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Shoppers have become increasingly comfortable using the smartphone or tablet to browse retailer offerings, look for discounts and compare products-whether on the go or on the couch. For moms especially, who tend to lead shopping and mobile trends, the use of these smart devices may have reached the tipping point: Mobile has become more than a nice accessory to augment the shopping process; it has become an essential stop in the path to purchase. Read more at http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Moms-Mobile-Part-of-Shopping-Routine/1009722#qpdE6EZ6QEPTj4Lx.99 

A new startup called Deliv hopes to provide retailers with a new way to please tech-savvy shoppers, by offering same-day local delivery for the same price - or less - than having items shipped. Crowdsources peoples around the area to deliver for it. More about convenience than speed -- time of day is most important

"80% of all shoppers believe that private label brands are equal to or better than national brands in terms of quality"

grocery comparison shopping site mySupermarket is today bringing its service the U.S. Operating something like a Kayak for grocery and drugstore products, the new U.S. version of mySupermarket lets shoppers find the best prices across top stores, including Amazon, Walmart, Target, Costco, Walgreens, Diapers.com, Soap.com, and Drugstore.com.

"According to their writeup, Disney has partnered with a company called Jaxx to create a line of toys that can be recognized by phone or tablet apps, then trigger animations based on Disney's movies or other properties. In the example seen by Reuters, pointing an iPad camera at a set of Little Mermaid-branded bongo drums will cause the crab Sebastian to come on-screen and perform a song by "playing" them. Specific animations could also be used to sell the products in stores, like an animated Tinkerbell who flies out of her box when shoppers look at her with a smartphone camera."

app shopper provides recos on apps; what apps your friends have, etc

consumers browse and follow offline retailers and if one of walk.by's merchants has the product in stock. it will notify the users and they can hold item.

"Northface"

STRATACACHE digital signage solution

- Truthdive reports that 700,000 Droid smartphones are activated daily; - Mobile searches, according to Google, increased by 400 percent in 2011; - Digital Buzz reports that half of all Internet searches are conducted on mobile devices; - Fifty eight percent of mobile shoppers are between the ages of 18 and 34, according to Millennial Media; and, most amazingly, - Spyder Trap reports that 70 percent of mobile searches result in action within one hour.

"The study, which aimed to analyze consumer shopping behavior from the point of sale backwards, found that 31 percent of shoppers used YouTube to shop for apparel. And, 37 percent watched a video on a retail website to make a purchase."

a brwoser add-on that keeps an eye out on prices for products you want. will notify you when it drops to a sale price you would purchase it for

The app posts links to gifts you want in your friends' newsfeeds. 

Kinect for eyetracking