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The Mobi Smart Shopping Cart Follows You Around, Puts the Fun Back in Shopping

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Mobi is a smart shopping cart concept by designers Park Chan Woo, Choi Chan Young, and Lee Eun Ji, from Seoul, Korea. It actually dates back to the summer of 2019, which only feels like an eternity because of the many nasty developments of 2020. The reason it’s getting increased media attention these days because it seems to be the solution to the aforementioned problem.

Mobi is smart, compact, and highly efficient. Using AI and a myriad of sensors, it would be able to follow shoppers around the supermarket or mart, take them to the location of their interest, help

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Shopping, food top credit card spends in ’20

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NEW DELHI :
Indians used credit cards to spend more on food, groceries, shopping, and pay utility bills in 2020, as spends on travel and entertainment dipped sharply, as per data by credit card payment services company Cred that scanned spends of 1 million members across India’s top cities.

The data captures four periods, including pre-lockdown, lockdown, unlock, and the year-end festive season, across several categories such as shopping, food, utilities, travel, spends on fuel, and insurance.

Shopping, which includes apparel and electronics, and food, which includes groceries and ordering-in from eateries, saw the highest credit card spends through

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CES 2021 Panel: Future Of Contactless Shopping

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Consumers and retailers adopting contactless shopping tech

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CES 2021 Contactless Shopping panel: (left) Laura Heller, Director Editorial Content & Communications, Publicis Health Media, and Peter Peng, founder and CEO, Jetson AI

Since the beginning of shopping time, retailers have continually admonished shoppers to “look, don’t touch.” In the age of COVID, consumers are now actively avoiding unnecessary touching goods in stores themselves.

But, Laura Heller, editorial content and communications director for Publicis Health Media and moderator of the CES 2021 “Future of Contactless Shopping conference,” noted that

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Shopping and banking go ‘phygital’ in the new normal

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Digital redefines consumers’ transactions, but physical channels are expected to blend in

As an avid shopper, Queenie Boado, a third-year law student, used to shop in malls on a weekly basis before the pandemic. For her, shopping helps relieve the stress from both work and school.

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Then came the quarantine, and she swiftly turned to online shopping. “Not only it is convenient; it’s much safer than the usual mall shopping. It saves time and has better prices too,” Ms. Boado told BusinessWorld via online correspondence.

Since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) came into the country last year, consumers suddenly

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Adobe: Holiday Online Shopping Topped $188.2B

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The 2020 holiday season was rife with online shopping, which hit a record $188.2 billion, or two years’ worth of growth, according to an analysis from Adobe Digital Insights (ADI).

That number represents a 32 percent increase over the same time the previous year, ADI said.

The number of online spending during the two-month holiday shopping period was, for the first time, over $1 billion every day, according to ADI, which shows that the predominant mode of spending over the past year because of the pandemic is likely here to stay.

ADI also

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Flipkart Big Shopping Days Sale 2021: Offers On Smartphones, Laptops, TVs, Appliances And More

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Best Deals On Mobiles

Flipkart Big Shopping Days Sale brings in some of the best deals on mobiles. Smartphones like Samsung F41, iPhone XR, Moto G 5G, and so are on a discount at the Flipkart Big Shopping Days Sale. Plus, buyers can check out no-cost EMI and exchange offers here.

Up To 80% Off On Electronics And Accessories

Up To 80% Off On Electronics And Accessories

Electronics and accessories like laptops, PC, headphones, and others are also available at a discount at the Flipkart Big Shopping Days Sale. The retailer is offering up to 80 percent discount on such electronics and accessories.

Up To 75% Off On TVs And Appliances

Up To 75% Off On

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