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Engineering360: "Phone use while shopping contributes to overspending and missed items"

05/07/2019 1:07 PM

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Re: Phone use while shopping contributes to overspending and missed items

05/07/2019 2:13 PM

Sounds like a good reason for shops to have free WiFi; and shoppers to put their phones away and focus.

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Re: Phone use while shopping contributes to overspending and missed items

05/07/2019 2:55 PM

It also enables "price-matching" pricing for savvy buyers.

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Re: Phone use while shopping contributes to overspending and missed items

05/07/2019 5:06 PM

..which indicates correlation between phone use while driving and incidents on the road. Humans just haven't evolved, yet, to cope with distracting stimuli when they need to be concentrating.

The damn things do have an "off" button!

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Re: Phone use while shopping contributes to overspending and missed items

05/08/2019 5:54 AM

I wonder how much time and money went into this study to prove 'common sense' once existed.
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