Shopping Snapshots: May 23
New York Times
THE SUMMER MONTHS call for some stylish essentials you can simply toss into your carryall. Now that Memorial Day is here, what will they be? We've streamlined the list to five items — maybe seven if you have a big bag. Think a cover-up dress, a new ...



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Wal-Mart to send automated shopping lists to its mobile app
PCWorld
Wal-Mart plans to use big data about a customer's usual shopping to automatically create shopping lists for them on its mobile app. That's one of the tools the world's largest retailer plans to use to improve the in-store shopping experience as it ...
Wal-Mart exec: Mobile can revive personal shopping touchCNET
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Walmart: Smartphones Taking Retail Back To Its RootsTwice
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Shopping smarter: Psychology of grocery stores
WISH
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Next time you go grocery shopping, take note of all the small-but-significant changes that have happened in supermarkets in recent years. Stores used to have a rigid grid of aisles, set up to force you to weave your way past every ...



Offices, Hotels And Shopping Malls Brace For Millennial Makeovers
Forbes
And not to be left out, even stodgy shopping malls are being primed to become more Millennial-friendly. While you likely won't see gaggles of twentysomethings crowding your nearest food court, the Urban Land Institute recently reported that 74% of ...

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Apple's iPad dominates online shopping traffic & revenue generation
Apple Insider
The data shows that not only are iPad owners more likely to shop on the Web, they also spend more money, on a per-person basis, than competing platforms. The figures are from a random sample of more than 500 million online "shopping experiences" ...

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Amazon advantage ending: Minnesota lawmakers apply state sales tax to online ...
Pioneer Press
The era of tax-free shopping for Minnesotans is coming to an end at Amazon.com and other big websites. Starting July 1, the state will require major online sites to collect Minnesota's 6.875 percent sales tax. Technically, it's not a new tax. All along ...



MediaPost Communications

Swirl transforms the in-store shopping experience
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
Despite the ability to get most items imaginable through online shopping, there's still a big market for physical stores with brick and mortar sales accounting for more than 90 percent of retail sales. Even tech-savvy Millennials are doing their ...
Shopping App Swirl Adds In-Store CapabilityMediaPost Communications
Swirl Redefines the Retail Shopping Experience with Launch of Industry's First ...PR Newswire (press release)

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When shopping is good for you
MSN Money
"I think it's unpopular these days to say you shop for pleasure because we're supposed to be in some stoic state in this post-recession economy," says Kit Yarrow, a professor of psychology at Golden Gate University in San Francisco who studies consumer ...



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Anne Hathaway Smile-Filled Shopping Spree Proves Blondes Really DO Have ...
PerezHilton.com
It's hard to imagine this is the same tear-streaked face that played Fantine in Les Misérables!! Cameras caught Anne Hathaway and her friend after a super-duper shopping spree in the Big Apple this weekend, and the perfectly platinum gal was nothing ...

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New York Daily News

White dad falsely accused of kidnapping own biracial daughters during Walmart ...
New York Daily News
A white dad who took his own biracial daughters shopping at Walmart was shocked to be accused of kidnapping them. The Virginia father, named only as Joseph, claims cops came knocking at his door after the routine trip to the Potomac Mills, Woodbridge, ...

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