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Consumers Don’t Want Amazon or Google to Help Them Shop

Save the fancy tech, retailers. They’re looking to buy stuff as quickly and easily as possible.
Photographer: Emanuele Ciccomartino/Getty Images/Robert Harding World Imagery
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Stores are spending lots of time and money trying out new, fancy technologies such as touchscreen mirrors in changing rooms and robo-assistants out in the racks to get consumers to buy more.

Shoppers couldn’t care less.