If you go shopping in any toy store, you can see clearly the different games and toys for boys and girls: there are a lot of pink toys on one side of the store for girls; and dark-colored cars, guns, and soldiers for boys.

如果你去任何一家玩具店购物，都能清楚地看到男孩和女孩的游戏和玩具截然不同：商店的一侧有很多粉红色的玩具，为女孩提供；而深色的汽车、枪支和士兵玩具则是为男孩准备的。

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Scene Two: Man and woman go shopping together on Sunday and they linger in one men’s store and another, looking at the glittering array of clothes and imaging the sweetness in them.

场景二：礼拜天，女人和男人一起到街上买衣服，女人带男人不断流连于一家又一家的男装店里，看着琳琅满目的服装，想像着他穿上的甜蜜。

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Scene Two: Man and woman go shopping together on Sunday and they linger in one men’s store and another, looking at the glittering array of clothes and imaging the sweetness in them.

场景二：礼拜天，女人和男人一起到街上买衣服，女人带男人不断流连于一家又一家的男装店里，看着琳琅满目的服装，想像着他穿上的甜蜜。

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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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