The Internet has brought about a sea change in how we shop for widely-available goods.
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Taken together, the shifts paint a macro picture of the trends bubbling at the stores we shop.
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How customers choose to enjoy those products is changing rapidly as technology changes the way we shop.
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It's also a permanent shift in the way music, games and films are purchased, and the way we shop.
Credit card companies know a lot about us: they know where we eat, where we shop, where we vacation, etc.
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Retailers are scrambling to catch up with the rapid growth of smartphones and how they're changing the way we shop.
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Digital innovation is changing the way we shop, compare prices, receive discounts, use coupons and pay for merchandise and services.
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We shop at farmers' markets for fresh eggs, cheese and garden vegetables.
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For the first time in human history, we can shop for life partners the same way that we shop for anything else.
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And when we shop small, we not only get great products and services, but we support our neighbors and strengthen our local economies.
There is a long walk through yet another housing complex as Tony brings us to a local supermarket where we shop for typical Singaporean after-party snacks.
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As consumers, all of us could then easily shop for healthcare services in much the same way that we shop for other goods and services online.
KoAnn talks about how this growing understanding of systems, coupled with tighter purse strings around the world, are working together to change the way we shop.
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These insights will ultimately lead to a transformation in how companies plan, design, and manage their physical spaces and how we shop, live, and interact in them.
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Massenet, founder of net-a-porter and the woman who changed the way we shop for luxury, is now busy revving things up as the Chairman of the British Fashion Council.
And it has changed the way we shop.
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We shop in real stores to discover.
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It is about, you know, mostly, though, encouraging folks to be more thoughtful about the things that we get when we shop locally, which is about a culture of learning, but it's also about a local tax base.
We shop on Amazon.com and eBay.
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So companies are going to keep finding ways to mine data to figure out what we need, what we like, what we might like, and how much of a discount they need to offer on Sour Patch Kids to get us to buy them every time we shop.
However, after the opening of a supercentre near our house, we hardly shop anywhere else.
We will see those higher prices in grocery stores and every other place that we may shop.
When it stopped, we looked outside and saw the shop we were heading to - the front of it had collapsed.
By listing some of Wal-Mart's ever-multiplying faults, you have at least performed two valuable services: reminding those of us with a conscience why we never shop there and reminding your non-American readers that America's growing discontent with Wal-Mart indicates that they are not quite the ravenous consumer zombies of popular belief.
"We put them in the shop window, we give them the opportunity to play, then, if another club comes in for them, we split the revenue, 40% to us, 60% to the selling club, " Willie McKay told the Guardian.
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In a short 15 years, the Internet has changed the way we work, shop, communicate, and think.
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