recently added new features to its iPhone app to make shopping more convenient and interactive.
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According to the survey, Americans are compensating for the economy by purchasing more store-brand or generic items (39.9%), comparison shopping more online (29.8%), and shopping for sales (50.0%).
The post-WWII emergence of low-cost high-performance automobiles combined with an enormous build-out of highways enabled the era of mega malls to co-locate hundreds of stores in millions of square feet of space making shopping more convenient and for many, more social and fun.
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At least for now, consumers with iPads are shopping online more than other tablet owners.
Internet shopping is more popular in the UK than in any other major country, a survey from regulator Ofcom suggests.
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"The high cost of driving and an ageing population is also making local shopping much more attractive, " Ms Hinton said.
Those who wish to bypass the green can take Zona's complimentary shuttle to Downtown Scottsdale for world-class shopping at more than 2, 000 boutiques and stores.
Among both male and female patrons, customer service, in-store experience, store appearance, and store layout were shopping motivators more likely to be cited than with their Home Depot-minded counterparts.
Provide a compelling mobile experience that people use amid all the photo-sharing, searching, shopping and more that people increasingly use their phones to enable, and the advertising and other monetization opportunities will follow.
At some point a year or two ago, the staff at my local Giant supermarket started randomly greeting me and asking if everything was all right, if I had found everything I needed, if there was anything they could do to make my shopping experience more pleasant.
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One thing to note is how many of the ideas below can be linked by their desire to make the shopping experience more enjoyable, be it through speeding up payments and helping customers skip queues, providing a uniquely quiet and relaxed retail environment, or gamifying shopping by enabling customers to pay with points earned exercising.
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We've got more shopping malls than churches, we spend more time staring at Internet coupon sites than reading Shakespeare, we stomp on each other at 5 A.M. on Christmas Eve to snag that discounted laptop at Wal-Mart, a store that now sells buckets of popcorn, suggesting that shopping for Glade plug-in air fresheners is the entertainment equivalent of going to the movies.
We've got more shopping malls than churches, we spend more time staring at Internet coupon sites than reading Shakespeare, we stomp on each other at 5 A.M. on Christmas Eve to snag that discounted laptop at Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ), a store that now sells buckets of popcorn, suggesting that shopping for Glade plug-in air fresheners is the entertainment equivalent of going to the movies.
The rapid growth of online shopping and a glut of retail space mean more shopping malls will be vulnerable in the future, even some that appear viable today.
The National Retail Federation found that 53% of consumers are planning to shop on their smartphones this holiday season and tablet owners are more likely than mobile shoppers to use their device for holiday shopping, with more than one-third (34.8%) planning to make a purchase with their device.
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Yet Europeans are less prepared than Americans to buy electronically: they are less likely to have credit cards, have less experience of mail-order shopping, and are generally more conservative in their shopping habits.
The city offers more job opportunities, more lifestyle entertainment choices, and more shopping options.
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The redesigned iTunes Store, App Store and iBookstore feature a clean design that makes shopping easier and more fun.
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The bottom line is that the holiday shopping season means more security threats.
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But the thrill fades fast and is often followed by remorse, and then more shopping to feel better again.
Like many consumer apps, Chemical Cuisine is made to use while shopping to access more information on the products we buy.
Shopkick, available in 161 of Simon Property's malls, is among the leading mobile apps for shopping, with more than one million users.
Appliances, home delivery, the internet, 24-hour shopping, and more varied and affordable domestic services have increased flexibility and freed up people's time.
Move out of China's big cities or even into the suburbs, however, and shopping habits become more traditional as income levels fall.
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