Wal-Mart to send automated shopping lists to its mobile app
Wal-Mart plans to use big data about a customer's usual shopping to automatically create shopping lists for them on its mobile app.
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Laptops to sell for under $200 on Black Friday
Heavily discounted PCs and tablets will be sold by top retailers on Black Friday, which marks one of the most active shopping days in the U.S. Walmart and Best Buy will offer fully equipped laptops for under US$200, <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/210947/walmart_to_sell_sub200_laptop.html">continuing a promotional price battle</a> they have engaged in for years. The sub-$200 laptops have slow processors and may lack key components, but could be effective desktop replacements for basic tasks like office productivity applications, Web surfing and video.
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Tech groups oppose Internet sales tax bill
Several tech trade groups have voiced opposition to new legislation in the U.S. Congress that would require Web-based retailers to collect sales tax from customers.
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Senate report: Phone bill cramming costs billions
Third-party charges on U.S. consumer and business telephone bills, most of them unauthorized by the customer, amount to US $2 billion a year, according to a new report from a U.S. Senate committee.
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RFID tags arrive on store floor as retailers go after ROI
For the retailing industry, the adoption of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology this decade has been one long, strange journey: Periods of irrational exuberance followed by times of great frustration and confusion; expensive pilot projects riddled with technical, standards-based and cost complexities; and a widespread belief among those retailers or CPG manufacturers that were forced into the RFID universe that it is a technology solution in search of a problem.